Curriculum Vitae

Trained as both an economist and philosopher, Wilfred Dolfsma (1970) holds a PhD in the former from Erasmus University. He is professor of innovation at the University of Groningen School of Economics and Business, and is corresponding editor for the Review of Social Economy. Dolfsma's main research focus is the different aspects of cooperation in processes of innovation.

During previous affiliations he has been imbued with Economics of Innovation (Delft University of Technology), Innovation Management (RSM Erasmus University), Economic Geography (Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Philosophy of Science and Technology (Twente University of Technology), Economics of Organisation (Utrecht School of Economics), and innovation and development at UNU MERIT.

He has authored Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences (2004), Knowledge Economies (2008), and Institutions, Communication and Values (forthcoming). The former monograph won him EAEPE’s Gunnar Myrdal Prize in 2006. He co-edited Understanding the Dynamics of the Knowledge Economy (with Luc Soete, 2006), Globalization, Social Capital and Inequality (with Charlie Dannreuther, 2003), Ethics and the Market (with Deb Figart and Jane Clary, 2006) and Media & Economie: Markten in Beweging en een Overheid die stuurt zonder Kompas. Preadviezen van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staatshuishoudkunde (with Richard Nahuis, 2005). Articles have featured in, a.o., the Journal of Economics Issues, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, Journal of Business Ethics, The Information Society, International Journal of Innovation Management, and Research Policy.