Bastian Marius Rake

About Bastian Marius Rake

Bastian Rake is Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research studies innovation in knowledge-intense industries with a particular focus on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, repurposing, collaboration and innovation networks, as well as in the internationalization of science and R&D. His research appeared in renowned journals such as Research Policy, R&D Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Drug Discovery Today, as well as Innovation: Organization & Management. Bastian Rake has published practitioner-oriented contributions in outlets like RTÉ Brainstorm and the Business & Society Blog. Bastian Rake is affiliated researcher at the U-GOT KIES – Centre on Knowledge-intensive Innovation Ecosystems at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and at the International Center for Higher Education Research at the University of Kassel, Germany. Bastian Rake currently serves as one of the Academic Editors of PLOS ONE.

Bastian holds Diplom-Kaufmann (MSc equivalent) and a PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Before joining the University of Gothenburg, Bastian had academic positions at the University of Passau, Germany and Maynooth University, Ireland. Bastian's recent collaborative research project on science-policy interactions has obtained funding from Research Ireland.