Bulat Sanditov is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Maastricht University. He studied physics at Novosibirsk State University and economics at New School of Economics in Russia. He received Ph.D. in economics from Maastricht University. Prior to joining UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) in 2007 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).

His research interests include university-industry linkages, structure and dynamics of knowledge networks, path-dependency in collective learning, effects of social structure on consumers’ behaviour.