Center for Innovation Research

CIR pursues and propagates fundamental research on innovation with a focus on the strategic and organizational dynamics associated with innovation and learning at the organizational, intra-organizational, and inter-organizational levels.

CIR

CIR People

Management Team


Xavier Martin Niels Noorderhaven Marius Meeus Leon Oerlemans


CIR fellows

The Scientific Council
  • Joseph Lampel (City University of London, UK)
  • Daniel Levinthal (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Will Mitchell (Duke University, USA)
  • Claudia Kathryn Schoonhoven (University of California at Irvine, USA)
  • Andrew Van de Ven (University of Minnesota, USA)

prof. dr. Xavier Martin

Key publications:

Cuypers, I. R. P., & Martin, X. (2010). What makes and what does not make a real option? A study of equity shares in international joint ventures. Journal of International Business Studies, 41(1): 47–69.

Shamsie, J., Martin, X., & Miller, D. (2009). In with the old, in with the new: capabilities, strategies, and performance among the Hollywood studios. Strategic Management Journal, 30(13): 1440-1452.

Salomon, R. & Martin, X. (2008). Learning, knowledge transfer, and technology implementation performance: A study of Time-to-Build in the global semiconductor industry. Management Science, 54 (7): 1266-1280.

Kotabe, M., Martin, X., & Domoto, H. (2003). Gaining from vertical partnerships: Knowledge transfer, relationship duration and supplier performance improvement in the U.S. and Japanese automotive industries. Strategic Management Journal, 24 (4): 293-316.

Martin, X. & Salomon, R. (2003). Tacitness, learning and international expansion: A study of foreign direct investment in a knowledge-intensive industry. Organization Science , 14 (3): 297-311.

Martin, X. & Salomon, R. (2003). Knowledge transfer capacity and its implications for the theory of the multinational corporation. Journal of International Business Studies, 34 (4): 356-373.

Martin, X. & Mitchell, W. (1998). The influence of local search and performance heuristics on new design introduction in a new product market. Research Policy, 26 (8): 753-771.

Martin, X., Swaminathan, A., & Mitchell, W. (1998). Organizational evolution in an interorganizational environment: Incentives and constraints on international expansion strategy. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43 (3): 566-601.

prof. dr. Marius Meeus

Marius T.H. Meeus (1957) is Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Organization Learning at Tilburg University, Department of Organization as of dec 2006. From 2001 to 2006 he was Professor of Innovation and Organization at Utrecht University, in the Department of Innovation Sciences. From 1990 - 2001 he was assistant and associate professor at the Faculty of Technology Management at Eindhoven University.
Meeus served on the boards of all these Departments as program leader, and was involved in founding of ECIS, the Copernicus Institute for sustainability and innovation, and now is director of CIR. Together with Prof. Jerald Hage he has edited Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change (Oxford University Press 2006).
Meeus published on issues of R&D management, Innovation Systems, Innovation Networks, Organizational change, Innovative performance and Interactive Learning, biotechnology, environmental innovation, hydrogen .research, transition trajectories, high performance organizations, IPO's etc.
Together with David and Amalya Oliver, Meeus is organizer of the Standing Working Group Organization Network Research at EGOS as of 2002; he contributed to conferences and reports of the Dutch Innovation Platform, as a member of Utrecht Innovation Partner (part of Utrecht Taskforce of Innovation) he selected start-ups, acted as a lecturer in the Impulss program for Biotech Start-ups, and he contributed to the Annual Reports of the Dutch Biopartner Network 2001-2005, he contributes to the TIAS Nimbas executive programs.

Key publications:

Toelch, U., Delft, M.L.E. van, Bruce, M.J., Donders, R., Meeus, M.T.H. & Reader, S.M. (2009). Decreased environmental variability induces a bias for social information use in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30 (1), 32-40.

Chappin, M.H., Hekkert, M.H., Meeus, M.T.H. & Vermeulen, W.J.V.(2008), The intermediary role of an industry association in policy-making processes: the case of Dutch paper and board industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 (14), 1462-1473.

Willemstein, L., Van der Valk, T., & Meeus, M.T.H. (2007) Dynamics in business models: an empirical analysis of medical biotechnology firm in the Netherlands. Technovation , 27, 221-232.

Hekkert, M.P., van Giessel, JF, Ros, M., Wietschel, M. & Meeus, M.T.H. (2005) The evolution of hydrogen research: Is Germany heading for an early lock-in? International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 30, 1045-1052.

Meeus, M.T.H., Oerlemans, L.A.G., & Hage, J. (2004). Industry - Public Knowledge Infrastructure Interaction: intra- and inter-organizational explanations of interactive learning. Industry and Innovation, 11 (4), 327-352.

Meeus, M.T.H., Oerlemans, L.A.G. & Hage, J. (2001) Sectoral patterns of interactive learning. An empirical exploration of a case in a Dutch region. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 13 (3), 407-431.

Meeus, M.T.H., Oerlemans, L.A.G. & Hage, J. (2001) Patterns of Interactive Learning in a High Tech Region. An empirical exploration of an extended resource-based model. Organization Studies , 22 (1), 145-172.

Meeus, M.T.H. & Oerlemans, L.A.G., (2000) Firm Behaviour and Innovative Performance: An empirical exploration of the selection-adaptation debate. Research Policy , 29 (1), 41-58.

prof. dr. Niels Noorderhaven

Niels Noorderhaven (1955) is Professor of International Management (since 1997). His research focuses on (international) cooperation in business, with a special interest in issues of culture, trust, interorganizational learning and innovation strategy. His teaching is in the areas of Comparative Management, International Business, Organization Theory, and Strategy.

Key publications:

Melkonian, T., Monin, P., & Noorderhaven, N.G. (2011) Distributive justice, procedural justice, exemplarity, and employees' willingness to cooperate in M&A integration processes: An analysis of the Air France-KLM merger. Human Resource Management (forthcoming).

Janowicz-Panjaitan, M., & Noorderhaven, N.G. (2009) Trust, calculation and interorganizational learning of tacit knowledge: An organizational roles perspective. Organization Studies 30: 1021-1044.

Noorderhaven, N.G., and Harzing, A.W. (2009) Knowledge sharing and social interaction within MNCs. Journal of International Business Studies 40: 719-741.

Janowicz-Panjaitan, M.K., and Noorderhaven, N.G. (2008) Formal and informal learning in alliances. Research Policy 37: 1337-1355.

Krishnan, R., Martin, X. and Noorderhaven, N.G. (2006) When does interorganizational trust matter to strategic alliance performance? Academy of Management Journal 49: 894-917.

prof. dr. Leon Oerlemans

Leon Oerlemans is Professor of Organizational Dynamics in the Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, Faculty of Social Sciences, the Netherlands. He is also Extraordinary Professor Economics of Innovation at the University of Pretoria, Department of Engineering and Technology Management, South Africa. He holds a PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology (1996). His research focuses on the analysis of innovative behavior of organizations and can be characterized as theory-based empirical research. Research topics include systems of innovation, temporary organizations, interactive learning and inter-organizational relationships and networks.

Key publications

Knoben, J., & Oerlemans, L.A.G. (2011) Configurations of inter-organizational knowledge links: Does spatial embeddedness still matter? Regional Studies (forthcoming)

Oerlemans, L.A.G. & Knoben, J. (2010) Antecedents of configurations of innovative inter-organizational Relations. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 27 (1/2): 33 - 51.

Knoben, J., Oerlemans, L.A.G., & Rutten, R.(2008) The effects of spatial firm mobility on firm performance. Economic Geography , 84 (2): 57 - 183.

Knoben, J., & Oerlemans, L.A.G. (2006) Proximity and Inter-organizational Collaboration: A Literature Review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 8 (2): 71 - 89.

Oerlemans, L.A.G. & Meeus, M.T.H. (2005) Do Organizational and Spatial Proximity Impact of Firm Performance. Regional Studies, 39(1): 88 -104.

Meeus, M., Oerlemans, L.A.G.& Hage, J. (2004) Industry - Public Knowledge Infrastructure Interaction: intra- and inter-organizational explanations ofinteractive learning. Industry and Innovation, 11 (4): 327 - 352.