Jacob Torfing is Professor in politics and institutions and research director of the Roskilde School of Governance, which is a political science and public administration research center at the Department of Social Sciences and Business. His research interests include public sector reforms, network governance, collaborative innovation, interactive political leadership, and innovation management. He is part of a number of Nordic and European research projects that focus on the co-creation of innovative solutions to complex societal problems and the impact of leadership and institutional design on cross-boundary collaboration.