CV First Name: Sam Family Name: Tavassoli Personal Number: 840318-5732 Address: Kiviksgatan 7C, LGH 1102, 214 40 Malmö, Sweden Mobile: +46 (0)765 600 939 Email: sam.tavassoli@circle.lu.se IDEAS page: http://ideas.repec.org/f/pta506.html Google scholar page: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=v3fadxaaaaaj&hl=en Current Positions 1. Postdoc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Studies, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden, since January 2015 (100%) 2. Assistant professor (Universitetslektor) in Industrial Economics & Management, Department of Industrial Economics,, Sweden, since October 2014 (5%) 1 Educations 2010-2014 PhD: Industrial Economics (Major: Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship) (BTH), Sweden Thesis: Determinants and Effects of Innovation; Context matters 2013-2013 A visiting scholar in School of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill, U.S.A (6 months) 2007-2009 : Industrial Economics (Major: Innovation Management) Linköping University, Sweden Thesis: Exploring the Critical Success Factors in Industrial Clustering; SMIL as illustrative case, Sweden 2002-2006 Bachelor: Industrial Engineering Mazandaran University of Science and, Iran Thesis: Exploring Factors which Affect the Trust of Customers in Electronic Transactions in Private Banks 1 In Sweden, it is possible to work up to total of 120%. 1
List of scientific publications A. Journal Publications (ISI-indexed) Tavassoli S.; Karlsson C. (forthcoming) Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance; Simple or Complex Strategies?, Economics of Innovation and New Tavassoli S.; Karlsson C. (forthcoming) Innovation Strategies of Firms; What Strategies and Why?, The Journal of Transfer Tavassoli S.; Karlsson C. (2015) Persistence of Various Types of Innovation Analyzed and Explained, Research Policy, 44(10), 1887-1901 Tavassoli, S. (2015) Innovation Determinants over Industry Life Cycle, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 91, 18-32 Tavassoli, S.; Carbonara, N. (2014) The Role of Knowledge Variety and Intensity on the Regional Innovation, Small Business Economics, 43(2) 493-509 Tavassoli, S.; Tsagdis, D. (2014) Critical Success Factors and Cluster Evolution: A case study of the Linköping ICT cluster lifecycle, Environment & Planning A, 46(6) 1425-1444 Holgersson, T; Norman, T.; Tavassoli, S. (2014) In the quest for economic significance: Assessing variable importance through mean value decomposition, Applied Economics Letter, 21 (8) 545-549 B. Book Chapters (peer reviewed) Tavassoli, S.; Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (forthcoming) Survival of Knowledge Intensive Business Service Firms: The Role of Agglomeration Externalities, In J. Ferreira, C. Fernandes, M. Raposo and M. Dejardin, Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness. Routledge. Feldman, M. P.; Tavassoli, S. (2015) Where do New Industries Come from? In D. Audretsch, A. Link, Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness. (p.125-141) Oxford University Press. Tavassoli, S.; Kianian, B; Larsson, T. C. (2015) Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of manufacturing to western countries. In C. Karlsson, U. Gråsjö, & S. Wixe, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy: Knowledge, and Internationalization, (p.261-280) Edward Elgar Publishing. Jienwatcharamongkhol, V.; Tavassoli, S. (2015) Closing the Gap: An Empirical Evidence on Firm s Innovation, Productivity and Export. In C. Karlsson, U. Gråsjö, & S. Wixe, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy: Knowledge, and Internationalization, (p.281-309) Edward Elgar Publishing. 2
Carbonara, N.; Tavassoli, S. (2013) The Role of Knowledge Heterogeneity on the Innovative Capability of Industrial Districts. In C. Karlsson, B. Johansson, & R. Stough, Entrepreneurial Knowledge, and the Transformation of Regions (p.144-166) Routledge. C. Book Reviews Tavassoli S. (2012) Book review of Emerging clusters: Theoretical, empirical and political perspectives on the initial stage of cluster evolution Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Sebastian Henn and Max-Peter Menzel, Papers in Regional Science, 91 (2), 475-477 D. Conferences Papers (selected) Tavassoli, S.; Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (2015) Survival of Entrepreneurial Firms; The Role of Agglomeration Externalities, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE2015), Adelaide, Australia, 2-6 February 2015 Tavassoli, S.; Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (2014) The Effect of Agglomeration Economies on Productivity of Firms, 17 th Uddevalla Symposium, Uddevalla, Sweden, 12-14 June 2014 Kianian, B; Tavassoli, S.; Larsson, T. (2014) The Role of Additive Manufacturing in job creation: an exploratory case study of suppliers of Additive Manufacturing in Sweden, 12 th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 22-24 September 2014 Tavassoli, S.; Carbonara, N. (2013) The Role of Knowledge Variety and Intensity for Regional Innovative Capability - Swedish evidence, 52 nd Congress of Western Regional Science Association (WRSA), Santa Barbara, U.S.A, 24 27 February 2013 Jienwatcharamongkhol, V.; Tavassoli, S. (2013) Closing the gap: Innovation, Productivity and Export: An Analysis using Swedish CIS data, 52 nd Congress of Western Regional Science Association (WRSA), Santa Barbara, U.S.A, 24 27 February 2013 Tavassoli, S. (2013) The Role of Product Innovation Output on Export Behavior of Firms, 53 rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Palermo, Italy, 27-31 August 2013 Kianian, B; Larsson, T.; Tavassoli, S. (2013) Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of manufacturing to western countries, International Conference on Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing (SIM2013), Lisbon, Portugal, 26-29 June 2013 Tavassoli, S.; Carbonara, N. (2012) The Role of Knowledge Variety and Intensity for Regional Innovative Capability - Swedish evidence, 15 th Uddevalla Symposium, Faro, Portugal, 14-16 June 2012 3
Tavassoli, S.; Jienwatcharamongkhol, V.; (2012) Closing the gap: Innovation, Productivity and Export: An Analysis using Swedish CIS data, 52 nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Bratislava, Slovakia, 21-25 August 2012 Tavassoli, S. (2011) Innovation Determinants over Industry Life Cycle, 14 th Uddevalla Symposium, Bergamo, Italy, 16-18 June 2011 Tavassoli, S.; Tsagdis, D (2010) Developing an Object Oriented Model of Critical Success Factors for Clusters: The Linköping Information and Communication Technologies Cluster Test-Case, 50 th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Jönköping, Sweden, 2010 Tavassoli, S. (2010) A Comparative Investigation of Firms Innovative behaviors During Different Stages of the Cluster Life-Cycle (Cover study for PhD dissertation), 50 th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Jönköping, Sweden, 2010 E. Working Papers (published online in Electronic series) Tavassoli, Sam & Karlsson, Charlie, 2015. "Firms Innovation Strategies Analyzed and Explained," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 396, Royal, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies. Karlsson, Charlie & Tavassoli, Sam, 2015. "Persistence of various types of innovation analysed and explained," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 392, Royal, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies. Tavassoli, S.; Jienwatcharamongkhol, V. (2014) Closing the Gap: An Empirical Evidence on Firm s Innovation, Productivity and Export, CITR Electronic Working Papers 2014/06, Tavassoli, S. (2013) The Role of Product Innovation Output on Export Behavior of Firms, CIRCLE Electronic Working Papers 2013/38, Lund University Tavassoli, S.; Kianian, B.; Larsson, T. (2013) Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of manufacturing to western countries, CITR Electronic Working Papers 2013/04, Tavassoli, S.; Carbonara, N. (2013) The Role of Knowledge Variety and Intensity for Regional Innovative Capability - Swedish evidence, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1317, Utrecht University Tavassoli, S. and Tsagdis, D. (2013) Critical Success Factors and Cluster Evolution: A case study of the Linköping ICT cluster lifecycle, CITR Working Paper Series 2013/02, Carbonara, N.; Tavassoli, S. (2013) The Role of Knowledge Heterogeneity on the Innovative Capability of Industrial Districts, CIRCLE Electronic Working Papers 2013/35, Lund University 4
Holgersson, T.; Norman, T. Tavassoli, S. (2013) In the quest for economic significance: Assessing variable importance through mean value decomposition, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 326, Royal (KTH) Tavassoli, S. (2013) Innovation Determinants over Industry Life Cycle, CIRCLE Electronic Working Papers 2013/42, Lund University Referee task in the following journals: o Research Policy o Small Business Economics o Technological forecasting & Social change o Journal of Transfer o Annals of Regional Science o Papers in Regional Science Invited talks: o Polish clusters and cluster policy Conference, 31th January 2012, Olsztyn, Poland (Key note speaker) o National University of Rwanda, April-May 2013 (course responsible in the master-level course Management & Economic of innovation ) Supervision of thesis: o Supervision of 13 master theses in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at BTH, during VT 2011 to VT 2014. The students were: 1. Michael Thorzen 2. Magnus Karlsson 3. Misato Kogure 4. Rakesh Pallati 5. Elza Stepanyan 6. Anitha Shoo 7. Teresa Walsh 8. Alaguraja.S.P 9. Ezeoma Kingsley Onyeka 10. Stefan Karlsson 11. Erkin Gunay 12. Ekaterina Pashina 13. Abdul-Basit Wunnam o Supervision of 3 MBA theses, at BTH, 2 of them in VT 2010 and one in HT 2014: 14. Driton Bina 15. Saqib Mehmood & Moli Zhang 16. Jones Alami & Chinedu Ngene 5
o Supervision of one PhD thesis, at BTH, October 2014-present 17. Eleonore Huang Vogel Nomination & Awards: o Nominated for the best PhD student poster in Sweden in 2013 in the first Scandinavian conference of Industrial Engineering and Management, held in LTH, Lund University 28-29 Nov 2013 o Nominated for the best PhD student poster in Sweden in 2011 in the national conference of Industrial Economics, held in BTH, Karlskrona 10-11 Nov 2011 Additional research activities: o Research coordinator of Centre for Innovation & Research (CITR) in, Sweden (2012-2014) Participations in Conferences & Workshops (selected) o 17 th Uddevalla Symposium, Uddevalla, Sweden, 2014 o 52 nd Congress of Western Regional Science Association (WRSA), Santa Barbara, U.S, 2013 o 53 rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Palermo, Italy, 2013 o 1 st Scandinavian conference of Industrial Engineering and Management, Lund University, 2013 o 52 nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Bratislava, Slovakia, 2012 o 51 st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain, 2011 o 14 th Uddevalla Symposium, Bergamo, Italy, 2011 o DIMETIC Doctoral European Summer School, Maastricht University, Netherland, 2011 o The Economic and Management of Innovation and workshop, BTH, Sweden, 2011 o 50 th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Jönköping, Sweden, 2010 o International PhD workshop on Economic Geography, Utrecht University, Netherland, 2010 o Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory workshop, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2010 6
Pedagogical/Teaching Merits I have been trained in the higher education pedagogy course in BTH (please see my transcript of records in PhD level). Below table shows my teaching experiences in bachelor and master levels2. All courses are tough in English. Courses Institution Period Level Supervisor of MBA theses Supervisor of theses in entrepreneurship & innovation Research Methods Management & Economic of innovation National University of Rwanda VT 2010 VT 2011 VT 2012 VT 2014 VT 2010 VT 2013 VT 2013 Breadth of teaching Online supervision supervision Lectures, computer labs Lectures, seminars /Online Online Management & Economic of innovation VT 2013 VT 2014 HT 2014 Lectures, seminars Management of IT & VT 2014 Bachelor Lectures Managerial Economics VT 2014 Lectures, seminars Managerial Economics HT 2014 Online communication with students Online 2 In all of my courses, I have been teaching assistant, because I have been a PhD student. An exception is the course in National University of Rwanda, in which I was the course responsible. 7
Languages English: Fluent (both speaking and writing), Persian: Native, Swedish: Moderate Skills Both quantitative and qualitative research methods Statistical analysis software, e.g. STATA, SPSS Qualitative analysis software, e.g. Atlas SQL server (working with large dataset, e.g. MONA in Statistic Sweden) Mapping programs, e.g. GeoDa, ArcGIS Teaching in bachelor and master level Working in multi-cultural groups Committee members for PhD defense Prof. Koen Frenken, Professor in Economics of Innovation and Technological Change at Utrecht University, Netherlands, as the faculty opponent Prof. Johan Klaesson, Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, Statistics at Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, as a member of the examination committee Dr. Kristina Nyström, Associate Professor of Economics at the Royal, Stockholm, Sweden, as a member of the examination committee Dr. Ossi Pesämaa, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics, Vaasa, Finland, as a member of the examination committee References Name Relation Email Mobile Prof. Charlie Karlsson Prof. Maryann Feldman Prof. Martin Andersson Main Supervisor of my PhD thesis Hosted me while I was a visiting scholar in USA Supervisor of my PhD thesis charlie.karlsson@jibs.hj.se +46 (0) 705 820677 maryann.feldman@unc.edu +1 919 357 4043 +1 919 962 0674 martin.andersson@circle.lu.se +46 (0) 733 673867 8