The Competitiveness Institute 7th Global Conference
Building Innovative Clusters for Competitive Advantage
September 27 - October 1 2004, Ottawa, Canada
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In recent years, Thomas Andersson was Senior Advisor to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), main secretary of the Ministers' of Finance project on the Nordic countries and the New Economy, under the aegis of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and member of the Board of Fora, a think-tank at the Danish Ministry of Industry, and of the International Advisory Board of Umeå School of Business and Economics.
Thomas Andersson was previously Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD. Three divisions of that Directorate fell under his responsibility - the Industry Division, the Division for Economic and Statistical Analysis and the Division for Transport. He also coordinated the technology part of the OECD Jobs Study, the OECD Growth Study and work with the World Bank on building knowledge-based economies.
Prior to the OECD, Thomas Andersson was Assistant Under-secretary and head of the Structural Policy Secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Commerce. During these years, he represented Sweden in the European Commission's Meetings for Director Generals for Industry. He has also headed the international research programme of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm (IUI). Thomas Andersson holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, has published widely on international economics and industrial organisation and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, and University of Sao Paulo.
Thomas Andersson
President, IKED
Prof. Thomas Andersson is President of the board for the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED) and also President of Jönköping University. Among other assignments, he is Vice President of the International Network of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (INSME) and serves on the International Advisory Committee of the Competitiveness Institute and on the International Advisory Board of World Knowledge Forum, Korea.In recent years, Thomas Andersson was Senior Advisor to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), main secretary of the Ministers' of Finance project on the Nordic countries and the New Economy, under the aegis of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and member of the Board of Fora, a think-tank at the Danish Ministry of Industry, and of the International Advisory Board of Umeå School of Business and Economics.
Thomas Andersson was previously Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD. Three divisions of that Directorate fell under his responsibility - the Industry Division, the Division for Economic and Statistical Analysis and the Division for Transport. He also coordinated the technology part of the OECD Jobs Study, the OECD Growth Study and work with the World Bank on building knowledge-based economies.
Prior to the OECD, Thomas Andersson was Assistant Under-secretary and head of the Structural Policy Secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Commerce. During these years, he represented Sweden in the European Commission's Meetings for Director Generals for Industry. He has also headed the international research programme of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm (IUI). Thomas Andersson holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics, has published widely on international economics and industrial organisation and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, and University of Sao Paulo.
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