Sigvald Harryson is an Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School within the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy. He also serves as Director of International Partnerships at Lund University School of Management where his main-responsibility resides in forging research alliances with industry. Between 2003 and 2006, he developed the master program Managing Growth Through Innovation at the Baltic Business School (merged into Linnaeus in 2009) in Sweden, and acted as Program Director for this until 2006 when he joined CBS. Prior to his academic career, he spent three years as a development engineer working across five different European R&D and Engineering Centers of Tetra Pak. From 1994 until 2004, Sigvald spent ten years in general management consulting with the companies Arthur D. Little as Partner, Booz Allen Hamilton as Principal, and the Boston Consulting Group as Manager. Sigvald received a magna cum laude doctoral degree in Japanese R&D Management from the St. Gallen University in 1995, and a PhD in Knowledge & Innovation Management at the Göteborg School of Economics in October 2002. His research focuses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Leadership through University Collaboration. He is also exploring Business Model Transformation; Born Global Entrepreneurship and Reverse Innovation through Industry-University Collaboration in China.

Sigvald has published in premier journals like Journal of Management Studies, R&D Management, and the Harvard Business Review. He has also published four teaching and management books focusing on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His first book was published in Chinese by Peking University Press that has sold out four editions. Sigvald received his Docent competence from Lund University in 2006. Over the past ten years, Sigvald has been invited to make more than 100 executive presentations and seminars for organizations like IIR, Euroforum, marcusevans, ICM, ZFU and many global companies.

Sigvald is also a Board member of Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship and Chairman of the Board of InnoVentum. Perhaps as a less common point in any résumé, Sigvald qualified among more than 9000 contenders into the 2011 Swedish edition of Survivor (called Robinson in Sweden). His performance and final results may not be disclosed at this point.

“The one attacking an innovation challenge by asking “how” will not get an equally good solution as the one asking “who.”