Johan Larsson is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering and Head of the Construction Management and Building Technology Division at Luleå University of Technology. He graduated from the same university and received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. His research mainly concerns collaboration between different actors in inter-organizational construction projects. The central concepts that the research includes are procurement and project management and how these can influence and promote various effects such as innovation and sustainability. The focus during the past years has been on how public clients, through their actions, can create collaboration between actors, which provides conditions for development and innovation.