Fredrik Tell

Affiliated Professor at Department of Economic History; Uppsala Centre for Business History

E-mail:
fredrik.tell@fek.uu.se
Visiting address:
Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
75120 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala

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Professor Professor in Business Studies at Department of Business Studies; Professors, teachers, researchers

Telephone:
+46 18 471 31 27
E-mail:
fredrik.tell@fek.uu.se
Visiting address:
Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, ingång C
751 20 UPPSALA
Postal address:
Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:
PhD, Docent

Short presentation

My present research involves patent history, intellectual property rights and markets for technology, strategic temporal work and the relationship between the future and the present, development of organizational knowledge and capabilities, digitalization and changing organizational routines, temporary and distributed organizational forms in innovation, and multinational management during change. Currently I lead the research group Uppsala Patent History Group.

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  • entrepreneurshipresearchgroup
  • organisationresearchgroup

Biography

Since 1 September, 2015, I am Professor and Chair of Business Studies at Uppsala University. At the department I am chairing the scientific council, convene the higher seminar and teach courses mainly on master and doctoral level, primarily in strategy and research methods. My teaching experience covers all three cycles (undergraduate, master, doctoral) involving courses in organization, strategy, innovation, knowledge management, business history and scientific methods. I have acted on the advisory team for 14 PhD students that have completed their degrees, and am currently co-supervising four PhD students. I am Deputy Chair of the National Research School in Management and Information Technology (MIT). In my work at the department, I have been responsible, together with David Andersson and staff at the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) for enabling a searchable historical database denoted Swedish historical patents, 1746-1945.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (KVS) and the IMIT Foundation. I served as President of The Swedish Academy of Business and Management (FEKIS), 2018-2020.

Previously I was Professor in Business Administration at Linköping University, where I also completed my undergraduate and post-graduate education (Ph.D., 2000). I have been a founding member of five research groups: KITE (Knowledge Integration and Innovation in Transnational Enterprise, with Professor emeritus Christian Berggren); DRIM (Developing Research and Innovation in Multinationals: The case of Sweden and Brazil, with Professor Roberto Sbragia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil); EPOK (Enterprising by Projects and Organizational Knowledge, with Professor emeritus Lars Lindkvist and Professor Jonas Söderlund, Linköping University); MEKA (Managing External Knowledge Acquisition, with Professor Nicolette Lakemond, Linköping University); Patent History Research Group (with Professor emeritus Mats Larsson, Uppsala University).

During my years as an academic researcher I have been very fortunate to be able to work as a visiting scholar/fellow at the following institutions (in chronological order): IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Vienna, Austria, SCANCOR (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research), Stanford University, USA; SPRU (Science and Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex, UK; Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, Canada.

Research

I am currently involved in the following ongoing research projects:

SOCIAL TIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION DURING SWEDEN'S INDUSTRIALIZATION

Extended title: "Social capital and innovation: How did personal ties and social networks among engineers influence inventive activity during Sweden’s industrialization, 1830-1936?" (Funded by Jan Wallander och Tom Hedelius stiftelse), “Early innovations in Sweden: Mapping patents and inventors before the modern patent system, 1835-1885”, (funded by the Åke Wiberg foundation).

Collaborators: Dr David Andersson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University), Associate Professor Matti La Mela (Department of ALM, Uppsala universitet), PhD student Laura Giorio (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University), PhD student Mathias Johansson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).

IMPLICATIONS OF THE SWEDISH PATENT SYSTEM

Extended title: “Beyond the Numbers: Ownership models, Professors’ Privilege and the Performance of Academic Patenting in Europe” (funded by the European Patent Office, EPO).

Collaborators: Professor Frantzeska Papadopoulou Skarp, (Stockholm University, PI), Professor Marcus Holgersson (Chalmers University of Technology)

SWEDISH PATENT HISTORY AND MARKETS FOR TECHNOLOGY

Extended title: “Micro dynamics of markets for ideas: Patent trade, costs and litigation during the industrialization of Sweden” (Funded by Jan Walllander and Tom Hedelius' Foundation), "From invention to innovation: Novelty, impact and value of patents in 20th century Sweden" (Funded by The Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation for Research and Education)

Collaborators: Dr David Andersson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University), Associate Professor Matti La Mela (Department of ALM, Uppsala University), PhD student Yunting Xie (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).

FIRMS STRATEGIC USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Extended title: ”Buy, Sell or Keep? How do Swedish companies use their Intellectual Property Rights?” (Funded by Jan Wallander's and Tom Hedelius' Foundation).

Collaborators: Professor Marcus Holgersson (Chalmers University of Technology, Principal Investigator), Dr David Andersson (Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).

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