IVA has elected 40 researchers and experts from companies and the public sector as new members of the academy. They all possess important expertise in technical and economic sciences and the business community, according to IVA.

Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand, researcher at Design Sciences, LTH and CIRCLE, is one of the new members. She says:

“This is really gratifying news. IVA is a very important player and meeting place for both academia and various types of decision makers in business and society. Being elected to the Division of Entrepreneurship and Leadership is a great honour."

Of the 40 new Fellows, three are researchers from Lund University:

• Andreas Bergh, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University and researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics is elected to IVA’s Economics Division.
• Kerstin Enflo, PhD in Economics, Professor of Economic History at Lund University School of Economics, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and member of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, is elected to IVA’s Economics Division.
• Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand, PhD in Engineering, Professor of Innovation at LTH, Lund University, is elected to IVA’s Management Division.

Read the news on the IVA website: IVA gets a boost with 40 new Fellows – here is the list