Ron Boschma is Full Professor in Innovation Studies at Lund University in Sweden, and director of the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) at Lund University since 2013. He is also Full Professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Economic Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht since 2005. He received a Honorary Doctorate in Natural Sciences ("Doktor der Naturwissenschaften ehrenhalber") from Marburg University in Germany in 2013.
He received a PhD degree in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His scientific work concentrates on working out conceptually and empirically Evolutionary Economic Geography. Boschma has published in international journals on the spatial evolution of industries, the geography of innovation, proximity and innovation, the structure and evolution of spatial networks, regional diversification, and agglomeration externalities and regional growth.
