Professor Digital Strategy and Innovation
University of Antwerp at the Faculty of Business and Economics
He has been visitingprofessor at NUS (Singapore) and is currently a visiting professor at ESADE (Spain) and Politecnico di Milano(Italy).He published in different international journals such as Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of ProductInnovation Management, California Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of ManagementStudies, Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Venturing, Technovation, etc. He is co-editor with HenryChesbrough and Joel West of “Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm” (OUP, 2006), “New frontiers inopen innovation” (OUP, 2014) and “The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation” (OUP 2023). He published amanagement book “Managing open innovation in SMEs” (CUP – 2017) and an academic volume “Researchingopen innovation in SMEs” (World Scientific Press - 2018).He is editor-in-chief of Technovation and a dedicated digital transformation and innovation ecosystemresearcher collaborating with different partners around the globe. He established the European InnovationForum with Henry Chesbrough in 2012 and is co-organizer of the World Open Innovation Conference 2016. He isa frequently asked speaker at leading international conferences and an adviser for several large companies. Heconsults and organizes workshops for both large incumbents as well as for technology start-ups. He serves onthe Advisory Committee of the Research Center for Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University.His contributions to the academic community have been acknowledged with his inclusion in the World Top100 Scientists 2026 list (Business Management / Business Administration) of the AD Scientific Index.