Professor of Collaborative Innovation and Business Venturing
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- vvrande@rsm.nl
Profile
Vareska van de Vrande is Professor of Collaborative Innovation and Business Venturing at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Vareska joined RSM in 2007 after completing a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Her expertise focuses on the areas of corporate venturing and collaborative innovation, including external technology sourcing, corporate venture capital investments, strategic alliances, and corporate-startup collaboration. Other research interests include (corporate) entrepreneurship, patents, and venture capital. She has published articles in leading academic journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of Business Venturing. At RSM, Vareska teaches courses and modules in Strategic Management and Corporate Venturing at the graduate and post-experience level.
In addition, Vareska is the Academic Lead of Erasmus Enterprise, the founder of two web-portals on open innovation (www.openinnovatie.nl and www.openinnovation.eu), and a certified LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator.
- Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Moren Lévesque & Vareska Van De Vrande (2022) - Are Biopharma Firms Discontinuing Doomed Drug Discovery Projects Fast Enough? - Production and Operations Management, 31 (4), 1454-1455 - doi: 10.1111/poms.13621 - [link]
- Angelo Cavallo, Henri Burgers, Antonio Ghezzi & Vareska van de Vrande (2021) - The evolving nature of open innovation governance: A study of a digital platform development in collaboration with a big science centre - Technovation, 116 - doi: 10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102370 - [link]
- Michiel P. Tempelaar & Vareska van de Vrande (2021) - Beggars can be choosers: Resource scarcity, dynamism, search activities, and their joint impact on performance - Long Range Planning, 54 (4) - doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2021.102074 - [link]
- Pepijn van Neerijnen, Michiel P. Tempelaar & Vareska van de Vrande (2021) - Embracing Paradox: TMT paradoxical processes as a steppingstone between TMT reflexivity and organizational ambidexterity - Organization Studies - doi: 10.1177/01708406211058640 - [link]
- AM Subramanian, M Levesque & Vareska van de Vrande (2020) - "Pulling the plug”: Time allocation between drug discovery and development projects - Production and Operations Management, 29 (12), 2851-2876 - doi: 10.1111/poms.13255 - [link]
- AM Subramanian & Vareska van de Vrande (2019) - The role of intellectual capital in new product development: Can it become a liability? - Journal of Operations Management, 65 (6), 517-535 - doi: 10.1002/joom.1045 - [link]
- F di Lorenzo & Vareska van de Vrande (2018) - Tapping into the knowledge of incumbents: The role of corporate venture capital investments and inventor mobility - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13 (1), 24-46 - doi: 10.1002/sej.1304 - [link]
- Justin Jansen & Vareska van de Vrande (2018) - Is it better to look inside or outside for innovation? - RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 33 (1), 8-10 - [link]
- Vareska van de Vrande (2017) - Collaborative Innovation: Creating Opportunities in a Changing World - [link]
- Erik Stam & Vareska van de Vrande (2017) - Solopreneurs and the rise of co-working in the Netherlands - doi: 10.4337/9781785367243.00012 - [link]
- AM Subramanian, M Levesque & VJA (Vareska) van de Vrande (2021) - Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award
Venture Cafe Rotterdam
- Start date approval
- April 2020
- End date approval
- April 2023
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
IM Research clinic
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- BM-IM-RC
Corporate Venturing
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2022
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- BM-IM11CC