Dominique Foray

Current work

In this section, I describe my main current research topics and my main recent publications as well as some works in progress related to each of these topics
 
 *SMART SPECIALISATION AND INNOVATION POLICIES IN THE EU AND BEYOND

 -"Smart specialisation strategies: Insights from a unique European Policy experiment on innovation and industrial Policy designed", with M.Eichler and M.Keller, submitted to Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 2020 

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Biography

1 - Current occupations and activities
 
 I am Full Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and hold the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation (CEMI).
 
 I am a member of the Swiss Council for Science (SWR); chairman of the Advisory Board of the Swiss Economic Research Institute (KOF); and a foreign member of the Center of Capitalism and Society (Columbia University, New York). 
 
 From 2007 to 2015, I served as a member of the Swiss National Research Council (Division IV - Large Scale Programs)
 
 From 2013 to 2016, I was a member of the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation of Germany (E-FI) and a member of the Expert Group for the National Report on Research and Innovation (SBFI, Switzerland).
 
 From 2008 to 2011, I served as chairman of the expert group “Knowledge for Growth”; a group of prominent economists created to advise Commissioner J. Potocnik (European Commission, DG research). This is during this service as member of this Group that I developed the concept of smart specialisation (together with P.A.David and B.Hall) that is now a key policy mechanism of the EU (cohesion policy).
 
 My expertise includes the economics of innovation and knowledge and the economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy. I have presented many opening speeches and key note address in academic and policy conferences on these topics. I have written numerous academic papers as well as two books and have edited several books and special issues in these fields. Among these books,I like to highlight :
 
 
 • Technology and the Wealth of Nations (Pinter, 1992) ed.with C.Freeman;
 • Unemployment and Growth in the Knowledge-based Economy (OECD, 1996), ed. with B.A.Lundvall;
 • Knowledge economies and societies (a special issue of the International Social Science Journal, Basil Blackwell, 2002, with editions in French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabs, Russian);
 • The Economics of knowledge (MIT press, 2004, paperback in 2006) with editions in France, Italy, Korea, China, Greece, Syria and Algeria
 • The New Economics of Technology Policy(Edward Elgar)2009, ed.;
 . Smart specialisation : opportunities and challenges for regional innovation policy(Routledge, 2015)
 
 Since 2017, I regularly contribute to the Swiss Science Council blog: https://blog.wissenschaftsrat.ch/
 
 2 – Education, previous appointments and academic positions
 
 - I received my Ph.D. in economics in 1984 and my "habilitation à diriger des recherches" in 1992 from the University Lumière of Lyon. 
 - In 1985, I joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a Research Fellow in economics.
 - In 1990, I joined the Ecole Centrale de Paris as professor of economics, and taught in the program “ingénieur économiste”.
 - In 1993, I was nominated as Research Director at CNRS and joined the “Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l

EXPERT GROUP

Knowledge for Growth
EC - DG Research

PUBLICATIONS

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