Tobias Nielsén (born 1975) is a graduated economist from

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and

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, publisher and writer. He began his career as a journalist for the Swedish newspaper

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in 1995 and later founded the publishing house/research firm Volante where he now is CEO and publisher. Nielsén is also running the blo
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together with researcher Emma Stenström. In 2009 he was nominated for the "Cultural Policy Research Award", established by the European Commission. In 2013 Nielsén was named one of Sweden's 101 Super Talents by the business weekly magazine "Veckans Affärer".

Bibliography

*Nielsén, Tobias (2013), "Fragile Creativity: Lessons from the rise and fall, and rise again, of Sweden’s biggest rock festival", in Lindeborg, Lisbeth--Lindkvist, Lars (eds.), The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development, London:

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. *Nielsén, Tobias (2013), "Passion och innovation", in Strömbäck, Jesper (ed.), Framtidsutmaningar: Det nya Sverige, Stockholm: 8tto. *Nielsén, Tobias ''et al.'' (2010), Creative Business — 10 lessons to help you build a business your way. Stockholm: Volante. *Nielsén, Tobias — Rydell, Anders (red. 2010), “Noll Noll: decenniet som förändrade världen”, Volante. *Nielsén, Tobias ''et al.'' (2006), The Eriba Model – an effective and successful policy framework for the creative industries. Stockholm: The Knowledge Foundation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nielsen, Tobias 1975 births Living people Swedish economists Stockholm School of Economics alumni Columbia Business School alumni Swedish chief executives