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Stine Haakonsson

Assistant professor , cand.scient. & PhD
Stine Haakonsson

Department of Business and Politics

Porcelænshaven 24, st.
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3124
E-mail: sh.dbp@cbs.dk



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My research concerns the current restructuring experienced by industry in the globalization process – primarily as outsource, off shoring and engagement in global value chains. Focus is on pharmaceutical industry and the agro-food sector. Furthermore I am interested in global governance, the institutional framework in which the value chains are formed, mainly the WTO and UNFCCC.
I am involved in the EU FP7 research program, INGINEUS ( www.ingineus.eu ) , which investigates:
1. How global production networks increasingly include flows of knowledge and innovation networks.
2. How knowledge intensive activities and innovation more generally takes place in ‘emerging economies’ (China, India, South Africa and Brazil), and
3. The consequences for the European Union and the emerging ecomomies respectively.

Primary research areas

  • Socio-economic geography
  • Global Value Chains
  • Innovation networks
  • Knowledge intensive industries
  • Climate and technology transfer
  • Trade and Development
  • WTO - World Trade Organisation


Selected publications

Haakonsson, S. J. & Rasmussen, H. E. (2010). ” Offshoring of knowledge activities as a strategy for sustaining Danish IT industries”. Transfer 16(2): 269-71.
Haakonsson, S. J. (2009) “The Changing Governance Structures of the Global Pharmaceutical Value Chain’. Competition & Change. (1): 75-95.
Haakonsson, S. J. (forthcoming 2009) “Learning by importing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading and South-South strategies in the Ugandan pharmaceutical industry” Development Southern Africa, forthcoming in September issue.
Haakonsson, S. J. (2009) ‘How does “linking up with global buyers” impact the prospects for upgrading in pharmaceuticals? The case of India’ in Rugraff, E., Sanchez-Ancochea, D. and Sumner, A. (eds.) Transnational Corporations and Development Policy: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave, Basingstoke.
Haakonsson, S. J. (2008) ‘Governance and Upgrading in the Global Value Chain for Pharmaceuticals: With Case Studies on Uganda and India’ Ph.D. Thesis, Trade & Development (DIIS) and Department of Geography (KU).
Haakonsson, S. J. and Söderberg, M. (2008). ‘Climate Change and Transfer of Technology: Are Patents Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?’. Dan Church Aid Discussion Paper June 2008.
Haakonsson, S. J. & Richey, L. A. (2007). ‘TRIPs and Public Health: The Doha Declaration and Africa’ in Development Policy Review, 25 (1):71-90.
Full publication list (pdf)



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