Jonas Grafström

Grafström's research in keywords: circular economy, energy, environmental economics, industrial policy, labor market, technological development, wind power

Jonas Grafström is Vice CEO of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm and an associate professor of economics at Luleå University of Technology. His research focuses on technological change, labor markets, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and circular economy transitions. He has held visiting scholar positions at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and George Mason University, and serves as a research fellow at the AI-Econ Lab at Örebro University. He is currently a member of the Board of Overseers for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and has been a special investigator for the Swedish Government’s ministry of Finances “Productivity Commission”. Currently he investigates economic policies for higher fertility at the ministry of Social issues.

• Published research on renewable energy innovation and knowledge spillovers, including work in Journal of Technology Transfer, Energy Policy, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
• Studies examining circularity and systemic barriers in industries such as metals, plastics, and energy, including publications in Journal of Industrial Ecology, Mineral Economics, and Journal of Cleaner Production.
• Research on technological change, automation, and labor-market dynamics, with applications to artificial intelligence, knowledge-intensive work, and industrial policy.