Print Print

Martin Møller Boje Rasmussen

PhD fellow , Cand. Mag. Filosofi
Martin Møller Boje Rasmussen

Department of Business and Politics

Steen Blichers Vej 22
2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3284



Link to this homepage: uk.cbs.dk/staff/MMR


The Industrial PhD Project ’The Future Role of Think Tanks’ is financed by the Danish think tank Monday Morning . The project is carried out in collaboration with DBP and Monday Morning from November 2010 to 2013. The project is affiliated with the CBP research project ‘Knowledge regimes’, currently being conducted by John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen. (see research projects ).
Theoretically the project is situated within the literature on new institutional theory and the varieties of capitalism. The projects departs from the assumption, that modern capitalistic states are engaged in a state of competition for jobs and economic growth. Moreover, besides competing for the most competitive domestic business, enterprises and industries, states just as much compete to create the best institutions (eg. welfare and educational institutions) for attracting and maintaining these businesses.
But with a growing number of global, accelerating and interconnected crises (e.g. climate change and the financial crisis) the pressure on states to adapt by means of institutional reform increases. In turn this means, that the demand for new ideas and solutions increases. But where does the ideas come from?
In many states think tanks and other types of knowledge producing organizations play a still more prominent role in the process of institutional reform. They identify and conceptualize new challenges and crises, develop new ideas and solutions, and acts as experts and advisers to governments and central societal stakeholders.
But today there exist limited knowledge about, how think tanks develop new ideas; what the relation between economic, political and knowledge institutions is; and how that relationship ultimately affects the competitiveness of states.
The project’s scientific aim is to understand the changing role of think tanks and their importance for the capability of states to deliver answers to new global challenges. The developmental aim is to improve Monday Mornings policy production processes with new knowledge on best practice of leading international think tanks.
The project consists of a comparative, qualitative analysis of the major think tanks in US, UK, Germany, France and Denmark. The research questions are organized in 3 highly interrelated themes:
§ The future role of think tanks: What is the role of think tanks in capitalist states, and how is the role changing?
§ The changing conceptualization of global challenges: How do think tanks identify and conceptualize global crises and challenges such as e.g. climate change and the financial crisis?
§ Change in national knowledge regimes: How do think tanks affect the economic and political institutions and thereby the competitiveness of states?
 
Competencies:
· Think Tanks
· Comparative Political Economy
· New Institutional Theory
· Production Ideas
· Globalization



Last updated by Mette Grue Nielsen 09/12/2011