Our people

The House of Innovation strives to push the boundaries of innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology research. We cultivate a learning environment guided by researchers and teachers who are among the most driven in their fields.

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PROFESSORS

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Magnus Mähring

Erling Persson Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Chair - House of Innovation.

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Sarah Jack

Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development....

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Mattia Bianchi

Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, Director - The Garden Center for Design and Leadership

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Roberto Verganti

Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, Director - The Garden Center for Design and Leadership

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Pär Åhlström

Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mattias Nordqvist

SEB Chair in Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, Director - Center for Family Enterprise

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Carin Holmquist

Professor Emerita - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mats Lundeberg

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Ingolf Ståhl

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Christer Karlsson

Professor Emeritus - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Anders Westlund

Emeritus Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

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Pär Mårtensson

Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Martin Sköld

Scania Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Scania Center of Innovation and Operational Excellence.

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Rickard Sandberg

Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. Director - Center for Data Analytics

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Anna Essén

Associate Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

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Holmer Kok

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Ciara Sutton

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Erik Wetter

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Emelie Fröberg

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

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Kathrin Reinsberger

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Roxana Turturea

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Sebastian Krakowski

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mickaël Buffart

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Elmira van den Broek

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Hui Sun

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Giada Baldessarelli

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Sam (Ruiqing) Cao

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Antoaneta Momcheva

Assistant Professor - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

VISITING PROFESSORS

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Michael Barrett

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor – Cambridge University

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Eivor Oborn

Visiting Professor, Professor - Warwick Business School

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Daniel Wolfenzon

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2023, Professor - Columbia University

Ulrike Malmendier

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2023, Professor – University of California, Berkeley

David T. Robinson

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2019-2024 – Duke University

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

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Margo Enthoven

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Rasmus Rahm

Postdoctoral Fellow, Director - Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

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Paraskevi Dimakou

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Charlotta Kronblad

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Eric Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Matin Mohaghegh

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

PHD STUDENTS

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Anna Fahlgård Lahache

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Joseph Monroe

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Marie Bemler

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mary Kathleen Burke

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mathias Larsson Carlander

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mats Pettersson

Phd Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mimmi Westman

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Peter Popovics

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Rebecka Ångström

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Tatiana Egorova

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Uyen Vu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Xiao Liu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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John-Erik Bergkvist

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Riccardo Masiero

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Anna Baturevich

PhD student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Camille Korschun

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Jennie Fahlström

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Sina Behzadifard

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Krystal Zhao-Jansson

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Ingrid Eelde Koivisto

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Qiujie Qiu

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Natalie Aleksic

PhD Student - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

AFFILIATED RESEARCH FELLOWS

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Lotta Hultin

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Keith Goffin

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Åke Freij

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Johan Frishammar

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Luleå Institute of Technology

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Frida Pemer

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - Department of Management and Organization

Andrea Geissinger

Andrea Geissinger

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Mark A. Conley

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Emma Rui Lu

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Jon Rognes

Affiliated Research Fellow, Deputy Director - Leading Healthcare Foundation

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Anders Richtnér

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Mattias Axelson

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Karl Wennberg

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Department of Management and Organization

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Klara Palmberg

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Robert Demir

Affiliated Research Fellow, Lecturer - Lancaster University

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Jonas Soluk

Affiliated Research Fellow - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Jan Pfister

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer- University of Turku

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Robin Teigland

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Chalmers Institute of Technology

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Maria Booth

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Claire Ingram Bogusz

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer - Uppsala University

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Ingela Sölvell

Affiliated Research Fellow, Associate Professor - Uppsala University

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Rhiannon Pugh

Affiliated Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer – CIRCLE, Lund University

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Martin W. Wallin

Affiliated Research Fellow

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Hans Hägglund

Affiliated Research Fellow, Professor - Uppsala University

Ramin Baghai

Affiliated Research Fellow

LECTURERS

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Asser Koskinen

Teacher - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

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Johan Båge

Teacher - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

Fernanda Torre

Visiting Teacher

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Erik Skog

Senior Visiting Teacher

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Joel Smedberg

Lecturer/Data Scientist - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and Center for Data Analytics

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Håkan Lyckeborg

Lecturer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

OPERATIONS TEAM

Erik Wikberg

Executive Director - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Marie Wahlström

Head of Operations - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Lee Malm

Executive Assistant - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Kerstin Wedin

Department Secretary - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Anna Burell Werjefelt

Department Secretary - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Jelena Angelis

Research Grants and Partnerships Expert - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Anders Reagan

Research and Communications Officer - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Gustaf Sörman Nilsson

Head of Strategic Projects - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

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Franziska Ewigleben

Project Manager - Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

PREVIOUS ERLING PERSSON VISITING PROFESSORS

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Olav Sorenson

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2022 - UCLA

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Amy C. Edmondson

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2022 - Harvard Business School

VISITING PHD STUDENTS

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Loek van Kraaij

Visiting PhD student – Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Katharina Schilli

Katharina Schilli

Visiting PhD student

CENTER DIRECTORS

Valentina Tartari

Valentina Tartari

Center Director for the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development

THE PEDAGOGY TEAM

Véronique Roujon

Véronique Roujon

Project Manager in Pedagogy and Digital Learning