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V.A. Gilsing


Universitair hoofddocent

TS Social and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Organization Studies

 

Expertise

- Creation of Breakthrough Technologies / Innovations

- Network Evolution & Strategic Technology Alliances

- Corporate Entrepreneurship

Publications

Most recent publications

  • Burg, J.C. van, Gilsing, V.A., Reymen, I.M.M.J., & Romme, G. (2013). The formation of fairness perceptions in the cooperation between entrepreneurs and universities. Journal of Product Innovation Management. Further information
  • Belderbos, R., Gilsing, V.A., & Lokshin, B. (2012). Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical alliances. Journal of Management, 38(6), 1812-1834. Further information
  • Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M., Gilsing, V.A., & Duysters, G. (2012). Competence and governance in strategic collaboration: The differential effect of network structure on the creation of core and non-core technology. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 29(5), 784-802. Further information
  • Gilsing, V.A. (2011). Networks for learning and knowledge creation in biotechnology. (Review of the book Networks for learning and knowledge creation in biotechnology, A.L. Oliver, 2009, 9780521872485). Organization Studies, 32, 1126-1129. Further information
  • Gilsing, V.A., Bekkers, R., & Bodas Freitas, I. (2011). Differences in technology transfer between science-based and development-based industries: Transfer mechanisms and barriers. Technovation, 31(12), 638-647. Further information

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

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Education

Master's

University/College of Higher Education: University of Twente

Main subject: Innovation and Marketing (grade: 9 / Aug. 1993)

Doctorate

University/College of Higher Education: Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Supervisor (Promotor): Prof.dr. B. Nooteboom

Career

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor (UHD 1)

Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (January 2008 - )

Member Management Board Department of Organization Studies

Research Coordinator

Topic Leader Interorganizational Networks

Core Fellow

Centre for Innovation Research (CIR), Tilburg University, The Netherlands (January 2008 - )

Senior Researcher

ECIS / Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The

Netherlands (October 2003 - December 2007)

WORK EXPERIENCE BEFORE ACADEMIA

- Ministry of Economic Affairs: Senior Policy Advisor, Directorate-General for Innovation

Responsibilities entailed policy issues that were strategic to the development of new innovation policy. My duties entailed research on various topics such as innovation in clusters, technology transfer, non-technological aspects of innovation and innovation in services. I also acted as a member of the Scientific Council of the Dutch Aviation Industry, chaired by Prof.dr. A. Kolnaar (crown-member SER) and co-chaired by Prof.drs. Pieter Bouw (former CEO of KLM). I have also acted as the international research leader of a worldwide OECD project on innovation in biotechnology with 16 different countries involved.

Period : May 1998 ? October 2003.

- Unilever: European Sales and Innovation manager

Pan-European responsibility for sales and innovation in the specialty chemicals business of Unilever. Based in Germany. Period : January 1995 ? May 1998.

- Stork Thailand (Bangkok), Management trainee

Design and implementation of a management information system at Stork headquarters in Bangkok. Period: January 1992 ? June 1992 (Grade: 9).

Publications

Most recent publications

  • Burg, J.C. van, Gilsing, V.A., Reymen, I.M.M.J., & Romme, G. (2013). The formation of fairness perceptions in the cooperation between entrepreneurs and universities. Journal of Product Innovation Management. Further information
  • Belderbos, R., Gilsing, V.A., & Lokshin, B. (2012). Persistence of and interrelation between horizontal and vertical alliances. Journal of Management, 38(6), 1812-1834. Further information
  • Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M., Gilsing, V.A., & Duysters, G. (2012). Competence and governance in strategic collaboration: The differential effect of network structure on the creation of core and non-core technology. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 29(5), 784-802. Further information
  • Gilsing, V.A. (2011). Networks for learning and knowledge creation in biotechnology. (Review of the book Networks for learning and knowledge creation in biotechnology, A.L. Oliver, 2009, 9780521872485). Organization Studies, 32, 1126-1129. Further information
  • Gilsing, V.A., Bekkers, R., & Bodas Freitas, I. (2011). Differences in technology transfer between science-based and development-based industries: Transfer mechanisms and barriers. Technovation, 31(12), 638-647. Further information

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Other publications PDF

Projects

NWO-project

Participation in NWO project ?Diversity in technology transfer? with Prof.dr. B. Verspagen

Research focus is on which mix of mechanisms, both formal (e.g. licenses) and informal

(e.g. networking)) is used to transfer new technology from academia to industry in four

different fields of technology (biotechnology, chemistry, mechanical engineering and

telecommunication)

Academic affiliations

Academy of Management

EGOS

External accreditation

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Academy of Management (AOM) Best Paper Award and Nominations

- Best Paper Award 2004 (TIM Division), Local action and innovative performance, together with G. Duysters and W. Vanhaverbeke- Best Paper Nomination 2005 (TIM Division), Cognitive distance and absorptive capacity, together with B. Nooteboom, G. Duysters and W. Vanhaverbeke

- Best Paper Nomination 2005 (TIM Division), "Cognitive distance and absorptive apacity",
together with B. Nooteboom, G. Duysters and W. Vanhaverbeke

- Best Paper Nomination 2006 (BPS Division), The role of strategic technology alliances for strategies of knowledge base broadening and knowledge base deepening, together with W.Vanhaverbeke and G. Duysters

- Best Paper Nomination 2007 (TIM Division), ?Explorative and exploitative learning in technology-based alliance networks, together with W. Vanhaverbeke and G. Duysters

Teaching Awards

- Awarded the Teaching Price for Best Teacher 2007 in the Masters for the course Strategy and Technology Management.

- Awarded the Teaching Price for Best Teacher 2007 in the Pre-Masters for the course Innovation Management.

- Awarded the Teaching Price for Best Teacher 2006 in the Pre-Masters for the course Innovation Management.

Research supervision

Co-promotor

PhD-student: Ad van den Oord

- Promotores: Prof.dr. A. van Witteloostuijn and Prof.dr. G. Duysters

- Topic: A population-ecology based understanding of technological growth

PhD-student: Elco van Burg

- Promotor: Prof.dr. G. Romme

- Topic: Academic entrepreneurship

PhD-student: Michiel Pieters

- Promotores: Prof.dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke and Prof.dr. J. Hagedoorn

- Topic: Strategic technology alliances and cliques

PhD-student: Bob Walrave

- Promotor: Prof.dr. G. Romme

- Topic: Corporate entrepreneurship

Conferences

Invited lectures

- Global OECD-Conference on Networks & Innovation (October 2001, Vienna)

- Global OECD-Conference on National Innovation Systems (April 2002, Oslo)

Key note speaches

- The 5th International Conference on Innovation and Management (ICIM2008)

Maastricht, the Netherlands December 2008. Annually organised by UNUMERIT

(The Netherlands), Wuhan University of Technology (China) and

Yamaguchi University (Japan).

 

Teaching


V.A. Gilsing teaches the following subjects:

Other activities

APPLIED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

1. Syntens

Meten is weten - Tool voor management en diagnose van clusters ? (2004)

Ard-Pieter de Man & Victor Gilsing

Report for Syntens Board

 

2. InnovationLab (TU/e)

Quickcan ter beoordeling van levensvatbaarheid en groeipotentie van spin-offs (2005)

Victor Gilsing & Myriam Cloodt

Report for Director InnovationLab (TU/e)

 

3. Tag (Transforum AgroGroen)

Innovation in Agriculture and Food: the paradox of many cooperatives, yet few

collaborations (2005)

Victor Gilsing & Jos Bijman (WUR)

Report for TAG

 

4. Philips (Corporate Alliance Office)

Alliance Management within Philips (2006)

Victor Gilsing, Myriam Cloodt & Geert Duysters

Report for Prof.dr. J. Bell, Philips Corporate Alliances

 

5. InnovationLab (TU/e)

Creating Corporate and Academic Spinoffs within the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen

Triangle (2007)

Victor Gilsing

Report for Director InnovationLab (TU/e)

Contact details
Room P 1166
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg 
Phone+31 13 466 3402
Secretary+31 13 466 8762
Email v.a.gilsing@tilburguniversity.edu

Universitair hoofddocent
TS Social and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Organization Studies

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Last amended: 13 August 2012
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