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Business and Management
Denmark
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
45
Citations
22931
World Ranking
1246
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Keld Laursen is affiliated with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Their research primarily spans fields related to Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Within these main fields, their work includes several subfields of study such as Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, and Computer Science Applications. Their scholarly contributions focus on topics including Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Innovation Policy and R&D, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Open Source Software Innovations, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Laursen has published multiple papers across various respected academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • Inbound Open Innovation and Innovation Performance: A Robustness Study, 2021, Research Policy
  • Mounting Corporate Innovation Performance: The Effects of High-Skilled Migrant Hires and Integration Capacity, 2020, Research Policy
  • Who Captures Value from Open Innovation - The Firm or Its Employees?, 2020, Strategic Management Review
  • What We Know about Open Innovation, Unresolved Issues, and a Checklist for Future Research, 2023, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
  • Examining the Influence of Competition Networks Structure on Firm's Out-Licensing Strategy, 2022, Academy of Management Proceedings

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laursen include:

  • Ammon Salter
  • Mark Vancauteren
  • Yuan Shi
  • Bart Leten
  • Ngoc Hân Nguyen

The main venues where Laursen has published work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Research Policy
  • Strategic Management Review
  • Journal of Industrial and Business Economics

Keld Laursen's research reflects a sustained focus on innovation dynamics within firms and industries, particularly concerning open innovation practices, the role of skilled migrants in corporate innovation, and value capture mechanisms. Their contributions also engage with broader themes of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and policy impacts related to innovation ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms

    Keld Laursen;Ammon Salter

  • Searching high and low: what types of firms use universities as a source of innovation?

    Keld Laursen;Ammon Salter

  • New human resource management practices, complementarities and the impact on innovation performance

    Keld Laursen;Nicolai Juul Foss

  • The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration

    Keld Laursen;Keld Laursen;Ammon J. Salter

  • The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

    Marcel Bogers;Ann Kristin Zobel;Allan Afuah;Esteve Almirall

  • Revealed comparative advantage and the alternatives as measures of international specialization

    Keld Laursen

  • Linking Customer Interaction and Innovation: The Mediating Role of New Organizational Practices

    Nicolai J. Foss;Keld Laursen;Torben Pedersen

  • Structural Change in OECD Export Specialisation Patterns: de-specialisation and ‘stickiness’

    Bent Dalum;Keld Laursen;Gert Villumsen

  • Exploring the Effect of Geographical Proximity and University Quality on University–Industry Collaboration in the United Kingdom

    Keld Laursen;Toke Reichstein;Ammon Salter

  • Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition

    Keld Laursen;Francesca Masciarelli;Andrea Prencipe

  • Keep searching and you’ll find: what do we know about variety creation through firms’ search activities for innovation?

    Keld Laursen;Keld Laursen

  • The Importance of Sectoral Differences in the Application of Complementary HRM Practices for Innovation Performance

    Keld Laursen

  • Knowledge strategies, firm types, and complementarity in human-resource practices

    Keld Laursen;Volker Mahnke

  • The role of lead users in knowledge sharing

    Lars Bo Jeppesen;Keld Laursen

  • Performance Pay, Delegation and Multitasking under Uncertainty and Innovativeness: An Empirical Investigation

    Nicolai Juul Foss;Keld Laursen

  • Technological exploration through licensing: new insights from the licensee’s point of view

    Keld Laursen;Maria Isabella Leone;Salvatore Torrisi

  • Revealed Comparative Advantage and the Alternatives as Measures of International Specialisation

    Keld Laursen

  • The impact of R&D offshoring on the home knowledge production of OECD investing regions

    Lorena M. D’Agostino;Keld Laursen;Keld Laursen;Grazia D. Santangelo

  • Trade specialisation, technology and economic growth

    Keld Laursen

  • Human Resource Management Practices and Innovation

    Keld Laursen;Nicolai Juul Foss

  • The Impact of Technological Opportunity on the Dynamics of Trade Performance

    Keld Laursen

  • Do export and technological specialisation patterns co-evolve in terms of convergence or divergence? Evidence from 19 OECD countries, 1971-1991

    Keld Laursen

  • The role of openness in explaining innovation performance among UK manufacturing firms

    Keld Laursen;Ammon Salter

Frequent Co-Authors

Ammon Salter
Ammon Salter University of Warwick
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Nicolai Juul Foss
Nicolai Juul Foss Copenhagen Business School
John Hagedoorn
John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London
Mats Magnusson
Mats Magnusson Royal Institute of Technology
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University
Annabelle Gawer
Annabelle Gawer University of Surrey
Frank T. Piller
Frank T. Piller RWTH Aachen University
Massimo G. Colombo
Massimo G. Colombo Polytechnic University of Milan

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