Göran Marklund
Deputy Director General, Vinnova – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
Göran Marklund is Deputy Director General and Head of Operational Development at VINNOVA, which is the Swedish Innovation Agency. Dr. Marklund is also Swedish representative at and currently chairing the OECD TIP, Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy. He has previously been Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University with the focus on innovation and economic change. Dr. Marklund has also been Science and Technology Attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and guest researcher at the Center for International Technology Policy (CISTP) at George Washington University. He often gives advice to the Swedish Government and to the EU on research, innovation and growth policy issues. As a researcher, Dr. Marklund has primarily specialized in innovation and economic change, globalization, and national competitiveness. In this function he has closely followed OECD and Eurostat indicator work and assisted at the meetings of OECD group of national experts of science and technology indicators, NESTI. Dr. Marklund is currently chairman of the Advisory Board for R&D and Innovation Statistics at Statistics Sweden.