Full Professor, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and co-author of the smart specialisation concept
Dominique Foray, Full Professor of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), holds the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation (CEMI). He was one of co-authors of the smart specialisation concept, then was deeply involved in the implementation of the policy of smart specialisation in the EU from 2009 to 2013.
He is a member of the National Research Council (Switzerland); the Advisory Board of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF); the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council; and a foreign member of the Center of Capitalism and Society (Columbia University, New York). He is also a new member of the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation of Germany.
From 2008 to 2011, he served as chairman of the expert group “Knowledge for Growth”; a group of prominent economists created to advise Commissioner J. Potocnik (European Commission, DG research). This is during his service as member of this Group that he developed the concept of smart specialisation (together with P.A.David and B.Hall) that is now a key policy mechanism of the EU (cohesion policy).
Dominique Foray is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in the field of economic policy aimed at a knowledge-based economy development. D. Foray is currently working on evidence-based policy research to explain the hidden factors and reasons of the Swiss outstanding position in terms of research and innovation.
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