Linus Dahlander

Linus Dahlander (born June 20, 1979, in Sweden) is an innovation researcher specializing in crowdsourcing, open innovation, and online communities. He is a professor at the European School of Management and Technology^[1] and holds the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation.^[2] He also served as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.

Career

Linus Dahlander got a PhD at Chalmers University of Technology. Following his PhD he did a Post Doc at Stanford University in the Scancor program.^[3][4] Afterwards he became a professor at the European School of Management and Technology^[1] where he holds the Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation.^[2]

Dahlander is a leading researcher on the topics of Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, and Online Communities. His paper with David Gann on "How open is open innovation"^[5] has become one of the highest cited pieces in the field of open innovation.^[6] He has published in a wide range of top academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly,^[7] Organization Science,^[8] Research Policy,^[9] and the Academy of Management Journal.^[10]

Dahlander served as an associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal from 2013 to 2016.^[11]

Books

• Dahlander, L., Lars Frederiksen and Francesco Rullani. "Online communities and open innovation: Governance and symbolic value creation" Routledge; 1 edition (March 21, 2011).

Awards and recognition

• 2017 Best 40 Under 40 Professors. Poets & Quants, March 2017.
• Recipient of Jürgen-Hauschildt-Award of the Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship section of the VHB - German Academic Association for Business Research for the best research publication in innovation management, 2016.^{[citation needed]}
• Recipient of TUM Research Excellence Award of the Peter Pribilla Foundation for outstanding research in Innovation and Leadership, 2016.^{[citation needed]}