An economist and engineer by background, Associate Professor Christian Sandström wrote his PhD thesis (2010) on Disruptive Innovation (available online here). Based on historical studies of technological change in e.g. the camera industry, the calculator industry and video surveillance he developed new theory on the topic.
Sandström currently works at Jönköping International Business School and is an editorial writer at Affärsvärlden. He has been a visiting scholar at Victoria University in New Zealand, ETH in Switzerland and at the University of Cambridge.
More recent publications concern the industrial policy and green deals. Sandström’s two co-edited books Questioning the Entrepreneurial State (Wennberg and Sandström, 2022) and Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (Henrekson, Sandström and Stenkula, 2024) have together been downloaded more than 300 000 times.
Sandström’s thesis was awarded a three year postdoctoral scholarship from Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius’ foundation at Handelsbanken (2011). His research has been published in some of the leading academic journals on economics of innovation and technology management (more info here). An appreciated public speaker, Dr. Sandström was in 2009 awarded as the best lecturer by industrial engineering students at Chalmers. In 2018, he received the Pedagogical Prize at Chalmers University of Technology for innovative teaching methods.
A Google Scholar profile can be found here.
Contact details:
christian.sandstrom at affarsvarlden.se
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