David Nordfors
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David Nordfors is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's Center for Innovations in Learning, leading the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford. He founded and leads the Swedish Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program, and is Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. He suggested the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in October 2003.
He was Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen, one of the largest Swedish research foundations. There he constructed the research funding programs and designed the policies and strategies for information dissemination.
He was Science Editor of Datateknik, the largest Swedish magazine for IT professionals and founded "IT och Lärande" (IT and Learning), the largest Swedish newsletter for educators, which he headed as publisher and editor.
He headed a seminal project on technological incubators with support from the Swedish government, which was supported in several bills in the Swedish parliament.
He initiated and headed the first hearing about the Internet to be held by the Swedish Parliament.
Dr. Nordfors has a Ph.D. in molecular quantum physics from the Uppsala University, where he was recruited as a Ph.D. student by Prof. Kai Siegbahn (Nobel Prize in Physics 1982). He was a post-doctoral researcher in theoretical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, supported by a grant from the Swedish Natural Research Council NFR.
He has published a book on commercialization of academic research results, based on a co-operation between VINNOVA and the US National Academy of Sciences, and has published scientific papers in physics, chemistry, and knowledge communication. Dr. Nordfors has organized several delegations, workshops and conferences and has been invited as a speaker by the OECD and other organizations.
