Dr Sam Tavassoli

Sam Tavassoli is a Lecturer at RMIT and also a research fellow at Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from Blekinge Institute of Technology and a Postdoc from Lund University, Sweden. Sam was also a visiting scholar at University of North Carolina, U.S, during his PhD program. He is an industrial engineer by basic training and has a master degree in Innovation Management from Linköping University, Sweden.

Sam’s PhD dissertation is titled “Determinants and Effects of Innovation; Context Matters” (2014). The dissertation is mainly in the domain of economics of innovation, while it incorporates various contexts in which firms operate and innovate. These contexts are the evolution of industries as well as regional clusters. Sam has research interest in economics of innovation & technological change, innovation strategies of firms, entrepreneurial firms, and geography of innovation & entrepreneurship.

• PhD: Industrial Economics (Major: Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship), Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
• Master: Industrial Economics (Major: Innovation Management), Linköping University, Sweden 
• Bachelor: Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Iran

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lund University, Sweden (2015-2016)
• A visiting scholar in School of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill, U.S.A (2013)