Anders Malmberg
Professor at Kulturgeografiska institutionen
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 25 34
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 01 75
- E-mail:
- Anders.Malmberg@kultgeog.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
- Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Anders Malmberg is Professor of Economic Geography since 1999.
He is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Uppsala University since 2012.
His research has focused on industrial dynamics and local and regional economic development, with an emphasis on the study of innovation and transformation processes in clusters and innovation systems.
Biography
Anders Malmberg earned his PhD in 1989 at Uppsala University, and was the research co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation Scientific Programme on Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe between 1990 and 1994. He was the Director of the PhD programme in social and economic geography between 1996 and 2005. He has held visiting research positions at Durham University, UK and at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND), Uppsala University 2003-2011.
Ongoing and recent external assignments:
- Chairman of board Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study, SCAS (2017-)
- Board member UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2007-)
- Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (2005-)
- Member of Scientific Council at the Institute of growth Policy Studies (2003-2008)
- Member of the Economic Council, Invest in Sweden Agency (1997-2009)
Previous assignments within Uppsala University:
- Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences (2008-2011)
- Member of the Board for Humanities and Social Sciences (2008-2011)
- Deputy member of the of the University Board (2006-2008)
- Vice-Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences (2005-2008)
- Chairman of the Recruitment Committee for Professors and Research Fellows within the Faculty of Social Sciences (2005-)
- Chairman of the electorate body of the social sciences and humanities (2004-2006)
- Director of the PhD Programme in Social and Economic Geography (1996-2005)
Academic Assignments (selection)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board for the journals:
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Environment & Planning A, Journal of Economic Geography, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG)
Referee for journals:
Area, Danish Journal of Geography, Economic Development Quarterly, Economic Geography, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Environment & Planning A, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, European Urban and Regional Studies, European Planning Studies, Geoforum, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft - Review of Regional Research, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, Progress in Human Geography, Regional Studies, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Transactions: an International Journal of Geographical Research, Urban Studies, World Development.
Publications
Selection of publications
- An evolutionary approach to localized learning and spatial clustering (2010)
- The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion (2009)
- Path dependence in economic geography (2009)
- The contribution of universities to innovation and economic development (2008)
- What is global and what is local in knowledge-generating interaction? (2007)
- Localized learning revisited (2006)
- True Clusters / A Severe Case of Conceptual Headache (2006)
- Building global knowledge pipelines (2006)
- On the Role of Global Demand in Local Innovation Processes? (2005)
- (How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge? (2005)
- Clusters and knowledge (2004)
- Populärmusik från Svedala (2004)
- Teorier om kluster – Var står vi? (2004)
- The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies (2004)
- Spatial Clustering, Local Accumulation of Knowledge and Firm Competitiveness (2004)
- Local embeddedness and international competitiveness – the case of the Swedish music cluster (2003)
- Subsidiary impact on host-country economies (2003)
- Localised capabilities and industrial competitiveness (2003)
- Klusterdynamik och regional utveckling (2002)
- The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies – Towards a Knowledge-based Theory of Spatial Clustering. (2002)
- Does Foreign Ownership Matter? (2002)
- Firms in territories (2001)
- Regional unevenness and geographical convergence in Europe. A review of concepts, models and data (2000)
- Agglomeration and firm performance: Economies of scale, localisation and urbanisation among Swedish export firms. (2000)
- The Local embeddedness of the Transnational Corporation (1994)
Recent publications
- Population age structure (2023)
- Quality and Renewal 2017 (Kvalitet och förnyelse 2017) (2017)
- Brain Circulation And Flexible Adjustment (2011)
- An evolutionary approach to localized learning and spatial clustering (2010)
- The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion (2009)
All publications
Articles
- Population age structure (2023)
- Brain Circulation And Flexible Adjustment (2011)
- The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion (2009)
- The contribution of universities to innovation and economic development (2008)
- Myopia, knowledge development and cluster evolution (2007)
- What is global and what is local in knowledge-generating interaction? (2007)
- Localized learning revisited (2006)
- Building global knowledge pipelines (2006)
- (How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge? (2005)
- Clusters and knowledge (2004)
- Subsidiary impact on host-country economies (2003)
- The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies – Towards a Knowledge-based Theory of Spatial Clustering. (2002)
- Firms in territories (2001)
- Agglomeration and firm performance: Economies of scale, localisation and urbanisation among Swedish export firms. (2000)
- A Cluster Approach to Destination Development - Network Structures and Contextual Factors in the Evolution of the Mountain Resort of Åre, Sweden
Books
Chapters
- An evolutionary approach to localized learning and spatial clustering (2010)
- Agglomeration (2009)
- Localised Clusters in Global Networks (2009)
- Path dependence in economic geography (2009)
- Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness (2008)
- True Clusters / A Severe Case of Conceptual Headache (2006)
- On the Role of Global Demand in Local Innovation Processes? (2005)
- Teorier om kluster – Var står vi? (2004)
- The Elusive Concept of Localization Economies (2004)
- Spatial Clustering, Local Accumulation of Knowledge and Firm Competitiveness (2004)
- Local embeddedness and international competitiveness – the case of the Swedish music cluster (2003)
- Localised capabilities and industrial competitiveness (2003)
- Does Foreign Ownership Matter? (2002)
- Regional unevenness and geographical convergence in Europe. A review of concepts, models and data (2000)
- The Local embeddedness of the Transnational Corporation (1994)