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Maureen Mckelvey
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Unit for Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAbout Maureen Mckelvey
Professor McKelvey’s research addresses innovation and entrepreneurship. An underlying theoretical proposition from an evolutionary and Schumpeterian paradigm is that innovation and entrepreneurship are closely related to processes of creating, accessing, and diffusing knowledge and opportunities. McKelvey's research focuses on the development and use of knowledge at the interplay between innovation management and entrepreneurship with science and engineering. She has publishes in journals such as Small Business Economics, Research Policy and Applied Economics as well as books with Routledge, Oxford, Cambridge, and Edward Elgar. Professor McKelvey has had high level positions in expert groups and written reports, for Swedish organizations as well as for the OECD and EU. Her research and results will greatly impact the transformation of society through knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship by opening up new scientific breakthroughs; building upon extreme methodologies recently developing in social science research; and pioneering new approaches into the unknown. She leads the Swedish Research Distiguished Professor Program on Knowledge-intensive Innovation Ecosystems.
Scientific leadership As an independent principle investigator since 1995, McKelvey contributes with internationally recognized contributions within the field. Her first book Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology was based upon her PhD dissertation and was awarded the prestigious Schumpeter Prize. Two decades ago, her research produced pioneering explanations of radical business innovations based on science. Her later work explained how universities are a central source of new knowledge within innovation systems, and in the 2009 EU Business Panel for Future Innovation Policy, she set forth grand societal challenges and inclusive engagement as the public policy vision. In recent years, international collaborators and McKelvey explicated the distinct theoretical and empirical characteristics of “knowledge intensive entrepreneurs”. She is recognized as one of the international leaders in her field, also seen in numerous plenary speeches. McKelvey’s full publication list includes more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles, including in the top journals in her field as well as in top journals of related disciplinary fields. Her research career is rooted in Innovation Studies and Evolutionary Economics, but there are links to scholars in Economics, Management & Business Studies, Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship, and Science & Technology Studies. Earlier in her career, the field’s publishing tradition consisted mainly of books, the occasional journal article, government reports and public policy projects including direct interaction with policy-makers. Following this tradition, she has 16 books (including some in two languages) written more than 75 book chapters published in academic books by the most respected international publishers.
Scientific mentoring McKelvey’s philosophy and strategy for mentoring young talents is to promote scientific curiosity. She strongly urges young scholars that scientific curiosity is driven by four questions - the “what’s right” and “what’s wrong” with theoretical understanding; the “what if” of unexpected empirics; and the “what’s new” of the results. Her PhD students have all had successful careers in academia, business and government. Three former PhD students have become Professors, two in Sweden and one in Germany. One is Senior Lecturer and two are currently Assistant Professors on a tenure track position at the University of Gothenburg. One former PhD student has a top post in Swedish Government Offices and another is Business Development Manager, Region Skåne. Her post-doctoral scholars currently have academic positions in China, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK. These scholars are successful in pushing forward the boundaries of the field. She has designed and implemented three successful two year MSc Programs taught in English (one at Chalmers; two at the University of Gothenburg), which together graduate more than 100 students annually. This track record testifies to McKelvey’s ability to promote and foster young talents.
Leadership in the field McKelvey was Professor at Chalmers University of Technology (6 years) before being recruited to the University of Gothenburg, where she is now Professor of Industrial Management. She is currently head of Unit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, at the Department of Economy and Society. She has on the last decade led the design, creation and implementation of the Unit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (previously Institute), by building a integrated research-teaching environment together with colleagues.
She is Director of the University of Gothenburg centre on knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems (U-GOT KIES centre). https://www.gu.se/en/school-business-economics-law/economy-society/our-research/research-in-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/got-kies-gothenburg-network-for-knowledge-intensive-innovative-ecosystems
The U-GOT KIES centre draws together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars, across the globe, and orgainzes activities.
The Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship now has more than 20 researchers and PhD students. McKelvey founded on the principle of integrating research with teaching and societal impact, within the subjects of innovation and entrepreneurship. These phenomena engage different actors involved in the generation, diffusion and exploitation of ideas into business and societal innovations, including change of both existing firms as well as renewal of society through new firms and industries. The Institute currently teaches 170 Masters students, who are enrolled in the highly successful MSc programs “Innovation and Industrial Management” and “Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship”.
Local leadership for the university McKelvey has taken on demanding academic leadership jobs. At Chalmers, she was Director of a VINNOVA Center of Excellence for four years. At the School of Business, Economics and Law she was Vice-Dean for three years and also the Director for Graduate School for six years, with responsible for over 400 Masters students in all business school subjects.
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Forskningsområden
- Innovation management, Entrepreneurship, University-Industry interactions,
Undervisningsområden
- Innovation and Industrial Management Entrepreneurship
Utvalda publikationer
Broström, A.; Buenstorf, G., and McKelvey, M. (2021). “The knowledge economy, innovation and new challenges to universities: Introduction to special issue”. Innovation: Organization and Management. 23(2): pp. 145-162.
McKelvey, M.; Berg, K.; Bourelos, E.; Brunnström; L.; Gifford, E.; Hemberg, D.; Hermansson, I.; Lindmark, S.; Ljungberg, D.; Saemundsson, R.; Zaring, O. (2021). Forskningssamverkan och kommersialisering: Samhällets långsiktiga försörjning av ingenjörsvetenskaplig kunskap. Stockholm: Makadam förlag.
McKelvey, M. and Jin, J. (2020). Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Knowledge-intensive Innovative Ecosystems. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishers.
Gifford, E.; McKelvey, M.; Saemundsson, R., (2020). ”The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: Co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system”. Industry and Innovation. 28(5), pp. 651-675.
Malerba, F. and McKelvey, M. (2020). “Knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics and innovation systems” Small Business Economics. 54, pp. 503-522.
Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university-industry relationsPerkmann, M., Tartari, V., McKelvey, Maureen, Autio, E., Brostrom, A., D'Este, P., Fini, R., Geuna, A., Grimaldi, R., Hughes, A., Krabel, S., Kitson, M., Llerena, P., Lissoni, F., Salter, A., Sobrero, M.Research Policy, 42:2, s. 423-442, 2013
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Pairing engineering with medicine: building and maintaining academic engagement in biomedical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
1948-2022
Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY - 2025 -
Rethinking medical innovation: organizing R&D, responding to crisis, delivering health
services
Bastian Rake, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Maureen McKelvey, Fiona A. Miller
Innovation: Organization and Management - 2025 -
Characterizing industry collaborators in engineering research: Academic engagement between firms and Chalmers University of technology,
2009–2018
Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey, Viktor Ström
Industry & higher education - 2025 -
Impact Through Transdisciplinary Centres: Reflecting on Ocean‐Related Centres at Two Universities in Northern
Europe
Linus Brunnström, Lena Gipperth, Maureen McKelvey
Ocean and Society - 2025 -
Ready to innovate during a crisis? Innovation governance during the first wave of COVID-19 infections in
Iceland
Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
Innovation-Organization & Management - 2025 -
From Tradition to Technology through Entrepreneurship: Innovation in Low-Tech Industries Through Experimentation and Knowledge
Combinations
Madeleine Englund, Maureen McKelvey
R&D Management Conference 2024 - 2024 -
Researching together in academic engagement in engineering: a study of dual affiliated graduate students in
Sweden
Karin Berg, Maureen McKelvey
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - 2024 -
Designing university impact on society: Reflections based on the Sea & Society and Gothenburg U-GOT KIES
centres
Linus Brunnström, Lena Gipperth, Maureen McKelvey
Bruncevic, M., Fellman, S. Soderbom, M. and Styhre, A. (Eds) Sustainable World: 100 year Jubileum of School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. - 2024 -
Doing science together: Gaining momentum from long-term explorative university-industry research
programs
B. Rake, K. Sengupta, L. Lewin, A. Sandstrom, Maureen McKelvey
Drug Discovery Today - 2023 -
Exploring How the University Ecosystem Can Mobilise Resources for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurial Firms in
Sweden
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Olof Zaring
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship - 2023 -
Exploring how the University can Promote Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship - technology transfer for knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms in
Sweden
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Olof Zaring
Forskningskonferens om social innovation i välfärd, hälsa och arbetsliv, Malmö, Sweden - 2023 -
Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship, Education and Varieties of Knowledge in
Fashion
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg, Astrid Heidemann Lassen
European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2023, Dublin, Ireland - 2023 -
The case of sleeping beauties in nanotechnology: a study of potential breakthrough inventions in emerging
technologies
Elena M. Tur, Evangelos Bourelos, Maureen McKelvey
Annals of Regional Science - 2022 -
Navigating multiple logics: Legitimacy and the quest for societal impact in
science
O. Llopis, P. D'Este, Maureen McKelvey, A. Yegros
Technovation - 2022 -
The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music
industry
Mark Bagley, Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey
Industry and Innovation - 2022 -
Innovating in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms: exploring the effects of a variety of internal and external knowledge sources on goods and service
innovations
Ethan Gifford, Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey
Industrial and Corporate Change - 2022 -
The co-evolution of knowledge and innovation systems in the dynamics of knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship: A case
study
Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey
AGeSCO Conference, 15th annual, Nice, France, June 2022 - 2022 -
The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime
system
Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
Innovation Policies and Practices within Innovation Ecosystems, Edited By Catherine Beaudry, Thierry Burger-Helmchen, Patrick Cohendet - 2022 -
BUILDING REGIONAL INNOVATION CAPACITY: LINKING KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION
GOVERNANCE
Olof Zaring, Stefan Szücs, Maureen McKelvey
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business - 2021 -
Academic engagement: A review of the literature
2011-2019
M Perkmann, R Salandra, V Tartari, Maureen McKelvey, A Hughes
Research Policy - 2021 -
Developing innovation governance readiness in regenerative medicine: lessons learned from the Macchiarini
crisis
Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
Regenerative Medicine - 2021 -
Exploring network dynamics in science: the formation of ties to knowledge translators in clinical
research
B Rake, P D'Este, Maureen McKelvey
Journal of evolutionary economics - 2021 -
The knowledge economy, innovation and new challenges to universities: introduction to the special
issue
Anders Broström, Guido Buenstorf, Maureen McKelvey
Innovation: Organization and Management - 2021 -
Variety in founder experience and the performance of knowledge-intensive innovative
firms
Ethan Gifford, Guido Buenstorf, Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey, Olof Zaring
Journal of evolutionary economics - 2021 -
The Grey Zones of Technological Innovation: Negative Unintended Consequences as a Counterbalance to
Novelty
Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
Industry and Innovation - 2021 -
Organising an early phase of academic engagement: a case study of interactions between engineering and equestrian
sports
Ida Hermansson, Maureen McKelvey, Olof Zaring
Innovation: Organization & Management - 2021 -
The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime
system
Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson
Industry and Innovation - 2021 -
Forskningssamverkan och
kommersialisering
Maureen McKelvey, Karin Berg, Evangelos Bourelos, Linus Brunnström, Ethan Gifford, Daniel hemberg, Ida Hermansson, Sven Lindmark, Daniel Ljungberg, Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson, Viktor Ström, Olof Zaring
2021 -
Strategic choices in the design of entrepreneurship education: an explorative study of Swedish higher education
institutions
Olof Zaring, Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey
Studies in Higher Education - 2021 -
Managing the Process of Turning Researchers into Knowledge-Intensive
Entrepreneurs
Linus Brunnström, Maureen McKelvey
Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings - 2021 -
Artistic education as a source of innovation and knowledge-intensive
entrepreneurship
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg, Astrid Heidemann Lassen
Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) 2021 - Virtual Community Conversation vol.II - 2021 -
Artistic Education as a Potential Source of Knowledge-Intensive Innovative
Entrepreneurship
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg, Astrid Heidemann Lassen
22nd CINet Conference - Organising innovation for a sustainable future, 13-15 September 2021 - 2021 -
Investigating the scientific contributions of academic engagement with industry:�A study of the quality and impact of publications by engineering professors in electrical engineering in Sweden, 2000 to
2018
Viktor Ström, Maureen McKelvey, Ethan Gifford
Doctoral Education and the Private Sector: European Perspectives - 2021 -
Investigating the scientific contributions of academic engagement with industry�A study of the quality and impact of publications by engineering professors in electrical engineering in Sweden, 2000 to
2018
Viktor Ström, Maureen McKelvey, Ethan Gifford
P4IE Conference - 2021 -
Bridging the Gap: Boundary Spanners’ Selective Network Mobilization across the Industry-Academia
Divide
Valentina Tartari, Anne ter Wal, Maureen McKelvey
Open Innovation in Science conference 2021 - 2021 -
Exploring the Role(s) of Researcher-Based Projects in Swedish University
Incubators
Linus Brunnström, Guido Buenstorf, Maureen McKelvey
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings - 2020 -
Conceptualizing evolutionary governance routines: governance at the interface of science and technology with knowledge-intensive innovative
entrepreneurship
Maureen McKelvey, Olof Zaring, Stefan Szücs
Journal of Evolutionary Economics - 2020 -
Innovative Capabilities and Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Knowledge-intensive Innovative
Ecosystems
Maureen McKelvey, Jun Jin
2020 -
Knowledge-intensive Innovative Entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics and innovation
systems
Franco Malerba, Maureen McKelvey
Small Business Economics - 2020 -
Exploring scientific publications by firms: what are the roles of academic and corporate partners for publications in high reputation or high impact
journals?
Maureen McKelvey, B. Rake
Scientometrics - 2020 -
Promoting Future Sustainable Transition by Overcoming the Openness Paradox in KIE
Firms
Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Daniel Ljungberg, Maureen McKelvey
Sustainability - 2020 -
Moving between creativity and business: fashion design alumni and potential pathways for (not) becoming knowledge-intensive
entrepreneurs
Erik Gustafsson, Maureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg, Astrid Heidemann Lassen
18th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) - 2020 -
Graduate Students as Boundary Spanners: How Academic Engagement can influence Firm
Innovation
Karin Berg, Maureen McKelvey
Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. Volym 2020:1 - 2020 -
Role of local governments in fostering the development of an emerging industry: A market-oriented policy
perspective
J. Jin, Maureen McKelvey, Y. Dong
Frontiers of Engineering Management - 2020 -
Introduction to Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese
Firms
Maureen McKelvey, Jun Jin
Jin, J. and McKelvey, M. Innovative Capabilities and Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Innovation Spaces - 2020 -
Ideal Types of Reverse Innovation for Firms without Overseas R&D Centers: Case Studies of Chinese
Firms
Jun Jin, Min Guo, Maureen McKelvey, Zhengyi Zhang
Jin, J. and McKelvey, M. Innovative Capabilities and Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Knowledge-intensive Innovative Ecosystems - 2020 -
CEVT of Geely: CEVT as a broker and a global facilitator between Geely and Volvo
Cars
Jun Jin, Maureen McKelvey
Jin, J. and McKelvey, M. Innovative Capabilities and Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Knowledge-intensive Innovative Ecosystems - 2020 -
Conclusions
Jun Jin, Maureen McKelvey
Jin, J. and McKelvey, M. Innovative Capabilities and Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming a Leader in Knowledge-intensive Innovative Ecosystems - 2020 -
Knowledge, entrepreneurship and regional transformation: contributing to the Schumpeterian and evolutionary perspective on the relationships between
them
Martin Henning, Maureen McKelvey
Small Business Economics - 2020 -
Exploring the roles of researcher-based projects in Swedish university
incubators
Linus Brunnström, Guido Buenstorf, Maureen McKelvey
Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings - 2020
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