He joined ESMT in January 2011 as an assistant professor. Linus received his PhD in Technology Management and Economics from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2006. From 2006 to 2008, Linus was an assistant professor and an Advanced Institute of Management Research Fellow with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School in the UK. From 2008 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He is also a visiting professor at the newly funded Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University in Sweden. He teaches classes for MBAs, EMBAs, executives as well as PhD students on innovation, entrepreneurship, and networks. He also consults and advices startups, large multinationals as well as government organizations on issues around innovation and networks.