CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Kamaruding Abdulsomad Born: April 10 1955 Place of Birth: Patani, South Thailand Citizenship: Swedish Higher Education: PhD 2003: Economic History, from School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Thesis s title: Building Technological Capabilities of Local Auto Parts Firms under Contrasting Industrial Policies: A Comparative Study of Malaysia and Thailand 1960-2000. Fil. Kand. 1987: Economics and Economic History from Lund University. Current Position and University Duties: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Teaching in Innovation Management (Master Programme at Graduate School). Previous Employment, Positions and Duties: June 1996 December 2000: Doctoral Studentship, School of Economics and Management, Lund University. January June 1997: Research Fellow, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor. July December 1997: Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2004 2005: Research fellow, Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Management, Lund University. 2006-2007: Post-Doctoral Research fellow, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University.
Oct Nov. 2006: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. September 2007: Visiting Research Fellow, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Shanghai, China. Employment and Consultancy Assignments Outside of Academia: - Grants, Honors, Awards, Fellowships: 1992 received a Minor Field Study (MFS) Grant from the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). 1994 received Travel Grant from the Research Group in Development Economics, Department of Economic History, University of Lund. 1996 received Planning Grant from the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) and travel grant from the Crafoords Foundation for a short-term visiting research fellow at the Development Center Study (OECD) in Paris. 1997 received financial supports from Smålands Nation Student Union and Kunglig Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet in Lund and the Crafoords Foundation to conduct empirical surveys (auto parts industry) in Malaysia and Thailand. 1999 received travel grant from the Swedish Institute (SI) to conduct empirical surveys in Malaysia and Thailand. 2000 and 2001 received financial support from Crafoords Foundation and the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) Copenhagen, Denmark to conduct empirical surveys in Malaysia and Thailand. 2005 received travel grant from European Science Foundation and Japan Foundation to conduct field work in Malaysia. 2006 received travel grant from the Center for East and South-East Asian Studies to conduct empirical study in Malaysia. 2007 received travel Grant from the Crafoord Foundation to conduct field work in China, Shanghai. 2008 received seed-money and travel grant from RIDE (R&D, Innovation and the Dynamics of Economies) Chalmers University of Technology. 2009 received travel grant from Bromanska stiftelsen för forskning och företagande, School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University. Main Teaching Fields: Innovation Management (Master Programme, Graduate School) Thematic Studies in Industrial Dynamics (Master Programme, Graduate School).
Main Research Fields: Innovation Management Swedish Multinational Firms in Asia Chinese Businesses in South East Asia Automobile Industry Editors, Editorial Boards ETC. Research Councils, Advisory Boards, Commercial and NGO Board Memberships ETC: International Conferences: Paper presenter: The First International Malaysian Studies Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, in August 1997. International Conference on Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer in East Asia, at Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 1-3 September, 2005. International Conference on China in the World, the World in China: Implications of a Transforming China: Domestic, Regional and Global Impacts Auditorium, Institute of Post Graduate Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-6 August 2007. Organiser of Conferences, Sessions and Workshops: Workshop Focus Asia, R&D and Technological Change in the People s Republic of China, 16-17 April, 2007, Bytaren & Gränden Hall, Hotel Lundia, Lund Workshop on Companies in Asia: Innovation, Industrial Dynamics, and Networks in Asia, at School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, 1-2 December 2008. Commentators: The First International Malaysian Studies Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, in August 1997. International Conference on Business in Development at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, 18-19 November 1999.
International Conference on New Global Production Networks in Asia and Europe: Skill Formation and Technology Transfer in the Automobile Industry University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, 1-3 October 2001. International Networks and Research Groups (Memberships): Member of Research Group in Development Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Member of DRUID Society, Copenhagen Business School.
My personal Background. Dr Kamaruding Abdulsomad received his first degree (Fil. Kand) in Economics and his doctorate in Economic History from School of Economics and Management, University of Lund. After finishing his doctorate in 2003 he worked as a researcher at the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Management, University of Lund where he conducted a research project on the Impacts of Globalization on the transformation of the automobile industry in Asia. The project was financed by Fahlbeckska Stiftelsen. In 2006-2007, he worked as a researcher at the Center for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University where he taught master courses in Economic Theory and The Economic Transformation of East and South-East Asia and supervised master theses. At the Centre, he conducted a research project on Chinese Businesses in South-East Asia in an era of Globalization. He joined the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University in August 2008. He is now a post-doctoral research fellow and a lecturer in Industrial Management at the Master Programme with Professor Maureen McKelvey for the Graduate School. His research interests are innovation management, automobile industry, Chinese Businesses in South-East Asia and Swedish multinational companies in Asia. His current research project deals with the relationships between Swedish multinational companies and their subsidiaries and networks in Asia (Malaysia and China). The project intends to examine the impact of external networks or subsidiaries on the competitiveness and repositioning of Swedish multinational companies in the global market. Contact Details Telephone: + 46 31-7865794 Mobile: 070-4185446 E-mail: Kamaruding.abdulsomad@handels.gu.se