Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard holds a PhD in economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. Her dissertation analyzed innovation, technology choice and technology transfer.

Her research mainly focuses on R&D investment and innovation. She has analyzed how the patent system affects firms’ technology choices and thereby the rate of innovation. Another field of interest is how R&D strategies of entrepreneurs differ from incumbent firms' strategies.

In the area of technology transfer, she has studied how technology spillovers within and across countries affect their relative productivity levels, and how exhaustible resources affect countries’ technology choices.

Publications

Essays on Technology Choice and Spillovers, Ph.D. Dissertation, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, 2008.

Working Papers

”Patent Scope and Technology Choice”, IFN Working Paper No. 792

Work in progress

”When do independent innovators make the break-through inventions?” with Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson and Helder Vasconcelos

“The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy” with Per Krusell

“Exhaustible Resources, Technology Choice and Industrialization of Developing Countries”