
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.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- H Burgers & Vareska van de Vrande (2016) - Who is the corporate entrepreneur? Insights from opportunity discovery and creation theory - [link]
- S Brunswicker & Vareska van de Vrande (2014) - Exploring Open Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
- N Hynes & Vareska van de Vrande (2013) - When going Dutch means a free lunch: how Australians could build social capital. - Unknown
- Vareska van de Vrande (2013) - Walking the knowledge tightrope - RSM Insight, 15 (3), 16-17 - [link]
- Vareska van de Vrande (2012) - Balancing your technology-sourcing portfolio: How sourcing mode diversity enhances innovative performance - Strategic Management Journal, 34 (5), 610-621 - doi: 10.1002/smj.2031 - [link]
- Vareska van de Vrande & W Vanhaverbeke (2012) - How prior corporate venture capital investments shape technological alliances: A real options approach - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37 (5), 1019-1043 - doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2012.00526.x - [link]
- MP Tempelaar & Vareska van de Vrande (2012) - Dynamism, Munificence, Internal and External Exploration-Exploitation and Their Performance Effects
- Evgenia Dolgova, S Ben-Menahem, P Neerijnen & Vareska van de Vrande (2012) - The Emergence of Team Proactiveness.
- AM Subramanian, M Levesque & VJA (Vareska) van de Vrande (2021) - Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award
Venture Cafe Rotterdam
- Begindatum goedkeuring
- april 2020
- Einddatum goedkeuring
- april 2023
- Plaats
- ROTTERDAM
Business Law
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- bachelor 2, bachelor 3, pre-master
- Course Code
- BT2109
NIE
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- BMA2108
NIE1, New Business: I & E
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- BMA3140
NIE2, Majorgebonden Methodologie Seminar
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- BMA3160
IM Research clinic
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- BM-IM-RC
Corporate Venturing
- Level
- master
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- master
- Course Code
- BM-IM11CC