Basic Information
Full name: Michael Slavensky Dahl
Born: 1974
Nationality: Danish
Current position:
Full Professor (with special responsibilities)
Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University
Denmark
University degrees:
Ph.D. in Industrial Economics
M.Sc. Economics (cand.oecon.)
both from Aalborg University
Employment and education
Full Professor (with special responsibilities), Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University [2010--present]
Visiting Scholar, Scancor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA [2010]
Associate Professor, DRUID, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University [2007--2009]
Visiting Professor, Department for Social Science and Decisions, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA [2007]
Assistant Professor joint at Center for TeleInFrastructure and DRUID, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University [2004--2007]
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Communication Technology, Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University [February--July, 2004]
Visiting scholar, Department for Social Science and Decisions, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA with Professor Steven Klepper [2002]
Visiting scholar, Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, Faculty for Technology Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands with Professor Bart Verspagen [2002]
Ph.D. student, DRUID-IKE-Group, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Bent Dalum [1999--2003]
Student research assistant, IKE-Group, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University [1998--1999]
M.Sc. in Industrial Economics (Cand.oecon.), Aalborg University [1997--1999]
Bachelor in Economics (BA oecon.), Aalborg University [1994--1997]
Awards
Tietgen Gold Medal Research Award 2006. Award given to promissing young scholars in economics and business. [€13,500]
Spar Nord Foundation Research Award 2005. Award given to younger researchers, who have completed an outstanding doctoral project at Aalborg University. [€33,759]
Tuborg Foundation Business Research Prize 2001. Award given to young business researchers to support a longer stay at a University in the United States. [€20,000]
Grants ( > €1,000)
Danish Social Science Research Council 2008 (Collective research project, Project leader and main applicant)
Oticon Foundation 2008 (Conference support grant, with Keld Laursen and Steven Klepper)
Danish Social Science Research Council 2008 (Conference support grant, with Keld Laursen and Steven Klepper)
Rockwool Foundation 2007 (Collective research project, Project leader and main applicant)
Marie Curie Fellowship Exchange Grant 2002. (Travel grant)
Talks @ Invited seminars
Scancor, Stanford University (2010)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2009)
Imperial College London (2008)
Harvard Business School (2007)
Stanford Graduate School of Business (2007)
Carnegie Mellon University (2007)
London Business School (2005)
Copenhagen Business School (2005, 2007)
Max Planck Institute for Economic Research (2005, 2010)
Aarhus School of Business (2002, 2004)
Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (2002)
George Washington University (2001)
Talks @ Conferences and workshops
ZEW Spin-off Workshop (2011)
Cluster Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (invited, 2009)
Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Lisbon (invited, 2009)
Rotterdam School of Management Entrepreneurship Workshop (invited, 2008)
Scancor 25th Anniversary Conference (invited, 2008)
Academy of Management (2006-2009)
Danish Economic Society (2008)
Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2007)
Nagymaros Group on Organizational Ecology (2007)
International Schumpeter Society Conference (Parallel: 2004, 2006; Plenary: 2010)
Cambridge University (invited, 2006)
DRUID Summer Conference (2000, 2002-2009)
European Meeting of Applied Evolutionary Economics (2005, 2009)
Piteå Conference (invited, 2004)
European Congress of the Regional Science Association (2003)
DRUID Winter Conference (2001-2003)
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2002)
Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, Future of Innovation Studies Conference (2001)
University of Paris XI, Third Congress on Proximity (2001)
CCC, Duke University (2001)
University of Maastricht, ETIC PhD Training (2000)
European Summer School of Industrial Dynamics (2000)
OECD Cluster Focus Group Workshop (2000)
Universite Louis Pasteur, ETIC PhD Training (2000)
Academic memberships
Member of the Academy of Management
Danish Economic Society
Referee Experience
Ad-hoc reviewer for Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, European Management Review, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Regional Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Papers in Regional Science, European Planning Studies, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, DRUID Conferences, Academy of Management Annual Meetings.
Research Projects
2009–2012: Organizational Change Project, financed by the Danish Social Science Research Council (Research Director)
2007–2009: Entrepreneurship in Denmark, financed by the Rockwool Foundation (Research Director)
1999–present : Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
Board of Directors (2006–present)