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Mr. Per Eriksson

Mr. Per Eriksson is the first Director General of VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems that was founded 2001.

In 1972, he graduated with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Lund Institute of Technology and in 1981, he was obtained a Ph.D. in Telecommunications. From 1980 until 1989, Dr. Eriksson was the Founder, President and Chairman of the boards of several small consultancies in Signal Processing and Acoustics. In 1981, he became Assistant Professor in Telecommunications and Signal Processing in Lund Institute of Technology and from 1981 until 1987, he was the Director of Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology.
During the period 1983 - 1988, Dr. Eriksson became the Dean and Chairman of the Board of Undergraduate Studies in Electrical Engineering, Technical Physics and Computer Engineering, at Lund Institute of Technology. From 1989 until 2000, he was appointed first President of the new Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Furthermore, he is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 1999 he won the Royal Institute of Technology National Prize for Academical Leadership, "Janne Carlsson Prize" and in 2001 Dr Eriksson was awarded the Telecom City Prize of Honour.