Dr Meyer has been working with the Institute of Strategy and International Business (Helsinki University of Technology) in various capacities since 1999. Most recently, as a senior researcher, he managed a major study on knowledge flows in the Finnish innovation system. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Research Policy, Scientometrics, R&D Management, Economic Systems Research, and World Patent Information. He has been a guest lecturer at a number of institutions in North America, Asia and Europe. Over the past two and a half years, Dr Meyer helped set up the Flemish Centre for R&D Statistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, with special responsibility for patent analysis. He has also acted as Research Director for the Finnish Institute for Enterprise Management. Dr Meyer has been appointed Gatsby Fellow for Technology Transfer at SPRU, the world-leading research centre for science and technology policy at the University of Sussex.

Dr Meyer has served as rapporteur for a European Commission special expert group on mapping networks of excellence and has advised the Finnish Parliament. Originally a student of business, economics and sociology at Dortmund University, he completed his master’s thesis in the field of marketing and technology management at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a PhD from SPRU. Apart from academic positions at the aforementioned institutions and Linkoping University, Sweden, Dr Meyer has also worked as consultant for Technopolis Innovation Policy Associates.

Dr Meyer has worked with Science-Metrix recently on a study of emergent technologies in the United Kingdom, which involved benchmarking activities in nanotechnologies and medical technologies patents using technometric methods:

Meyer M. and Morlacchi P. 2004.
in collaboration with Persson O., Archambault É, and Malsch I.
Continuous professional development in emerging technology sectors.
A SPRU Report for the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB), 60 pages.
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