Christian Sandström, associate professor and columnist, investigates how the convergence of industrial subsidies and environmental policy shapes corporate environmental efforts and competitiveness in his latest research project.
Christian Sandström is an associate professor and columnist in Affärsvärlden. His research focuses on the interplay between technology and industrial dynamics with a particular focus on the role of politics. Sandström received his PhD from Chalmers University of Technology (2010), where he also received the university's pedagogical prize in 2018. He is one of the editors of the books Questioning the Entrepreneurial State (2022) and Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (2024), which together have been downloaded more than 300,000 times. Previously, Sandström has also been a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich and the University of Cambridge.
In his current research project Sandström is investigating how the convergence between industrial subsidies and environmental policy affects society. "Environmental policy has long been about making it profitable for companies to develop environmentally friendly alternatives through taxes and legislation. The green industrial support of the last 20 years is a change in the world that needs to be analyzed in more detail. How are companies' environmental efforts and their competitiveness affected by different forms of environmental policy?
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