Victor A. Gilsing is a Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the department of Management and Organisation of the Vrije Universiteit, and also at Department of Management, Faculty of Applied Economics at Antwerp University. 

• Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation -
• Top Management Teams & Innovation -
• External Collaboration & the Creation of Breakthrough Innovations
• Digital transformation of established firms

His academic research has been published in ISI top journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Technovation, R&D Management and others.

He has extensive experience in teaching for both PhD and Master students as well as for (senior) executives, non-executive directors, corporate and independent venture managers, on topics such as corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, innovation strategy and external collaboration.

For the period of 2015 until 2022, he has received a prestigious Odysseus research grant from the Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) for a research program on the role of Top Managers, its Board of Directors and a Firm´s ability to create Innovations and Technological Breakthroughs.

Over the years, he has received various International Research Awards and Best Teacher Awards.

• Universiteit Antwerpen | Antwerpen | Medewerker | 2018-10-01 - present
• Dekker Groep | Zevenhuizen | Commissaris | 2019-02-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

Research Awards & Nominations

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 2006 (BPS Division), ‘The role of strategic technology alliances for
   strategies of knowledge exploration and exploitation 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  

- Best Paper Nomination 2008 (TIM Division),‘Network embeddedness and the exploration
  of novel technologies: technological distance, betweenness centrality and density’, together with B.
  Nooteboom, W. Vanhaverbeke and G. Duysters 


- Best Student Paper Nomination 2011 (TIM Division), ‘The relationship between novelty and impact
  of radical innovations’, S. Keijl, V. Gilsing, J. Knoben and G.M. Duysters

- Best Paper Nomination 2016 (BPS Division), ´The effect of knowledge decomposability on
  technological exploration in technological acquisitions, Zhengyu Li, Victor Gilsing & Geert Duysters

- Best Paper Nomination 2017 (BPS Division), ´Efficient redundancy: how socio-cognitive structures
  impact innovation under complex conditions´, Juan Candiani, Arjen Markus & Victor Gilsing.

Other Research Awards and Nominations

-  Best Paper Nomination European Innovation Award 2009
   Creating university spin-offs: a science-based design perspective, A.G. Romme, J.C.  van Burg, V. Gilsing
   and I. Reymen

-  Award for Academic Excellence 2013
    Unraveling the mechanisms of absorptive capacity and technological performance: a study of   
    inward licensing, Z. Li, V. Gilsing and G. Duysters, 25^th Annual Conference of the Society for
    the Advancement of Socioeconomics

-  Best Conference PhD Paper Award 2014
    Unraveling the mechanisms of absorptive capacity and technological performance, Z. Li, V.
    Gilsing and G. Duysters, Int. Association. for Chinese Management Research

- Best Paper Nomination by the Innovation SIG of EURAM 2018
  Managing the Coordination-Specialization Dilemma for Innovation: the moderating role of
  managerial human capital, N. van der Wal, V. Gilsing & C. Boone

Research Impact Award of Department of  Organization Studies, Tilburg University

2012:   Persistence of and inter-relation between horizontal and vertical alliances, R.
            Belderbos, V. Gilsing and B. Lokshin, 2012, Journal of Management

Teaching Awards and Evaluations

- Awarded the Second Price for Best Teacher 2006 in the Pre-Masters for ‘Innovation
  Management’, Eindhoven University of Technology.

- Awarded the First Teaching Price for Best Teacher 2007 in the Masters for ‘Strategy and
  Technology Management’, Eindhoven University of Technology.

- Awarded the First Teaching Price for Best Teacher 2007 in the Pre-Masters for ‘Innovation
   Management’, Eindhoven University of Technology.

- Awarded the First Prize for Best Course in the Masters 2010 - 2011 for ‘Organizing Strategy
   and Entrepreneurship’, Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University

- Awarded the First Prize for Best Course in the Masters 2011 - 2012 for ‘Inter-organizational
   Relations’, Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University

- Awarded the First Prize for Best Course in the Masters 2012 - 2013 for ‘Inter-organizational
   Relations’, Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University

Research Masters

- Evaluations by Research Master students average around 4.4 to 5.0 on a scale from 1 to 5
  (Period: 2008 - 2013)