KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof Karlsson is the former Director of New Business Development and Innovation in Group Function Strategy at Ericsson, the multinational networking and telecoms company. The company has continually reinvented itself during its long history, with an R&D structure on three levels to enable it to exploit and disrupt its markets.
Prof Karlsson is a firm advocate for professionalisation. He is the co-founder and former Chairman of the Association for Innovation Management Professionals in Sweden. The country was an early adopter of the ISO 56002 and offers innovation management certification for everyone applying for such a role in an organisation.
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