Scientific

I have acted as an ad hoc referee for the following journals and conferences:

Academy of Management annual conferences, CESIfo Economic Studies, the DRUID conferences, Educational Research and Evaluation, Empirical Economics, Growth & Change, Industry & Innovation, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Latin American Journal of Economics, PLOS ONE, Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, The Economic Journal, The Review of Business and Economics, Strategic Management Society annual conferences, the ZEW/MACCI Conferences on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting.

I received the following recognition for my review work:

• the Best Reviewer award at the 2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division (25 out of 706 reviewers).

• the Outstanding Reviewer award, 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Strategic Management division (top 5% of reviewers).

• the Best Reviewer award, Behavioral strategy IG, 2016 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Berlin

Since 2020 I am a member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, an open science platform. I'm the guest editor for special issue “How to Play the Science Game? Insights on Scientific Teams” for Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2021 (co-editors: C. Lopes-Bento (FNR/KU Leuven), F. Visentin (Maastricht U), C. Lawson (U of Manchester))

I have been a (co-)supervisor or committee member for the following PhD students:

• Kristof Decock (KU Leuven, committee member), expected 2021.

• Thomas Schaper (KU Leuven, committee member), expected 2020.

• Maarten Rabijns (KU Leuven, co-supervisor): Essays on strategic IP, Public defense 16 December 2020.

• Marcelina Grabowska (KU Leuven, supervisor): Essays on innovation in multinational enterprises: R&D organization, knowledge transfer and global mindset, Public Defense 14 December 2020.

• Nazlihan Ugur (KU Leuven, committee member): Exploration and exploitation strategies of large technology-based firms, expected 2020.

• Jeroen Mahieu (KU Leuven, committee member): The Returns to Entrepreneurship in the Labor Market, public defense 26 August 2020.

• Relinde Colen (KU Leuven, co-supervisor): Prescribing science: how science influences innovation in pharmaceutical firms?, Public defense 27 September 2018.

• Federico De Michiel (KU Leuven, committee member): Essays on innovation and multinational firms. Public defense 21 September 2018.

• Wytse Joosten (KU Leuven, committee member): Higher education institutions. Empirical essays on student exchange programs and competitive research funding. Public defense 20 September 2018.

• Sebastian Hoenen (Wageningen University, committee member): Four essays on resource acquisition in the knowledge economy, Public defense 17 April 2018.

• Paul-Emmanuel Anckaert (KU Leuven, committee member): Moving ideas to impact: essays on industry-science linkages & knowledge translation, Public defense 11 January 2018.

• Daniel Neicu (KU Leuven, supervisor): Learning how to behave. An analysis of the behavioural changes induced by public support for R&D, Public defense 31 August 2016.

• Shanqing (Helen) Du (KU Leuven, committee member): Global Cities and Multinational Firms’ FDI Location Decisions, Public defense 26 August 2016.

• Ning Wang (Universiteit Maastricht, committee member): Internal R&D, External R&D, and Firm Innovation. Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry, Public defense 11 February 2015.

• Maikel Pellens (KU Leuven, co-supervisor): The motives and careers of scientists, Public defense 18 September 2014.

I co-organized the following workshops and conferences:

• The SEI 2019 Doctoral Consortium in Leuven, an initiative of leading business schools to stimulate the European academic labor market.

• The R&D Management Conference (RADMA, 2017, Leuven, organizing committee, +/- 150 participants). I also co-organized the 2-day doctoral colloquium for +/- 20 PhD students.

• In November 2017, I co-organized the Technology and Innovation Community (TIC) meeting in Leuven, bringing together +/- 25 innovation scholars from the Netherlands and Flanders.

• The European Conference on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (2013, Brussels, co-chairman, +/- 100 participants).

Administrative

My main administrative responsibilities include:

• From 2016-2020, I was the chairman of the department of Management, Strategy & Innovation of the KU Leuven on its Brussels campus.

• From 2012-2015, I chaired the department Globalization, Innovation & Competition at the HUB.

• From 2009 to 2016, I was a member of the Education Committee (POC) for the Business Engineering program on the Brussels campus, and the coordinator for the learning track ‘science & technology’.