Carita Eklund
Associate Senior Lecturer
Unit for Innovation andAbout Carita Eklund
Associate Senior Lecturer, Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Economy and Society, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.
Dr. Eklund completed her doctoral degree in economics and business administration, at the University of Vaasa. During the university studies, she visited Germany: Johannes Gutenberg Universität von Mainz, US: Stanford University and Denmark: Aarhus University. These visits were inspirational fueling interest for mobility and its benefits for innovation. After, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aarhus, university teacher at the University of Vaasa and a visiting Fulbright-KAUTE scholar at the university of Virginia.
Her research interests are broad:
- Innovation competences
- Female entrepreneurship
Some of the specific research topics include productivity, high growth phenomena, creativity as a source of innovation and entrepreneurship, gender in business, female entrepreneurship, register data, design lead innovation, business benefits from high education and educational diversity and intangible capital.
Dr. Eklund has published research on high growth firms, productivity, educational diversity and intangible capital that is a form of knowledge capital owned by the company. She has worked with both Finnish and Danish register data sources.