John Cantwell: Short Biography

Dr John Cantwell is Professor of International Business at Rutgers University, having arrived from the UK in 2002. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), the
University of the Social Sciences, Toulouse (France), and the University of Economics and Business
Administration, Vienna (Austria). He is recognized as a pioneer in the field of research on multinational companies and technology creation, beyond merely international technology transfer. He was the President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) in 1992, and in 2001 he was elected as one of four EIBA Founding Fellows. Fellowships recognize outstanding achievements in research and education in the field of international business, and the number of Fellows is restricted to no more than 20. Professor Cantwell is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, a leading (US-based) academic periodical, and a member of the editorial board of other peer-reviewed journals - including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Management, the Journal of Management and Governance, and Management International Review.

Two of Professor Cantwell’s former PhD students have received the Richard N Farmer award of the Academy of International Business (AIB) for the best dissertation in international business – Dr Paz Tolentino in 1989, for her thesis on technological innovation and Third World multinationals, and Dr Camilla Noonan in 2003, for her thesis on knowledge spillovers between foreign-owned and indigenous firms in Germany. Also, another of his former students, Dr Odile Janne, won the prize for the best thesis proposal in the EIBA Doctoral Tutorial in International Business in 1996, for her work on the geography of technological development in multinational corporations in Europe. The current and former PhD students and post-doctoral researchers with whom Professor Cantwell has co-authored papers in the field of international business and technological innovation include Birgitte Andersen, Astrid Bachman, Helena Barnard (forthcoming), Felicia Fai, Katherina Glac, Simona Iammarino, Odile Janne, Elena Kosmopoulou, Camilla Noonan, Lucia Piscitello, Grazia Santangelo, Paz Tolentino, Giovanna Vertova and Yanli Zhang (forthcoming).

Professor Cantwell welcomes applications to the PhD program in IB by well-qualified candidates that wish to work in the area of technological innovation in MNCs, and any such applications should be made through the program office.