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Jan Fagerberg
Jan Fagerberg has a part-time affiliation with CIRCLE. He is also professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). Previous affiliations include the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs (NUPI) and the University of Aalborg. Fagerberg studied history, political science and economics before he graduated from the University of Bergen in 1980 with a degree in economics. He holds a D. Phil. from the University of Sussex (1989), where he was at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU).
In his research Fagerberg has particularly focused on the relationship between technology (innovation and diffusion) on the one hand and competitiveness and economic growth on the other. He has published extensively on these and related topics in books and journals. During the period 1996-1999 Fagerberg was one of the co-ordinators of a large European project "Technology, Economic Integration and Social Cohesion (TEIS)" funded by European Commission (in which more than 50 European researchers and 15 different institutions took part). This work resulted in 1999 in the publication of the book “The Economic Challenge for Europe: Adapting to Innovation Based Growth” (Edward Elgar) edited by Fagerberg, Paolo Guerrieri and Bart Verspagen. More recent initiatives of his have been the international “Innovation Studies Network”, which Fagerberg initiated in 1999 with the support of the Norwegian Research Council, and the TEARI project (2002-2004), supported by the European Commission. The latter, which aimed at producing an authoritative survey of the role of innovation in modern societies, led in 2004 to the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation at Oxford University Press, edited by Fagerberg, David Mowery and Richard Nelson. Between 2003 and 2008 Fagerberg led a large scale research effort funded by the Norwegian Research Council on the working of the Norwegian innovation system, the outcome of which is in the process of being published as book by Oxford University Press. During 2007-8 he headed a cross-disciplinary research group focusing on "Understanding Innovation" at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.
Fagerberg is an associate editor of the journal "Structural Change and Economic Dynamics" and on the board of the journals "Evolutionary Economics", "Industry and Innovation", "Research Policy" and “Technology Analysis & Strategic Management”. He is an assigned professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Aalborg University and has been an honorary fellow of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Vice-President of the Joseph Schumpeter Society. Fagerberg has been visiting professor at several foreign universities including the University of California San Diego, the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris XIII, Copenhagen Business School and the Technical University of Lisbon (where he was a “Gulbenkian Professor”). He has served on several committees in Norway and elsewhere, including the Norwegian Research Council and the European Science Foundation, and has been a consultant to the European Commission, the OECD and the United Nations.
Some recent publications
Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D. and Verspagen, B. (eds.) (forthcoming). Innovation in Norway, in Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D. and Verspagen, B. (eds.) Innovation, Path Dependency and Policy: The Norwegian case, Oxford University Press (forthcoming January 2009)
Fagerberg, J. and Srholec, M. (2008) National Innovation systems, capabilities and economic development, Research Policy, 37: 1417-1435
Fagerberg, J., Srholec, M. and Knell, M. 2007. The Competitiveness of Nations: Why Some Countries Prosper While Others Fall Behind?, World Development, 35 (10): 1595-1620.
Fagerberg, J. and Verspagen, B. 2007. Innovation, growth and economic development: have the conditions for catch-up changed?, International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 1 (1): 13-33.
Fagerberg, J. 2007. The dynamics of technology, growth and trade: A Schumpeterian perspective, in Hanusch, H. and A. Pyka (eds.), Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 705-18.
Fagerberg, J. 2006. Knowledge in Space: What Hope for the Poor Parts of the Globe?, in Kahin, B. and Foray, D. (eds.) Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2006, pp. 217-234.
Fagerberg, J. 2006. What do we know about innovation and socio-economic change? Lessons from the TEARI project, in Earl, L. and Gault, F. (eds.) National Innovation, Indicators and Policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006, pp. 11-23.
Last modified 16 Feb 2012
