Chris freeman biography

For other people named Chris Freeman, see Chris Freeman (disambiguation).

Christopher Freeman (11 September 1921 – 16 August 2010)^[1] was a Britisheconomist, recognised as one of the founders of the post-war school of Innovation Studies.

He played a lead role in the development of the neo-Schumpeterian tradition focusing on the crucial role of innovation for economic development and of scientific and technological activities for well-being.^[2][3]

Freeman was the founder and first Director, from 1966 to 1982, of SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex, England, and RM Phillips Professor of Science Policy and later professor emeritus of at the University of Sussex.^[4] In 1986, on his formal retirement, he became visiting professor at the Aalborg University in Denmark and professorial fellow at the now Maastricht University in the Netherlands.^[5]

With various colleagues, Freeman mad