prof.dr. VJA (Vareska) van de Vrande

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

Full professor | Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
Email
vvrande@rsm.nl

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Work

  • Vareska van de Vrande (19 May 2021) - Corporate venturing: The way for Businesses to Survive and Innovate during the Pandemic
  • Vareska van de Vrande (5 May 2021) - The key to innovation during the pandemic is corporate venturing, reveals new research – and this is what it is'

  • AM Subramanian, M Levesque & VJA (Vareska) van de Vrande (2021) - Ralph Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper Award

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Start date approval
December 2022
End date approval
December 2025
Place
NEDERLAND
Description
masterclass Corporate Venturing

Research Clinic

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2024
Course Code
BMRCSE-SM

IM Research clinic

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2024
Course Code
BM-IM-RC

  • Pengfei Wang

    Innovation, Status, and Networks
  • Jitse Duijsters

    Change in Inter-Organizational Relationship Portfolios and Social Networks in the Context of Corporate Venturing
  • Jitse Duijsters

    Change in Inter-Organizational Relationship Portfolios and Social Networks in the Context of Corporate Venturing
  • Jasper Heeren

    Project Jasper Heeren
  • Robert Suurmond

    In Pursuit of Supplier Knowledge: Leveraging capabilities and dividing responsibilities in product and service contexts
  • Hesam Fasaei

    Changing the Narrative: The Behavioral Effects of Social Evaluations on the Decision Making of Organizations
  • Tatjana Schneidmüller

    Engaging with Emerging Technologies: Socio-cognitive foundations of incumbent response
  • Mohammad Taghi Ramezan Zadeh

    How firms cope with digital revolution
  • Stefan Breet

    A Network Perspective on Corporate Entrepreneurship: How Workplace Relationships Influence Entrepreneurial Behavior
  • Katharina Badenhausen

    IoT – Inducing Organizational Transformation?
  • Pragathi Mavinakere Swamygowda

    Disengagement in Corporate Accelerators
  • Ajlin Dizdarevic

    Corporate-startup collaboration: a new way of organizing to innovate
  • Gauri Sharma

    PhD in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Agnieszka Genc

    The Triad of Innovation: Exploring Management Innovation, Business Model Innovation, and Ownership in Unlocking Firms’ Innovative Potential
  • Dana Hanouni

    PhD in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Klementine Klein

    PhD in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

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"This can be a great time to start your business"

Crisis, what crisis? The pandemic also brings great business opportunities for startups with innovative ideas, explains Vareska van de Vrande in the EURcast.
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