Name
Laursen
First Name
Keld
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Keld Laursen is professor of the economics and management of innovation at the Copenhagen Business School. He received his MSc degree from SPRU at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom (1994) and got his PhD from the University of Aalborg in Denmark in 1998. Laursen serves on the executive committee of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID), the Academic Council of Copenhagen Business School, and is a member of the Danish Social Science Research Council, where he serves as chairman of the economics section. He has organized and co-organized a number of international conferences, including several vintages of the DRUID Summer Conference and the CCC’s (Consortium for Cooperation and Competition) Sixteenth Annual Colloquium for Doctoral Student Research which was held at Copenhagen Business School in 2009. He is research leader of the CBS Elite Center on Open Innovation with 8 faculty members associated.
Area of expertise
Professor Laursen’s primary area of expertise is in how firms manage innovation to gain competitive advantage with special attention paid to how firms can benefit from participating in open or distributed innovation processes beyond firm boundaries, and to related appropriability problems emerging in the process. He is also interested in the application of organizational “high performance” work practices and the provision of incentives within firms, and in how these practices and incentives matter to firms’ innovative performance. He has published articles in journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change and Strategic Management Journal.
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