ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE Johan Fredrik Tell Born 13 Nov. 1968, Swedish citizen, Married, Two children Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden Tel: +46-(0)13-282599 E-mail: fredrik.tell@liu.se CURRENT POSITIONS Full Professor, Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, January 1, 2009- Director, Knowledge Integration in Transnational Enterprise (KITE) Research Group (http://www.liu.se/kite/?l=en), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, January 1, 14 senior researchers, 2011- (Co-director since 2007) Research Director, Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 2011- PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS Lecturer/Assistant/Associate Professor, Business Administration, Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, Sweden, April 1, 2000-December 31, 2008 Acting Head of Division (Vikarierande avdelningschef), Division of Business Administration, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, December 1, 2007-April 30, 2008 Director of Doctoral Studies Program (Studierektor för forskarutbildningen), Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, Sweden, May 1, 2003-August 31, 2006 Lecturer, Business History, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, October 1, 2001-September 30, 2002 Visiting Research Fellow, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, January 1-December 31, 2001 Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research), Stanford University, U.S.A., March 1-June 30, 1998; June 9-August 26, 2009 Young Scientist, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria, June 1-August 31, 1997 Doctoral Candidate (Doktorand), IMIE (International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering), Linköping University, Sweden, February 1, 1995-March 31, 2000 EDUCATION AND DEGREES Full Professor, Business Administration, Linköping University, 2008 Associate Professor (Docent), Business Administration, Linköping University, 2005 Ph.D. Degree (Ekonomie doktor), Business Administration and International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering, Linköping University, 2000 Degree of Licentiate in Economics (Ekonomie licentiat), Linköping University, 1997
Bachelor of Social Science Degree (Filosofie kandidat), Business Administration (major) and Philosophy (minor), Linköping University, 1994 OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS Leader, Innovation in Emerging Markets research group, 5 senior researchers, 2 PhD students, 2013- Leader, Patent History research group, (with Professor Mats Larsson, Uppsala University), 3 senior researchers, 4 PhD students, 2010- Leader, Managing External Knowledge Acquisition (MEKA), (with Associate Professor Nicolette Lakemond), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 7 senior researchers, 5 PhD students, 2010- Co-director, Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge (EPOK) (http://www.epokresearch.se), (with Professors Lars Lindkvist and Jonas Söderlund), Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, 2004-2010, Approximately 6 senior researchers and 6 PhD students Coordinator, module on Micro-Economics of Innovation (with Professor Luigi Marengo, Scuola St. Anna Superiori), DIMETIC PhD Summer School (http://dimetic.dime-eu.org/), Université Louis Pasteur, France, 2006-2011 External faculty member, Ph.D. Program in Economics, The Laboratory of Economics and Management (L.E.M.) (http://www.lem.sssup.it/), Scuola St. Anna Superiori, Pisa, Italy, 2008-2012 Scientific Committee member, Ph.D. Program in Management, Università G. D Annunzio, Pescara, Italy, 2008-2012 Associate Research Fellow, Complex Product Systems (CoPS) Innovation Centre (http://www.cops.ac.uk/), University of Sussex, UK, 2001-2006 SELECTED ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS Co-editor, Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press (with Professors Stefano Brusoni, Glenn Carroll, Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Franco Malerba, Paul Nightingale and David Teece), 2009- Ad-hoc reviewer for: British Journal of Management; European Management Review; Long Range Planning; Management Learning; Organization; Organization Studies; Research Policy; Scandinavian Journal of Management; Science, Technology & Human Values Member of the organizing committee for the 2 nd and 3 rd international KITE workshops on Knowledge Integration and Innovation, Linköping, May 24-25, 2010; September 12-13, 2012 Chairman of the organizing committee for the international KITE workshop Integrating Knowledge: A challenge for R&D Management, in cooperation with the R&D Management journal, Linköping, September 15-16, 2008 Member of the organizing committee for the conference What Do We Know About Innovation A Conference in Honour of Keith Pavitt, SPRU, November 13-15, 2003 Sub-theme convenor at European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquiums Open sub-theme (with Professor Peter Karnøe, Copenhagen Business School), Helsinki, July 2-4, 2000 Knowledge Integration and Innovation, (with Professor Kristian Kreiner, Copenhagen Business School and Professor Jacky Swan, University of Warwick, Barcelona July 2-4, 2009
Conference track convenor International patenting, European Business History Association conference, Uppsala, August 22-24, 2013 Conference track convenor Knowledge integration mechanisms and processes in organizations, Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Stockholm, August 22-24, 2011 Expert reviewer for research proposals submitted to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Research Council of Norway, Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR), Accreditation Agency Denmark (ACE). SCHOLARSHIPS Wallander-scholarship, Handelsbanken s Research Foundations, SEK 1 million, 2001-2003 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) scholarship, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Forskningsrådsnämnden (FRN), SEK 38,000, 1997 Rut Wallensteen Jaeger s Internationaliseringsfond, Linköping, SEK 8,000, 1993 Scandinavian Management Center, Åkeshov, SEK 5,000, 1993 RESEARCH GRANTS (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR) Developing Research and Innovation in Multinationals: The cases of Sweden and Brazil, joint project with School of Economics, Business and Accounting, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, STINT, 2013-2016, principal investigator SEK 800,000 Protected or Unprotected? Patent strategies of Swedish Genius Enterprises at the turn of the century, 1900, SEK 2.4 millions, Handelsbanken s Research Foundations, 2011-2014 Integrating Knowledge: A challenge for R&D Management, workshop, SEK 100,000, Swedish Research Council, 2008 Management of External Knowledge Acquisition: Sources and Strategies, SEK 3.4 millions, VINNOVA, 2008-2011 Open Innovation Opportunities and Challenges, SEK 200,000, VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), 2007 Sectoral modes of open innovation and policy implications (SEMOIPI): Module III, SEK 432 000, Vision ERA-Net/VINNOVA, 2007-2008 RESEARCH GRANTS (CO-APPLICANT) Knowledge Integration and Innovation in an Internationalizing Economy (PI: Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 29 millions, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2007-2014 Global coordination of R&D Processes, co-applicant, (PI: Associate Professor Per-Olof Brehmer), SEK 2 millions, Toyota Material Handling Europe, 2011-2014 Post-doc scholarship on Knowledge Integration and Innovation, Project organization and innovation (PI: Associate Professor Per-Olof Brehmer), SEK 1.4 millions, Handelsbanken s Research Foundations, 2011-2013 Exchange program with CoPS Innovation Centre, University of Sussex/Brighton, (PI: Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 2.4 millions, STINT, 2004-2011 Project organization and innovation (PI: Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 2 millions, Handelsbanken s Research Foundations, 2005-2010 Innovations and technology strategies in large enterprises: Technology-bases and capabilities in science-based industries, (PI: Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 2.2 millions, Swedish Research Council, 2005-2008
Technology strategies, organization and innovations in large enterprises (PI: Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 1 million, Lars Erik Lundberg s foundation for Science and Education, 2005-2007 Power shift - Mind shift: Innovation strategies in the electrical engineering industry (PI: Professor Christian Berggren), SEK 1.7 million, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2002-2006 Management of project-based firms (PI: Professor Lars Lindkvist), SEK 1.8 million, Swedish Research Council, 2000-2004 AWARDS Best paper award, Knowledge integration at the edge of technology, (with Cecilia Enberg and Lars Lindkvist), the 9 th the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) Conference, 2009, Berlin, Germany Finalist, Coleman Prize, Association of Business Historians, University of Reading, 2002 Best Lecturer of the Year, the Business Students Association (ELIN) at Linköping University, 1998 Named to the Faculty of Arts Sessional Academic Achievement List, York University, Canada, 1993 UNIVERSITY SERVICE PhD Advising Completed degrees Supervisor, Ramsin Yakob, Linköping University, 2005-2009, The Problem with Errors: Solution Search in Platform Development, (currently Assistant Professor at Linköping University, and visiting researcher at Gothenburg University) Co-supervisor, Åsa Käfling, Linköping University, 2006-2008, The Chinese Volvo Sino- Foreign Joint Ventures and Perceived Performance, (currently working at the Swedish Competition Authority) Co-supervisor, Cecilia Bjursell, Linköping University, 2006-2007, Integration through framing: A study of the Cloetta Fazer merger, (currently Director of Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University) Co-supervisor, Cecilia Enberg (Frohm), Linköping University, 2000-2007, Knowledge Integration in product development projects, (currently Assistant Professor, Linköping University), winner of the Oscar Sillén Prize for best Swedish dissertation in Business Administration 2007. Co-supervisor, Rögnvaldur Saemundsson, Chalmers University of Technology, 2002-2003, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and the Growth Process: A Study of Young, Medium-Sized Technology-Based Firms, (currently Associate Professor, Reykjavik University, Iceland) In progress Co-supervisor, Josefine Rasmussen, 2013-, Research project: Investments in renewable energy Co-supervisor, Lisa Malmberg, 2012-, Research project: Industrial design and innovation Supervisor, David Andersson, Linköping University, 2011-, Research project: Patent agents and markets for technologies in Sweden, 1880-1918
Supervisor, Susan Riedel, Linköping University, 2011-, Research project: Patent enforcement strategies in international contexts Supervisor, Lisa Melander, Linköping University, 2009-, Research project: Supplier selection under technological uncertainty in collaborative NPD projects PhD Assessment External examiner (opponent) PhD Dissertation Nadika A. Bulathsinsala, Innovation processes in the energy sector, University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Technology and Innovation, 2013 Arne Stjernholm Madsen, The Evolution of Innovation Strategy: Studied in the context of medical device activities at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S in the period 1980-2008, Copenhagen Business School, 2012 Dajana D Andrea, Organisational routines in project-based organisations: An exploratory study, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, 2011 Camilla Niss, Project Becoming and Knowing Trajectories: An Epistemological Perspective on Human and Non-human Project Making, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2009 Pre-viva discussant of PhD Dissertation manuscripts Marcus F. Holgersson, Innovation and Intellectual Property: Strategic IP Management and Economics of R&D and Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, 2012 John Bang Mathiesen, Learning within a product development working practice: an understanding anchored in practice, Aarhus University, 2011 Hans Pohl, Paradigmatic shifts in an evolutionary perspective the development of electric and hybrid electric vehicles, Chalmers University of Technology, 2010 Linda Gustavsson, Creating Advantage Exploring the complexity of industrial knowledge formation in the knowledge based economy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2009 Markus Ejenäs, Kunskapsintegration: En studie av fusioner mellan konsultbolag, Stockholm School of Economics, 2007 Eva Maaninen-Olsson, Projekt i praktiken - en studie av integrering av kunskap i tid och rum, Uppsala University, 2006 External examiner Licentiate Thesis Martin Wallin, Managing sponsored spin-offs from large firms, Chalmers University of Technology, 2005 Member of PhD grading committees Linn Andersson, Pricing capability development and its antecedents, Lund University, 2013 Anna Yström, Managerial Practices for Open Innovation Collaboration, Chalmers University of Technology, 2013 Olga Yttermyr, Varför blev det (bara) en? En studie av offentlig marknad i förändring, Linköping University, 2013 Henry Lopez-Vega, Open innovation: Organizational practices and policy implications, ESADE Business School, Ramon Lull University, Barcelona, 2012 Maximillian Pasche, Managing Product Architectures A Study of Strategic and Organizational Aspects, Chalmers University of Technology, 2011
Tao Yang, The Effect of Guanxi on the Foreign Market Entry Process into China: the Swedish Case, Uppsala University, 2010 Erik Nilsson, Strategi, styrning och konkurrenskraft en longitudinell studie av Saab AB, Linköping University, 2010 Katarina Blomkvist, Technological Growth in the MNC - A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries, Uppsala University, 2009 Göran Bergström, Från svensk malmexport till utländsk etablering. Grängesbergsbolagets internationalisering 1953 1980, Uppsala University, 2009 Christian Kowalkowski, Managing the Industrial Service Function, Linköping University, 2008 Christina Öberg, The Importance of Customers in Mergers and Acquisitions, Linköping University, 2008 Johan Brink, Accumulation, Boundaries, Capabilities and Dynamics Explaining Firm Growth, Chalmers University of Technology, 2007 Eva Maaninen-Olsson, Projekt i tid och rum Kunskapsintegrering mellan projektet och dess historiska och organisatoriska kontext, Uppsala University, 2007 Charlotta Windahl, Integrated Solutions in the Capital Goods Sector Exploring innovation, service and network perspectives, Linköping University, 2007 Ingeborg Knauseder, Organizational Learning Capabilities in Swedish Construction Projects, Chalmers University of Technology, 2007 Nadja Sörgärde, Förändringsförsök och identitetsdramatisering: en studie bland nördar och slipsbärare i ett IT-företag, Lund University, 2006 Academic position assessment Full Professor, Marketing and Economic Methodology, Copenhagen Business School, 2013 Associate Professor promotion, Gothenburg University, 2013 Associate Professor promotion, Lund University, 2012 Full Professor MSO, Innovation Management and New Product Development, Aarhus University, 2011 Associate Professor, Innovation and Technology Management, Chalmers University of Technology, 2011 Associate Professor promotion, Stockholm School of Economics, 2011 Full Professor in Industrial Management, Halmstad University College, 2010 Assistant/Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour, Lund University, 2008 Assistant Professor in Management and Economics of Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, 2007 RESEARCH THEMES Management of Organizational Knowledge Open Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition Innovation Strategies and Industrial Dynamics Intellectual Property Rights Strategies Innovation in Emerging Markets Business History The Economics and Management of Large and Complex Technical Systems
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING Teaching in Higher Education, Step 2 (Designing, Evaluating and Organizing Learning), Linköping University, 2008 Teaching in Higher Education, Step 3a (Supervision in Doctoral Studies) Linköping University, 2004 Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001 TEACHING Corporate Strategy Organizational Behaviour Knowledge Management Management of Innovation Business History Social Science Methods LANGUAGES Swedish (mother tongue) English (fluent) German (basic) French (basic)