Dr Karl-Erik Sveiby is professor emeritus at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. He has studied knowledge-intensive firms since the 1980's and is often described as one of the "founding fathers" of KM; his most cited work The New Organizational Wealth-Managing and Measuring Intangible Assets. His current research interests are unanticipated consequences of innovation and collective leadership in knowledge intensive organizations.

Karl-Erik has developed teaching methods and simulations that are used by corporations and universities worldwide. He is on the editorial board of five scientific journals and has published 14 books and some 50 articles; most of them are downloadable from his website www.sveiby.com. His latest co-edited book is Challenging the Innovation Paradigm was published by Routledge 2012.

For more information, please visit: www.sveiby.com.