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Position

Research Associate, AIM Fellow

Affiliation

Dr Erik Stam

Research interests

• entrepreneurship
• innovation
• regional economic development

Erik Stam joined the CTM in 2006 as a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management research (AIM) to work on the creation, growth and exit of technology based firms in collaboration with Elizabeth Garnsey. The study is part of the Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge project (IPGC). He is associate editor of Small Business Economics.

Background

Erik Stam is currently Associate Professor of Innovation and Organizational Economics at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). He was trained both as an economist and as a geographer and obtained his doctorate from Utrecht University. He worked as a Research Fellow at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) and was a Visiting Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is affiliated to the Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy group of the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Germany), the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, and to the Sloan Industry Studies program (US).

Selected Publications

• Nooteboom, B. and Stam, E. (2008) Microfoundations for Innovation Policy. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (forthcoming).
• Stam, E., Audretsch, D.B. and Meijaard, J. (2008) Renascent Entrepreneurship. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18.3, 493-507.
• Stam, E. (2007) Why Butterflies Don’t Leave. Locational behavior of entrepreneurial firms. Economic Geography, 83.1, 27-50.
• Garnsey, E., Stam, E. and Heffernan, P. (2006) New Firm Growth: Exploring processes and paths, Industry and Innovation 13.1, pp. 1-20.
• Schutjens, V. and Stam, E. (2003) The evolution and nature of young firm networks: a longitudinal perspective, Small Business Economics 21.2, pp. 115-134.
• Engstrand, A.K. and Stam, E. (2002) Embeddedness and economic transformation of manufacturing: A comparative research of two regions. Economic and Industrial Democracy 23.3, pp. 357-388.
• Wever, E. and Stam, E. (1999) Clusters of High Technology SMEs: The Dutch Case, Regional Studies 33.4, pp. 391-400.

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