Biography
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 a co-founder of the Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Community, a platform that brings together academics and practitioners to exchange insights and best practices in the area of corporate venturing. She was also the co-founder and Academic Lead of Erasmus Enterprise (the incubator organization of Erasmus University), a member of the Supervisory Board of YES!Delft (the TU Delft incubator), and co-founder of two web-portals on open innovation (www.openinnovatie.nl and www.openinnovation.eu ). Currently, she acts as a board member at Venture Café Rotterdam (part of the Cambridge Innovation Center).
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- vvrande@rsm.nl
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Work
- Vareska Van De Vrande, Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Moren Lévesque & Patricia Klopf (2024) - The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development - Research Policy, 53 (2) - doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104938 - [link]
- Mathilde Sanders & Vareska van de Vrande (2024) - Value creation in interdependent digital and analogue markets - Journal of Media Business Studies - doi: 10.1080/16522354.2023.2300195 - [link]
- Vareska van de Vrande & Corina Kuiper (2024) - How Corporate Venturing Adds Value to Open Innovation
- Moren Lévesque, Annapoornima M. Subramanian & Vareska Van De Vrande (2023) - The inseparable two: Impact of prior success and failure on new product development project discontinuation - Journal of Operations Management, 69 (2), 305-336 - doi: 10.1002/joom.1214 - [link]
- Ajlin Dizdarevic, Vareska van de Vrande & Justin Jansen (2023) - When opposites attract: a review and synthesis of corporate-startup collaboration - Industry and Innovation - doi: 10.1080/13662716.2023.2271853 - [link]
- Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Rohit Nishant, Vareska Van De Vrande & Chang Chieh Hang (2022) - Technology transfer from public research institutes to SMEs: A configurational approach to studying reverse knowledge flow benefits - Research Policy, 51 (10) - doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104602 - [link]
- Pepijn van Neerijnen, Michiel P. Tempelaar & Vareska van de Vrande (2022) - Embracing Paradox: TMT paradoxical processes as a steppingstone between TMT reflexivity and organizational ambidexterity - Organization Studies, 43 (11), 1793-1814 - doi: 10.1177/01708406211058640 - [link]
- Angelo Cavallo, Henri Burgers, Antonio Ghezzi & Vareska van de Vrande (2022) - 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]
- 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]
- Jitse Duijsters, Vareska van de Vrande & Rene Bakker (2022) - Getting Away With It: How Do Firms Avoid Damage to Their Network After Allegations of Misconduct? - doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2022.282 - [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]
- 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 (2019) - 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]
- Pengfei Wang, Vareska van de Vrande & Justin Jansen (2017) - Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Inventions: Quality of Inventions and Team Composition - Research Policy, 46 (10), 1836-1850 - doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.09.002 - [link]
- FC Stam & Vareska van de Vrande (2017) - Solopreneurs and the rise of co-working in the Netherlands - [link]
- AM Subramanian, M Levesque & VJA (Vareska) van de Vrande (2021) - Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award
General Counsel Nederland
- Start date approval
- december 2022
- End date approval
- december 2025
- Place
- NEDERLAND
- Description
- masterclass Corporate Venturing
Research Clinic
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BMRCSE-SM
IM Research clinic
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BM-IM-RC
Corporate Venturing
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BM-IM11CC
