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Charlie Karlsson
Charlie Karlsson is Professor Emeritus
of the Economics of Technological Change at Jönköping International Business
School (Sweden). He also serves as Guest Professor of
Economics at University West, Trollhättan, Professor Emeritus of Industrial
Organization at Blekinge Technical University – Ronneby, and Associate
Professor in Regional Planning at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Professor Karlsson is also Research
Professor at the Institute for Economic Research, Halle (Germany), and Visiting
Professor, University of Bergamo (Italy).
He is Director of the Institute of
Industrial Research, the Centre for Innovation Systems, Entrepreneurship and
Growth, and the Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
He holds the B.S. and M.S. in
Economics from the University of Gothenburg, and the Ph.D. in Economics from
Umeå University.
Dr. Karlsson’s work centers on
regional and economic aspects of entrepreneurship and growth, including for
example, Strategic Entrepreneurship
and Knowledge Spill-overs, Innovation Persistency of Firms, Extra-regional
Linkages and Economic Growth, and Global Clusters of Innovation.
Research and
findings from Professor Karlsson have appeared in hundreds of scholarly
journals and books around the world. His
most recent books include: Geographies of Growth. Innovations, Networks and
Collaborations, Political Entrepreneurship. Regional Growth and
Entrepreneurial Diversity in Sweden, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship
in the Global Economy. Knowledge, and Technology Internationalization.
