Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy Questioning the Mission Economy

Magnus Henrekson is a professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the president of IFN for 15 years until 2020. He previously held the Jacob Wallenberg Research Chair in the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His primary research focus is entrepreneurship economics and the institutional determinants of the business climate. In addition to his academic qualifications, he has extensive experience as an advisor, board member, and lecturer in many different contexts, both in the business sector and the public sector.

Christian Sandström is a senior associate professor at Jönköping International Business School and the Ratio Institute in Sweden. His research concerns industrial transformation and the role of innovation policy. Sandström is a coeditor of the popular Open Access book “Questioning the Entrepreneurial State” (Springer, 2022). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and ETH Zürich. Dr. Sandström has received several awards for his teaching at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Mikael Stenkula is an associate professor at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Sweden. His research focus is on entrepreneurship, business structures, and taxation. He has coauthored a textbook on entrepreneurship economics with Professor Magnus Henrekson and has published research about institutional reforms for European innovation and entrepreneurship.