General Contact

Jeanette Hvarregaard

DRUID Secretary

druid@druid.dk

DRUID is associated with the journal Industry and Innovation, published by Routledge. Currently in its 16^th year and with bi-monthly publications, Industry and Innovation is listed in Thomson Reuter's Web of Science/SSCI and has a global editorial board of distinguished innovation scholars. Industry and Innovation publishes high-quality original scholarship on tendencies in industrial dynamics, such as the emergence of new industries; restructuring of existing industries; rise of new institutional and organizational forms; globalization; and other aspects of geographical organization.

DRUID is a core member of DIME: a EU sponsored network of excellence of social scientists, working on the economic and social consequences of increasing globalization and the rise of the knowledge economy.

6th Framework Programme of the European Union

Better understanding of changes

The mission of DRUID is to establish itself as a leading European centre for research and doctoral education in industrial dynamics, based on theories of innovation, economic organization, competitive advantage, organizational competencies, economic evolution and growth.

The objective is to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of technical, structural and institutional change at the level of the single firm as well as at the inter-firm level and the level of the economy as a whole.

Special attention is given to fundamental trends such as the growing importance of knowledge for competitiveness, the information technology revolution, and the internationalization of the economy

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Double, double toil and trouble:
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble

(the famous spell chanted by the three witches
as they mix their secret potion in William Shakespeare's
(1564-1616) play "Macbeth", Act IV, Scene 1)

The DRUID logo is a stylized 'cauldron', often used by druids to brew magic potion. At the same time it symbolizes DRUID as an academic 'melting pot': a vibrant research network where scholars from all continents exchange and advance ideas and plans to increase the depth, coherence and relevance of Industrial Dynamics.