Curriculum Vitae

Basic Information

Awards and grants

Full name: Michael Slavensky Dahl
Born: 07/07/1974
Nationality: Danish

Current position :
Associate Professor (fully tenured) at DRUID, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.

University degrees:
Ph.D. in Industrial Economics and M.Sc. Economics (cand.oecon.) both from Aalborg University.

Employment and education

2007 Visiting professor at Department for Social Science and Decisions, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2004-2007 Assistant Professor joint at Center for TeleInFrastructure and DRUID, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.
- 2004-2006: University Teachers Education Programme for Assistant Professors
2004 Assistant Research Professor at Department of Communication Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark. February-July.
2002 Visiting scholar at Department for Social Science and Decisions, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA with Professor Steven Klepper.
2002 Visiting scholar at Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, Faculty for Technology Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands with Professor Bart Verspagen.
1999-2003 Ph.D. student at DRUID-IKE-Group, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Bent Dalum.
1998-1999 Student research assistant at IKE-Group, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University.
1997-1999 M.Sc. in Industrial Economics (Cand.oecon.), Aalborg University.
1994-1997 Bachelor in Economics (BA oecon.), Aalborg University.

Awards

Grants ( > €1,000)

  • Danish Social Science Research Council 2008 (Collective research project)
  • Oticon Foundation 2008 (Conference support grant, with Keld Laursen and Steven Klepper)
  • Danish Social Science Research Council 2008 (Conference support grant, with Keld Laursen and Steven Klepper)
  • Rockwool Foundation 2007 (Collective research project)
  • Marie Curie Fellowship Exchange Grant 2002. (Travel grant)

Talks @ Invited seminars

  • Imperial College London (2008)
  • Harvard Business School (2007)
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business (2007)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (2007)
  • London Business School (2005)
  • Copenhagen Business School (2005, 2007)
  • Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems (2005)
  • Aarhus School of Business (2002, 2004)
  • Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (2002)
  • George Washington University (2001)

Talks @ Conferences and workshops

  • Rotterdam School of Management Entrepreneurship Workshop (invited, 2008)
  • Scancor 25th Anniversary Conference (invited, 2008)
  • Academy of Management (2006-2008)
  • Danish Economic Society (2008)
  • Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2007)
  • Nagymaros Group on Organizational Ecology (2007)
  • International Schumpeter Society Conference (2004, 2006)
  • Cambridge University (invited, 2006)
  • DRUID Summer Conference (2000, 2002-2008)
  • European Meeting of Applied Evolutionary Economics (2005)
  • Piteå Conference (invited, 2004)
  • European Congress of the Regional Science Association (2003)
  • DRUID Winter Conference (2001-2003)
  • Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2002)
  • Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, Future of Innovation Studies Conference (2001)
  • University of Paris XI, Third Congress on Proximity (2001)
  • CCC, Duke University (2001)
  • University of Maastricht, ETIC PhD Training (2000)
  • European Summer School of Industrial Dynamics (2000)
  • OECD Cluster Focus Group Workshop (2000)
  • Universite Louis Pasteur, ETIC PhD Training (2000)

Academic memberships

Referee Experience

Ad-hoc reviewer for Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Regional Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, European Planning Studies, International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

Research Projects

2009-2012 “Organizational Change“, financed by the Danish Social Science Research Council (Research Director)
2007-2009 “Entrepreneurship in Denmark“, financed by the Rockwool Foundation (Research Director)
2002-2003 “The Role of Universities in Regional Innovation Systems - A Nordic Perspective“, financed by the Nordic Industrial Fund (Participant)
2002-2003 “Nordic SMEs and Regional Innovation Systems“, financed by the Nordic Industrial Fund (Participant)
2001 “Innovation-related Knowledge Flows in European Industry: Extent, Mechanisms and Implications“, financed by the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme, “Targeted Socio-Economic Research” (TSER) (Participant)
2000-2001 OECD Cluster Focus Group under the National Innovation Systems project and contributed to the edited volume “Innovative Clusters: Drivers in National Innovation Systems” (Participant)
1999- Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
Board of Directors (2006-present)