Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand

Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand is professor in Entrepreneurship at Halmstad University. She has spent many years at Chalmers University of Technology, where she earned her PhD at the Department of Industrial Management and Economics. Until 2004 she was Associate Professor in Technology Management at the Department of Industrial Dynamics, Chalmers University of Technology.

  Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand has been a Research Associate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Visiting Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex, UK.

  She is member of the management team of RIDE (R&D, Innovation and Dynamics of Economies), a Centre of Excellence at IMIT/Chalmers. She was also a member and the coordinator of the “Centre for Research on Technology-Based Entrepreneurship” (CREATE) at IMIT.

  The overriding theme in her research is technology-based entrepreneurship and industrial dynamics, which essentially means the study of the renewal processes involving the creation and diffusion of technical and organisational innovations. These renewal processes can be studied at various units of analysis; the technical or organisational innovation itself, the firm, the industry, the region and the nation and can, furthermore, be connected to functional strategies in firms, to business strategies and to policy at the regional and national levels. Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand´s specific research interest includes studying new and small technology-based firms and the role of entrepreneurs in the development of companies and economies. She is especially pursuing the research of acquisitions and spin-offs as various entrepreneurial forms of promoting innovativeness and growth. This includes analyzing technology-based spin-offs from different incubator systems, including both universities and private firms, and the role these firms may have (e.g. for transfering technology) in subsequent acquisitions.

ONGOING PROJECT

81650 Små teknikbaserade företags roll i skapandet av nya svenska
tillväxtsektorer
84406 RIDE
84441 Sponsored spin-offs (RIDE)
81469 Constructing Competitive Advantage (EU)
81944 EconChange