Director and Steering committee
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gothenburg has appointed ten researchers, who are active both at the University of Gothenburg and internationally, to be members of the steering committee.
Director of Gothenburg U-GOT KIES
Maureen McKelvey, Professor in Industrial Management
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.
Olof Zaring, (chairperson), Associate Professor, Department of Economy and Society. School of Business, Economics and Law. University of Gothenburg.
Guido Buenstorf, Professor of Economics, University of Kassel.
Martin Henning, Professor of Economic Geography. Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Associate Professor of Innovation Management, Aalborg University. Researcher in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management of Intellectual Assets, University of Gothenburg.
Nathalie Lazaric, Professor of Economics, CNRS (Le centre national de la recherce scientifique), GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis.
Maureen McKelvey, Professor of Industrial Management. Department of Economy and Society. School of Business, Economics and Law. University of Gothenburg.
Elena Raviola, Professor of Design Management. Design Unit, HDK-Valand, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
Rögnvaldur Saemundsson, Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland. Researcher in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management of Intellectual Assets, University of Gothenburg
Stefan Szücs, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Science, University of Gothenburg
Björn Remneland Wikhamn, Professor of Management and Organization, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.