Innovation Networks (PDF)

Wilfred Dolfsma is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Groningen School of Economics and Business. He studied economics and philosophy, and holds a PhD in the former from Erasmus University. He consulted with a number of different companies, including ASML, Campina-Friesland Food, DSM, and Ford. He published in, a.o., the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, the Journal of Economic Issues, the British Journal of Management, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Social Economy (2005-) and Associate Editor of Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice (2012-). He authored or edited, a.o., Interdisciplinary Economics (ed., with S.Kesting, Routledge 2013), Government Failure (Edward Elgar 2013), Understanding Mergers and Acquisition in the 21st Century (with K.McCarthy, Palgrave Macmillan 2012), The Nature of the New Firm: Beyond the Boundaries of Organizations and Institutions (ed. With K. McCarthy and M. Fiolet, Edward Elgar 2011), Institutions, Communication and Values (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), Knowledge Economies: Innovation, Location, and Organization (Routledge 2008; Paperback 2009), The Elgar Handbook of Social Economics (ed., with J. Davis; Edward Elgar 2008; Outstanding Academic Title for 2009, according to Choice Magazine; Paperback 2010), Fighting the War on File Sharing. (with A. Schmidt and W. Keuvelaar, T.M.C. Asser Press &Cambridge UP 2007), Ethics and the Market (ed., with J. Clary and D.M. Figart, Routledge 2006, Paperback 2011), Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy (ed., with L. Soete, Edward Elgar 2006), Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences (Edward Elgar 2004; Gunnar Myrdal Prize 2006).