Goran Marklund

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Göran Marklund is Deputy Director General and Head of Strategic Intelligence at Vinnova, which is the Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems. He is also Swedish representative at and currently chairing the OECD TIP Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy. He often gives advice to the Swedish Government and to the EU on research, innovation and growth policy issues. As a researcher Dr Marklund has primarily specialised in innovation and economic change, globalisation, and national competitiveness. In this function he has closely followed OECD and Eurostat indicator work and assisted at the meetings of OECD group of national experts of science and technology indicators, NESTI. Vinnova is Sweden’s national Innovation Agency, falling under the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, with approximately 200 employees and a project portfolio of EUR 80 billion.