Linus Brunnström receives the Wallander scholarship 2021
Linus Brunnström is one of the recipients of the Wallander scholarship 2021. The scholarship is awarded by the foundation “Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse”, and the recipients are excellent young scholars who have received their PhD degree during the last year. The scholarship covers three years of full-time research, giving the scholar the possibility to further merit themselves as researchers in their early career as academics.
Linus has been awarded the scholarship for a project called The role of universities and researchers in the creation of sustainable development within knowledge-intensive ecosystems: Maritime ecosystems. This project will continue to build on insights and results from studies carried out during his PhD studies but with a focus on the blue economy. Here, he will analyze how sustainable growth can be created within a knowledge-intensive maritime ecosystem with collaboration between researchers, universities and entrepreneurs. The coming research will focus on how complex academic knowledge can be realized and commercialized in different forms and how entrepreneurs get new possibilities to develop their businesses by being able to access university infrastructure and its researchers.
- I feel very honored and inspired to have been awarded with such a prestigious scholarship. It’s fantastic to be able to focus on developing my research and hopefully give something back in the form of useful knowledge in the ongoing blue transition to more sustainable growth.
Linus Brunnström received his PhD in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management of intellectual assets in January 2021 after having successfully defended his dissertation Commercialization done differently - How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms. Since his defense, Linus has worked as a researcher at the Unit for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Sea and Society. As a Wallander scholar, he will continue to be associated with the above-mentioned research unit and centre as well as the Gothenburg Centre on Knowledge-intensive Innovation Ecosystems (U-GOT KIES).
The scholarships are intended to fund the continued research of prominent younger newly graduated doctors in the economic disciplines. The scholarships provide three-year full funding for the holder (currently SEK 1,725,000) and aim to enable him/her to achieve associate professor competence.
More information: https://www.handelsbanken.se/shb/inet/IStartSv.nsf/FrameSet?OpenView&id=Forskningsstiftelserna