The Randstad, Netherlands
Full Professor of Strategy, Organization & Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, at Utrecht University. I am an "undisciplined economist" and a leading scholar in the field of entrepreneurial ecosystems, engaged in the science and practice of entrepreneurship-led development, locally and globally. Interested in entrepreneurship and human flourishing.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU-Africa) is an overseas campus of the College of Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University, located in Kigali Innovation City in Kigali, Rwanda, with the vision to have a transformative impact on African society through continual innovation in education, research, creativity, and entrepreneurship. CMU-Africa delivers transformative educational programs to cultivate future technology leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators across Africa, and engages in collaborative research and innovation to address African and global challenges.
The mission of the Utrecht Center for Entrepeneurship is to make students and employees aware of entrepreneurship (as a career option and as a mode of action), to prepare students and employees for entrepreneurship (skills), to act as a bridge to relevant entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial organisations in society (especially those led by Utrecht University alumni), and to provide an academically sound basis in entrepreneurship education.
The journal Small Business Economics provides an invaluable forum for research and scholarship focusing on the role of entrepreneurship and small business. The journal has a broad scope and focuses on multiple dimensions of entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurs' characteristics, new ventures and innovation, firms' life cycles; as well as the role played by institutions and public policies within local, regional, national and international contexts. Small Business Economics publishes theoretical, empirical, and conceptual papers and encourages interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research from a broad spectrum of disciplines and related fields, including economics, finance, management, psychology, regional studies, sociology and strategy. I have been editor from 2007-2018 and re-entered this role in 2023.
The Stichting (foundation) Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Observatory aims to increase actionable knowledge about the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, at regional, national and international levels, and in this way contribute to prosperity and well-being.