Linus Dahlander (born June 20, 1979, in Sweden) is an innovation researcher specializing in

crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digita ...

open innovation Open innovation is a term used to promote an information age mindset toward innovation that runs counter to the secrecy#Computing, secrecy and information silo, silo mentality of traditional corporate research labs. The benefits and driving force ...

, and

online communities An online community, also called an internet community or web community, is a community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet. Members of the community usually share common interests. For many, online communities may fe ...

. He is a professor at the

European School of Management and Technology The European School of Management and Technology, also known as ESMT Berlin, is a private non-profit business school based in Berlin, Germany. The business school was founded in 2002 by 25 global companies and institutions including McKinsey & C ...

and holds the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation. He also served as Associate Editor of the

Academy of Management Journal The ''Academy of Management Journal'' (''AMJ'') a is peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of management. It is published by the Academy of Management and was established in 1958 as the ''Journal of the Academy of Management'', obtain ...

Career

Linus Dahlander got a PhD at

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international lev ...

. Following his PhD he did a Post Doc at Stanford University in th
Scancor
program. Afterwards he became a professor at the

where he holds the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation. Dahlander is a leading researcher on the topics of Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, and Online Communities. His paper with

David Gann David Michael Gann CBE (born 1960) is a British academic administrator and civil engineer. He is Vice-President (Innovation) at Imperial College London and a member of the College's Executive Board. His academic research spans strategy, manage ...

on "How open is open innovation" has become one of the highest cited pieces in the field of open innovation. He has published in a wide range of top academic journals such as the

Administrative Science Quarterly ''Administrative Science Quarterly'' is a Peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of organizational studies. The journal was established in 1956 and is published by SAGE Publications for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate Sch ...

, Organization Science,

Research Policy Science policy is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest. Topics include the funding of science, the careers of scientists, and the translation of scientific disc ...

, and the

. Dahlander served as an associate editor of the

from 2013 to 2016.

Books

*Dahlander, L., Lars Frederiksen and Francesco Rullani. "Online communities and open innovation: Governance and symbolic value creation" Routledge; 1 edition (March 21, 2011).

Awards and recognition

*
2017 Best 40 Under 40 Professors
'. Poets & Quants, March 2017. *Recipient of ''Jürgen-Hauschildt-Award of the Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship section of the VHB'' - German Academic Association for Business Research for the best research publication in innovation management, 2016. *Recipient of TUM Research Excellence Award of the Peter Pribilla Foundation for outstanding research in Innovation and Leadership, 2016.

References

External links

Linus Dahlander
s profile on

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