Dr Erik Stam

 

Associate Professor, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University

 

Fellow, Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR)

 

AIM Fellow, University of Cambridge

 

Research Fellow, Economic Geography, Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht, Utrecht University

 

Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics - Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group

 

Associate Editor, Small Business Economics

 

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Education

 

M.Sc. (1998) Economics and Geography, Utrecht University
Ph.D. (2003) Utrecht University

 

 

Fields of interest

 

Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Industrial and Regional Dynamics

Innovation Policy

 

 

Current research projects

 

Innovation Policy (WRR) 

Markets, State and Society (WRR) (2009 Prize Economics of Governance)

The geography of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

Knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Cambridgeshire (EPSRC-ESRC Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge)

New firm growth (Longitudinal analysis of new firm growth; Spin-offs; Innovation and firm dynamics)

Entrepreneurial consequences of firm exit (Firm exit and serial entrepreneurship)

 

 

Publications (ISI Web of Knowledge; IDEAS; Google Scholar)

 

 

Academic Memberships

 

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)

European Network on the Economics of the Firm (ENEF)

International Schumpeter Society (ISS)

Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde (KVS)

Sloan Industry Studies Program

Strategic Management Society (SMS)

 


Last update: 14 December 2009