David Nordfors is co-founder and Executive Director of the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-Star Institute. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism (2003) and Attention Work (2006) and started the first innovation journalism initiatives, in Sweden (2003) and at Stanford (2005).

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  • David Nordfors is co-founder and Executive Director of the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-Star Institute. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism (2003) and Attention Work (2006) and started the first innovation journalism initiatives, in Sweden (2003) and at Stanford (2005). Nordfors is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, as well as the World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative. He was Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. He was the initial Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen, one of the largest Swedish research foundations. He was the initial Science Editor of Datateknik, the largest Swedish magazine for IT professionals. He was the founding publisher and editor of "IT och Lärande" (IT and Learning), the largest Swedish newsletter for educators. He initiated and headed the first hearing about the Internet to be held by the Swedish Parliament. Dr. Nordfors has a Ph.D. in molecular quantum physics from the Uppsala University, where he was recruited as a Ph.D. student by Prof. Kai Siegbahn (Nobel Prize in Physics 1982). He was a post-doctoral researcher in theoretical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg on a grant from the Swedish Natural Research Council NFR.
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  • David Nordfors is co-founder and Executive Director of the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism at Stanford University. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's H-Star Institute. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism (2003) and Attention Work (2006) and started the first innovation journalism initiatives, in Sweden (2003) and at Stanford (2005).
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  • David Nordfors
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