Weterings, Anet


Function Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Room T11-53
Tel +31(0) 10 408 2618
Email: AWeterings@rsm.nl


Personal information

Anet Weterings is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing. She is also employed at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency as senior researcher economics.

Research interests

  • Inter-organisational relationships and knowledge transfer
  • Regional differences in entry, exit and innovative performance
  • Spin-offs
  • Firm relocations


Education

2006 PhD in Economic Geography, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
2001 Master Degree in Economic Geography, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.


Publications

  • Weterings, A. & R. Boschma (2009), User-producer interaction in the Dutch software industry: does spatial proximity matter? Research Policy, 38, pp. 746-755.
  • Weterings, A. & R. Ponds (2009), Do regional and non-regional knowledge flows differ? An empirical study on clustered firms in life sciences and computing services. Industry & Innovation, 16 (1), pp.11-31.
  • Knoben, J. & A. Weterings (forthcoming), Employment dynamics on business estates. Accepted for publication in European Planning Studies.
  • Weterings, A. & S. Koster (2007), Inheriting knowledge and sustaining relationships: what stimulates the innovative performance of software firms in the Netherlands? Research Policy 36, 3, pp. 320-335.
  • Weterings, A.B.R. (2006) Do firms benefit from spatial proximity? Testing the relation between spatial proximity and the performance of small software firms in the Netherlands. NGS 336, Utrecht: Knag/Faculteit Geowetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht. PhD. thesis.
  • Boschma, R.A. & Weterings, A.B.R. (2005), The effect of regional differences on the performance of software firms in the Netherlands. Journal of Economic Geography, 5 (5), pp. 567-588.
  • Van Oort, F., A. Weterings & H. Verlinde (2003), Residential amenities of knowledge workers and the location of ICT firms in the Netherlands. TESG, 94 (4), pp. 516-523.


Book chapters

  • Weterings, A.B.R. & R.A. Boschma (2006), The impact of geography on the innovative productivity of software firms in the Netherlands. In: P. Cooke and A. Piccaluga (eds.), Regional development in the knowledge economy, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 63-83.
  • Weterings, A. (2005), The spatial clustering of knowledge-intensive services: computing services in the Netherlands. In: Boschma, R.A. & R. Kloosterman (eds.), Clustering, learning and regional development. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Weterings, A. & F. van Oort (2004), Ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse ICT-servicesector. In Stam, E., Hulsink, W. & D. Manuel (eds.) Ondernemen en Netwerken. Nieuwe en groeiende bedrijven in de Informatiesamenleving. Assen: Van Gorcum.


Teaching

Innovative Entrepreneurship, Foundations of Entrepreneurship (geography)