Robin Cowan

Robin Cowan

Robin is a Professor of the Economics of Technical Change at the University of Maastricht, and Professor of Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Strasbourg. He began his official affiliation with UNU-MERIT in 1997 as a Professorial Fellow. He is currently the Director of the PhD programme in Economics, Innovation and Governance for Development and UNU-MERIT. He studied at Queen's University in Canada and at Stanford University where he received a PhD in economics and an MA in philosophy. His current research includes several topics: the changing economics of knowledge; social networks and innovation; network structure and network performance; universities and science in emerging economies; interacting agents models.