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Curriculum Vitae
Jan Gunnarsson
Associate Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
University of Copenhagen
Born 1509.1946
Educations
B.A. Gothenburg University 1969
Ph.D. in Economics, Gothenburg University 1976
Academic career
Lecturer, Department of Economics, 1970-72, Gothenburg University
Junior Research Fellow, Gothenburg University 1977-79
Assistant Professor, Roskilde University 1978-79
Associate Professor, Roskilde University 1979-87
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Copenhagen University 1987 -2011
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Copenhagen University 2011-
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Management Sciences, University of the Gambia 2011 -
Research projects and consultant
Coordinator of the REKO consortium: Application to EU’s FP7 (“Regionalism and the Development of Knowledge Economies in Europe”), 2008-
Project director (in collaboration with Magnus Jerneck, Lund University): Study of a firm-authority cross-border network in the Øresund region (ScanEast Øresund) (Öresundskomiteen, Interreg II) 1998-2000
Project director (in collaboration with Magnus Jerneck, Lund University): Firm counselling on the EU in the Greater Copenhagen area (Scandinavian Academy of
Management Studies and county councils in the Greater Copenhagen region) 1998
Shipping in the Baltic Sea (Baltic Ports Organization) 1994
Project director: Economic control through public-private relationships: a municipal perspective (The Swedish Council for Building Research and Malmö County council) 1988-92
Swedish partner in International Researchers Collaboration: The role of the local planning process in the implementation of decisions relevant to change in the local economy (ECE) 1982-89
Project director: Municipal planning in the context of various allocation systems (The Swedish Council for Building Research) 1983-86
Project director: Changes in municipal planning in response to changed state-market relations (The Swedish Council for Building Research) 1981-82
Consultant in Social Welfare Economics (The Association of Swedish Welfare Services) 1980-83
Publications: books
Jan Gunnarsson (2001): Industrial Policy & European Regions - An Institutional Approach with Empirical Evidence from the Baltic Rim, Academic Press, Copenhagen
Jan Gunnarsson (1992): Politics & markets. A case-study of planning and learning in mixed economies, Academic Press, Copenhagen
Jan Gunnarsson (1987: in Swedish): Housing in mixed economies (“Länken. Studier av blandad ekonomi med fokus på bostadsförsörjningen"), Dialogos, Lund
Jan Gunnarsson (1980: in Swedish): Interrelationships between sparsely populated areas and city areas ("Från glesbygdsproblem till storstadskris"), Akademiförlaget, Gothenburg
Jan Gunnarsson (1977): Production systems and hierarchies of centres. Martinus Nijhoff, Lei-
den (PhD)
Publications: articles in English
An evolutionary approach to Regional Innovation Systems /with Torsten Wallin/, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2011
Social Aspects of Regional Innovation Strategies. The REKO-project (in Piasecki B., Kubiak K. (eds.) Partnership for Innovation), SWSPiZ Publishing, Łódź 2009,
Is Economic Analysis of Any Help in Studies of Legitimacy in the EU? Discussion Paper 04-32, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen 2004
Local Business Alliances and Regional Empowerment in EU Policy Networks, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Volume 4, no. 3, 2003
Communication between Public and Private Interests and the Europeanisation at the Regional Level. Discussion papers 02-14, 33 s. Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Kbh. 2002.
Innovations in decision models: A narrative approach” (in “HRM and the learning organization”, Lähteenmäki, S, Holden, L, Roberts, I (eds.)), Publications of the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration 1999
The contours of a regional system on the Baltic rim. An industrial-policy perspective (in “Hur en Region Nybildas”), Öresundsuniversitetet 1998
How rational are business firms?, Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 1992
Paper in editorial process
Impact of Innovation and Places on Corporate Governance. The Case of Wind Turbine Production /with Nikola Cikusa and Anca D. Hansen/
Publications in Scandinavian languages
Industrielle netværker og institutionel effektivitet i Øresundsregionaliseringen (i “Øresundsregionaliseringen analyseret strategisk og ledelsesmæssigt”, Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen, Lunds Universitet, 2000
Udvidet EU-rådgivning til virksomhederne i Hovedstadsregionen /med Magnus Jerneck/, Scandinavian Academy of Management Studies - SAMS, 1998
Statslige politikker og kommunale erhvervsudviklingsstrategier i grænseregioner /med Madsen S och Rebien S/, Nordisk Administrativ Tidsskrift 3/1995
Regioner, stater och företag i samarbete omkring Östersjön", Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift nr 10 1994
Förhandlingspolitik. En studie av synsätt och handlingsmönster vid avvecklingen av Kockums i Malmö", ERU-rapport 62, Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet, Stockholm, 1990
Styrsystem och regioner (i "Det regionala styrsystemet. Regionala SIND-diagnoser, rapport 1", Statens Industriverk, Stockholm 1990
Näringspolitik. Något för en kommundelsnämnd". Kapitel 8 i S Jönsson, "Kommunal organisation. Från programbudgetering till kommundelsnämnder”, Studentlitteratur 1989
Resursfördelning utan marknader, Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 1982 nr 2
Marknaden, Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 1981 nr 2
Kommunal planering i olika fördelningssituationer, NordREFO 1981:1-2
Är planering lika med fortsatt marknadsekonomi? Ett inlägg om kapitalistisk planering med utblick i planekonomin, Tidskriften Økonomi & Politik nr 2 1982
Planning, distribution of income and regional division of labour", Memo nr 75, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet 1978
Kollektiva nyttigheter och skadligheter" (kapitel 3 i Gunnarsson-Wigren-Wästlund "Problem vid resursallokering", Memo nr 36, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet) 1972
Storföretagens betydelse för markanvändingen", Memo nr 29, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet (med L Andersson) 1972
Work in progress
Development by Innovative Farmers: Adoption of agroforestry farming practices in the Gambia, Working Paper August 2013, Department of Economics & Management Sciences, University of the Gambia
Book reviews:
Gunnar Törnqvist. "Science at the Cutting Edge. The Future of the Øresund Region." Copenhagen Business School Press, 2002. Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 141(3), s. 437-440. 2003
Torben Beck Jørgensen og Kurt Klaudi Klausen (red.). "Territorial dynamik. Streger på landkortet - billeder i vore hoveder." Magtudredningen. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2002.
(Territorial Dynamics). Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 140(3), s. 399-401. 2002