Ove Granstrand

Sven Ove Granstrand (born 11 August 1944) is a Swedish economist and management scholar known for his contributions to the field of industrial economics, particularly on technological change, innovation and intellectual property rights.

In 1986, Granstrand was appointed as Regius Professor in Industrial Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology. He was also the founder and chairman of the Center for Intellectual Property Studies. In 2000, he co-founded the European Institute of Technology and Innovation Management. In 1993, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a lifetime fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in 2019.

Granstrand has held many visiting professorships at various institutions including Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (1990), MIT Sloan School of Management (1985–1986), and Akademia Nauk in Moscow. In 2019, he was appointed to the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship at the University of Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing . Granstrand has also hosted international symposia in Scandinavia, such as the three Wallenberg Symposia on 'Economics of Technology' in 1991, 'Economics, Law and Intellectual property' in 2000, and 'Medicine, Technology and Economics' in 2007.

During his influential academic career Granstrand has served on many expert committees for the European Commission and on various boards in academia and industry. Provided by Wikipedia