Biography
Michael S. Dahl (MSD) is a Professor of the Economics of Entrepreneurship and Organizations at the Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has a PhD (2004) and a MSc in Industrial Economics both from Aalborg University (1999). Previously, he held visiting scholarships at Carnegie Mellon University, SCANCOR at Stanford University, and Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies. He has been awarded with the SparNord Foundation Research Award 2004, the Tietgen Gold Medal Research Award 2005, the Tuborg Foundation Business Research Award 2001, and the European Management Review Best Paper Award 2009. He is a member of the board of directors of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID).
MSDs research focuses on broad issues related to the organization and performance of new businesses, economic geography, migration, population ecology and health outcomes. This research has been published in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Urban Economics, Research Policy, European Management Review, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and International Review of Applied Economics.