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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)
- Tavassoli, S.,Karlsson, C. (2018). (In Press) The role of regional context on innovation persistency of firms In: Papers in Regional Science, , 1 - 25
- Tavassoli, S. (2018). The role of product innovation on export behavior of firms: Is it innovation input or innovation output that matters? In: European Journal of Innovation Management, 21, 294 - 314
- Tavassoli, S.,Bengtsson, L.,Karlsson, C. (2017). Strategic entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers: spatial and aspatial perspectives In: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 13, 233 - 249
- Tavassoli, S.,Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (2016). Survival of entrepreneurial firms: the role of agglomeration externalities In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 28, 746 - 767
- Karlsson, C.,Tavassoli, S. (2016). Innovation strategies of firms: What strategies and why? In: Journal of Technology Transfer, 41, 1483 - 1506
- Tavassoli, S.,Karlsson, C. (2016). Innovation strategies and firm performance: Simple or complex strategies? In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 25, 631 - 650
- Tavassoli, S.,Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (2016). Survival of knowledge intensive business service firms: The role of agglomeration externalities In: Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness, Routledge, New York, United States
- Kianian, B.,Tavassoli, S.,Larsson, T. (2015). The role of additive manufacturing technology in job creation: an exploratory case study of suppliers of additive manufacturing in Sweden In: Procedia CIRP, 26, 93 - 98
- Kianian, B.,Tavassoli, S.,Larsson, T.,Diegel, O. (2015). The adoption of additive manufacturing technology in Sweden In: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 2, 152 - 158
- Feldman, M.,Tavassoli, S. (2015). Something new: Where do new industries come from? In: The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness, Oxford University Press, New York, United Kingdom
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