Mats Benner

Professor

Vice Dean for Research, School of Economics and Management

Visiting professor, Uppsala University, Spring 2012

PhD Sociology (Lund)

I am specialized in research policy, in particular policy formation and implementation, in Sweden and in other countries. I have also studied research organization, especially the management of large-scale research groups, as well as leadership and organizational change within the academic system. This has also included a number of evaluation tasks, for universities and funding organizations. Another important area in my work is the sociology of welfare and growth policies, especially the interaction between the regulation of welfare and the dynamics of an open and advanced economy.

• Centre for Knowledge Governance Studies. The Knowledge Foundation, 2010-. Coordinator.

• The research policy laboratory: interactions between politics and research, 1960-2007. Swedish Research Council, 2008-2010. Project leader.

• Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Creation: Dynamics in Globalising Learning Economies. Linnaeus Grant, Swedish Research Council, 2006-2015. PI

“Head in the Clouds and Feet on the Ground: Research Priority Setting in China”, Science and Public Policy (in press, 2012, with Liu Li and Sylvia Schwaag Serger)

“Innovation policy in hard times: Lessons from the Nordic countries”, European Planning Studies (in press, 2012)

“A global knowledge economy?: biopolitical strategies in India and the European Union”, Journal of Sociology, 47 (2011): 163-180 (with Hans Löfgren)

“Entrepreneurship research – a history of scholarly migration”, in H. Landström and F. Lohrke (eds.), Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2010 (with Hans Landström)

“Large-scale international facilities within the organization: MAX lab within Lund University”, Learning to Compete in European Universities: From Social Institution to Knowledge Business (ed. by M. McKelvey & M. Holmén). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009. (with Olof Hallonsten)

“Pathways to the entrepreneurial university: towards a global convergence”, Science and Public Policy, 35 (9), 681-695, 2008 (with Henry Etzkowitz et. al)

Kunskap. Malmö: Liber 2011. (with Sven Widmalm)

Kunskapsnation i kris? Politik, pengar och makt i svensk forskning. Nora: Nya Doxa 2008.

Forska lagom och vara världsbäst? Sverige inför forskningens globala strukturomvandling. Stockholm: SNS 2008. (edited with Sverker Sörlin)