Research fellows

Roger Svensson

Associate Professor

Research interests: Entrepreneurship, subsidies to businesses, government R&D-policies, commercialization of patents, IP rights and monetary policy.

Among the questions that RogerSvensson tries to answer with his research:

When should the government subsidize entrepreneurs and innovative firms?
How should the system with intellectual properties be designed to create higher welfare?
In which situations should inventors sell the patent or enter the market?
Application of economic theory on historical monetary systems.

New research

Re-Coinage as a Monetary Tax: Conditions, Consequences and Comparisons with Debasement Roger Svensson

Roger Svensson is interested in issues related to the private sector, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and technology development. The effects of government interventions or subsidies to stimulate growth are here important. He has also a great interest of applying economic theory on economic-historical environments, especially monetary policy.

Roger Svensson

Contact

Ph: +46 8 665 4549
Mob: +46 70 491 0166
roger.svensson@ifn.se

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Introduction

Roger Svensson is an economist and statistician, as well as an empirist. He received his doctorate of Economics at Uppsala University, in 1996 and was appointed Professor of Innovations and International Technology Transfer at Mälardalen University, in 2003.

Leading Research Environment

IFN at the top

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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, is a private and independent foundation devoted to pursuing highly relevant research for trade and industry.

The researchers at IFN are united in their belief that economic methods offer a powerful tool for understanding society.

The main research programmes are:

economics of entrepreneurship
globalization and corporate restructuring
economics of the service sector
economics of the electricity markets.

Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and VINNOVA are the principals of the award.

Professor Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the 2013 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.