Stephane Malo
Associate Professor
- Department: Economics and Management

Stéphane Malo studied economics andsociology in Montréal, Canada (BA and MSc) before embarking on aMA in Innovation Management and a PhD in economics of innovationat The United Nations University – Maastricht Economic andSocial Research Institute on Innovation and TechnologyUNU-MERIT) in the Netherlands. He held post-doc positions atChalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Maloreceived a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council andJean Monnet Award from the Canadian Government and the EuropeanCommission, respectively. He joined American University of Parisin 2014 after working at ESCEM, Grenoble Ecole de Management (FR)and Copenhagen Business School (DK). He has published in journalssuch as Research Policy and Entrepreneurship and RegionalDevelopment. Most of his research has been, and continue to beconcerned with firm performance, technology life cycle anduniversity and industry relations.
Education/Degrees
- Ph.D. in Economics of InnovationThe United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and SocialResearch Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)/Maastricht University
News
It is with great pleasure that a paper entitled, which I co-wrote with John Hagedoorn and Boris Lokshin from Maastricht University, has been awarded awarded the Best Paper Award for 2016 by the British Academy of Management.
I was recreantlyawarded the Best Paper Award for 2016 from the British Academy of Management. For more information on the award and my paper, please visit the following link.https://www.bam.ac.uk/news-story/9022
Publications
- Hagedoorn, J., Lokshin, B. & Malo, S. (2018) Alliances and the innovation performance of corporate and public research spin-off firms, Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 50(4), pages 763-781, April.
- Malo, S. (2009) The contributions of (not so) public researchto commercial innovations in the field of combinatorial chemistry, Research Policy, Vol. 38, pp. 957–970.
- Malo, S., Norus, J. (2009) Growth dynamics of biotechnologyfirms in transition economies. Evidence from Poland and theBaltic countries, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Vol.21, pp 481-502.
- Malo, S., Geuna, A. (2000) Science-technology linkages in anemerging research platform: the case of combinatorial chemistryand biology, Scientometrics, Vol. 47, pp. 303-321.
Conferences & Lectures
- Malo, S. (May 2010) Technological evolution and industrialdynamics in the combinatorial product and service industry, BIT's1st Annual International Conference of Medichem-2010, AmericanChemical Society-Medichem Division, Beijing (China)
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Malo, S. (July 2009) Internal and external learning – astrategy beyond survival, 3rd international DILab conference,Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
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Malo. S. (November 2004) Tapping into (not so) publicresearch in combinatorial drug discovery, European Forum 2004-05,European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
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Malo, S. (March 2003) Coping with a competence-enhancingdiscontinuity, Innovation, Growth and Market Structure Conference,Regent’s College, London (United Kingdom)
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Malo, S. (April 2003) Coping with a turbulent environment,The 3rd European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany)