Mercedes Delgado
Associate Professor
Primary research areas
Industry clusters and their innovation systems
The Supply Chain Economy
Inclusive Innovation, Growth, and Competitiveness
Innovation systems and the performance of people, organizations, and locations
Mercedes Delgado is Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. Her research examines the role of industry clusters in job creation, innovation, entrepreneurship, inclusivity, and resilience. She has developed novel methods for defining and mapping industry clusters and the supply chain economy across locations. Her work helps firms, practitioners, and policymakers design innovation strategies.
Her recent work explores the organizational and locational drivers of the inventor gender gap. She develops new methods to assess the role of organizations, their people, and locations in engaging scientific and technical talent in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Her multi-disciplinary work has been published in top economic, policy, strategy, and science journals, and featured in the news. She has received several prestigious grants, including a recent National Science Foundation grant. Delgado has engaged with multiple stakeholders in innovation ecosystems: government, hundreds of startups, corporations, and accelerators.