Technopolis Group

Vera Stafström

Consultant

Offices: Sweden
Email: vera.stafstrom@technopolis-group.com

Vera Stafström works as a consultant at Technopolis Group’s subsidiary in Sweden. In her capacity as an consultant, she has developed expertise in public policy evaluation including innovation systems and higher education policy. She has contributed to evaluations, impact assessments and studies for European, Nordic and national public bodies. During her time at Technopolis Group, she has successfully applied a range of methods such as interviews, surveys, case studies, desk research, literature reviews, econometrics and statistical analyses. Vera has conducted statistical analyses of large datasets in several projects.

Vera has studied economics, statistics and political science at Lund University from which she obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics. In addition, Vera holds a master’s degree in international business and trade from the University of Gothenburg. During her studies, Vera has focused largely on quantitative analysis and economics. Vera is fluent in English and Swedish and has a good understanding of Norwegian and Danish.

Recent and current assignments include:

  • AI Sweden, Ongoing evaluation of the project REACT EU – AI Change Agents, 2022 (ongoing)
  • Formas, Evaluation of the national research programme, 2021-2022 (ongoing)
  • Swedish Energy Agency, Evaluation of the energy and climate advicors function, 2022 (ongoing)
  • Swedish Energy Agency, Evaluation of the research programme Design for Everyday Energy Efficiency, 2022
  • The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, A comparative analysis of the Swedish research sector, 2022
  • The Knowledge Foundation, Evaluation of the programme Expertkompetens, 2021-2022
  • Nordic Council of Ministers, Evaluation of NordForsk, 2021-2022
  • IKEM, Skills supply of higher educated people to the Innovation and Chemical Industries in Sweden, 2021-2022
  • Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Support to efforts in conversion and notice, 2021-2022
  • Swedish Research Council, Contribution to survey and analysis of the national work with open access to research data, 2021-2022
  • Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Survey study, 2022
  • Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, Evaluation of the strategic innovation programmes (joint quantitative analyses for five programmes), 2021
  • Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, Evaluation of the Strategic innovation programme Drive Sweden, 2021
  • Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, Evaluation of the Strategic innovation programme Smart Built Environment, 2021
  • IKEM, Skills supply of PhDs for the Chemical and innovation companies in Sweden, 2021
  • Mälardalen University, Ongoing evaluation of the project Worldclass energy solutions, 2019–2021
  • Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas, Evaluation of the strategic innovation programmes, 2019
  • Swedish Energy Agency, Impact evaluation of Bioenergy, 2019
  • Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science, Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark, Analysis of Academic Recognition for Higher Education Students Studying Abroad with the Erasmus+ Programme, 2018–2019

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