Michael S. Dahl (MSD) is a Professor of the Economics of Entrepreneurship and Organizations at the Department of Business and Management, 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 Spar Nord Foundation Research Award 2005, the Tietgen Gold Medal Research Award 2006, the Tuborg Foundation Business Research Award 2001, and the European Management Review Best Paper Award 2009. MSD is heading the newly founded research group for Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior at Aalborg University. He is a member of the board of directors of 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 Management Science, Social Forces, Journal of Urban Economics, Research Policy, European Management Review, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and International Review of Applied Economics.