David Nordfors is a Swedish physicist, active in the field of science, innovation and society.

As the initial Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) he created the Swedish research funding system for university colleges which broke down the earlier distinct borders between the universities as institutions for education and research, and the university colleges as institutions for education only..

Nordfors is the founding Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He is an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya, Israel, a visiting professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education commonly shortened as Monterrey Institute of Technology or Monterrey Tech is one of the largest private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus universities in...

 (Tech Monterrey) in Mexico, and visiting professor at the Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...

 DW-Academy. He was Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA

Vinnova

Vinnova is the Swedish government agency that administers state funding for research and development. The agency's mission as defined by the government is to promote development of efficient and innovative Swedish systems within the areas of technology, transportation, communication and labour...

, the Swedish National Agency for Innovation Systems.

He was one of the hundred experts of the World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 Innovation 100., and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Media.

Nordfors headed the first symposium about the Internet in the Swedish Parliament, in 1994. He coined the concepts of Innovation Journalism

Innovation journalism

Innovation Journalism is journalism covering innovation. It covers innovation processes and innovation systems.-Introduction:Innovation is more than invention. An invention is something new, it can be done by a single person. Innovation is the introduction of something new, it always involves the...

, Attention Work

Attention work

Attention work is the professional generation and brokering of attention. It is put in context by the attention economy. The expressions ‘attention workers’ and 'attention work' were coined by David Nordfors in 2006 ....

 and Innovation Communication Systems

Innovation communication system

The Innovation Communication System is a subset of an innovation system, focusing on the flows of communication and attention within and around it. The streams of attention related to an innovation ecosystem affect the power structures, the decisions, the output, and the competitiveness of the system...

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He has a Ph.D. in Quantum Molecular Physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, where he was appointed as doctoral student by Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn

Kai Siegbahn

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in 1944...

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