Mats Magnusson has taken over the role as director of the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (IMIT) from Professor Christer Karlsson. IMIT is a research institute providing a fruitful collaboration platform for research projects that include several universities, or a combination of academic and industry research partners. An important role of IMIT is also to communicate new research findings within technology management to practitioners through the distribution of the journal “Management of Technology”, which is distributed to around 12.000 managers in Swedish industry. Apart from its head office in Göteborg, IMIT also has a recently opened office at Lund Technical University.

Mats will spend approximately 50% of his time as director of IMIT and on the other half he continues his work at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology.