Hans Westlund

Professor Entrepreneurship
CEnSE - Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics , Jönköping International Business School
Professor Entrepreneurship
Economics , Jönköping International Business School
CEnSE - Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics , Jönköping International Business School
Doctor of Philosophy

Research

Hans Westlund is interested in regional development, social capital, innovation, entrepreneurship, peripheral and rural regions.

Biography

Dr. Hans Westlund, b. 1957 PhD in Economic History (University of Umeå, Umeå) 1992

Current Positions and Selected Commissions

  • Chariman of the Local Organisation Committee for the European Regional Science Association's (ERSA) 50th Anniversary congress, in Jönköping 2010.
  • Member of the Swedish Board of Agriculture's (Jordbruksverket) Rural Council
  • Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry's Committee for Rural Development
  • Member of the Swedish Rural Network's and the Research Council Formas' Scientific Council of Rural Development
  • Professor in Regional Planning, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. 2007-
  • Professor in Entrepreneurship and Director of Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden. 2007-
  • Member of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation´s Sector Committee for Research on the Civil Society 2003-
  • Chairman and founder (together with Professor Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyoto University) of the International workshop “Social Capital and Development Trends in Japan´s and Sweden´s Countryside", 2004-
  • Member of the board of directors of the Western Regional Science Association 2005-
  • Member of the European Organising Committee of the European Regional Science Association 2006-

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