Susana Borras

Presentation

Susana Borrás is professor on innovation and governance. As a social scientist expert on public policy, two of her leading questions are, what governments can do to foster and to improve socio-technical innovation in the economy, and what makes some decisions regarding socio-technical and innovation change to be democratically legitimate and others not. Her main attention is in the European Union, both at the supra-national level as well as national and regional levels. She advices regularly innovation policy-makers, is member of the editorial board of 5 scientific journals, and has non-executive leadership responsibilities seating in several boards.

Primary research areas

• Innovation policy and innovation systems
• Governance of science and innovation
• European Union governance
• Policy instruments
• New modes of governance

Courses

• Business and Global Governance (BPOL – BSc International Business and Politics program)
• The European Market and Business Strategy (BA elective)
• Master Thesis coordination & seminars (Cand Merc Pol – MSc International Business and Politics program)
• Advanced European Business and Politics (Cand. Ling. Merc. – MA Intercultural Marketing program)
• Social Science Research Design and Methods (PhD course)

Supervision

She supervises at Ph.D., Master thesis, and Bachelor thesis levels in the areas related to her teaching and research.