Vrande, Vareska van de

Personal

Name:       Vareska van de Vrande
Function:  Assistant Professor
Room:       T07-30
Tel:             010 4082847
Fax:            010 4089013
E-mail:      vvrande@rsm.nl

Research Interests

  • Corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing
  • Strategic management of open innovation
  • Technology management and external technology sourcing
  • Corporate venture capital
  • Strategic alliances
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Biography

Vareska van de Vrande is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the RSM Erasmus University. Vareska holds a MSc and PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her PhD thesis "Not Invented Here: Managing Corporate Innovation in a New Era" deals with the role of uncertainty when choosing between different technology sourcing modes and the effect of using these modes on innovative performance and diversification.

Her research on open innovation focuses on the use of different organizational forms for external technology sourcing, such as corporate venture capital investments, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Other research interests include corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing.

Academic career

2007 - present           Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment, the Netherlands
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
2008 -
present 		École Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, College of Management of Technology, Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, Switzerland
Research fellow
2003-2007 Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, Department of Organisation Science and Marketing, the Netherlands
PhD candidate
- Dissertation title: Not Invented Here: Managing Corporate Innovation in a New Era
- Promotors: Prof.dr. G.M. Duysters, Prof.dr. W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke
1997-2002 M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands


Journal articles


Books and book chapters

  • Van de Vrande, V. (2008), The Importance of Internal Alignment for Open Innovation, In: Gopalakrishnan, P. (Ed, 2008). Open Innovation: The New Business Strategy, Punjagutta (India): The Icfai University Press.
  • Van de Vrande, V. (2007), Not Invented Here: Managing Corporate Innovation in a New Era, PhD dissertation, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
  • Halman, J., Ulijn, J., Van de Vrande, V. and Umbach, F. (2007), The Importance of Cooperation and Support for Technology Start-Ups: A Comparison of the Eindhoven and Darmstadt Areas, In: Ulijn, J., Drillon, D. and Lasch, F. (Eds, 2007). Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Firm: The Emergence and Survival of High Tech Ventures In Europe, Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, pp. 261-287.


Professional publications

  • Van de Vrande, V. and Vanhaverbeke, W. (2006), Innoveren door Externe Innovatie, VMA Jaarboek 2006, pp. 38-45.
  • De Rochemont, M. and Van de Vrande, V. (2006), Open Innovatie en de Rol van Corporate Venture Capital, In J. Sistermans, Open stellingen: Essays over Open Innovatie Den Haag: Quantes, pp 57-64.


Grants, Awards and Recognitions

2009    Academy of Management Conference Best Paper Proceedings
Li, Y., Van de Vrande, V. and Vanhaverbeke, W. The Dual Role of External Corporate Venturing in Technological Exploration
2008 INFORMS TMS Best Dissertation Award: Runner-Up (2 nd place)
TMS is the Technology Management Section of INFORMS, a large academic and professional society in the field of operations research and management science and publisher of a number of topranking journals including Management Science and Organization Science
2007 Teaching award: Best Master Elective in Innovation Management
1ZM40 Strategy and Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2007 Best paper award: International Symposium of Management of Technology
(ISMOT'07) Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, China.
2005 Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation Fellowship
Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC) Doctoral Consortium, Babson College, Wellesly, MA. Grant towards attendance of the BKERC Doctoral Consortium, the BKERC Conference and accommodation.
2004 Society for Advanced Management Studies Fellowship
Summer Intensive Ph.D. Seminar in Entrepreneurship with Professor Scott Shane, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Grant towards attendance of the Summer Intensive PhD Seminar and accommodation.


Teaching


Miscellaneous

  • Chair of the Strategic Symposium 2009 ‘Open Innovation’, October 22, Tilburg.
  • University
  • Guest editor of the International Journal of Technology Management – special issue "Broadening the scope of open innovation" (with Oliver Gassmann and Wim Vanhaverbeke), to be published in 2010.
  • Co-chair of the Open Innovation track at the EURAM 2007 Conference (www.euram2007.org).
  • Co-founder of the European Open Innovation portal ( www.openinnovation.eu) and the Open Innovation portal for the Netherlands and Belgium ( www.openinnovatie.nl).