Curriculum vitae

• Consultant, ERAC (1994–2001): regional innovation policy; SWOT analyses; regional innovation strategies; process management with regional stakeholders; experience across EU regions.
• PhD Student, Tilburg University (1996–2001): inter-firm collaboration on new product development; buyer–supplier network in Dutch manufacturing industry; focus on knowledge creation, governance, network structure, spatial proximity; graduation 24 May 2002.

• (Vice-)Chair of the examining board — Vice-chair (01.01.2015–30.11.2017); Chair (01.12.2017–present). Focus: exam regulations & policy, professionalization of the board, strengthening examination quality; online examination rules/guidelines during COVID-19 in coordination with multiple university stakeholders.
• Member, BKO-committee (2015–present): assessing education portfolios; awarding UTQ/BKO and SKO certificates; policies to increase BKO coverage; criteria for SKO.
• Workgroup qualitative methods teaching (March 2021): de facto chair; assessed deficiencies; identified key qualitative methods; proposed skills and curriculum outline.
• Education coordinator, Bachelor Organization Studies (spring 2018–present): coherence between learning lines.
• Director of Education, Bachelor Organization Studies (2008–2011): programme operations, coherence, innovation; involvement in School-level education policy.

Wide experience teaching and supervising Bachelor & Master students; designing and renewing courses; course coordination; UTQ/BKO (June 2015) and Senior UTQ/SKO (May 2018).

Selected courses taught

• Innovation and Organization (course coordinator; designed and re-designed multiple times)
• Inter-Organizational Relationships (module on inter-organizational project teams)
• Economic Sociology (co-teacher)
• Master Seminar Organization Studies (re-designed; student-thesis supervisor assignment)
• Organization Theory (co-teacher)
• International Organization (module on regional organizations)
• Project Assignment B (supervised student teams; coordinated with contributing courses)
• Advice, Intervention and Evaluation (co-designed initial version)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (modules on globalization and innovation)
• Academic Skills (re-designed to include methods training, interactive elements, later professional skills)

1. The organization of knowledge creation — social structures and institutions enabling/constraining knowledge creation; focus on individuals as principal agents.
2. Causal explanation and the case-based method — linking critical realist causality to case-based inference; emphasis on QCA, set theory, Boolean algebra; contrasts with variable-based statistics.
3. The interaction between social space and physical place — economic geography of knowledge creation; how social spaces connect to physical places; links to regional innovation and inequality.

PhD supervision (selected)

• Jameson Lingl (ISS, The Hague) — start May 2023 — topic: racial discrimination as a zero-sum game (de facto first supervisor).
• Cecile Verhaar (Tilburg University) — start Sep 2022 — topic: dynamics of regional development networks (daily co-supervisor).
• Sorkun Terzi (Tilburg University) — start Oct 2021 — topic: organizational knowledge creation (daily supervisor).
• Earlier completions include: Jos van den Broek (defence 11.10.2018), Aradom Gebrekidan (28.11.2016), Roland Levering (07.01.2015), Rik Ligthart (11.04.2014), Joris Knoben (14.09.2007).

PhD committees / external examiner (selected)

• Kelly Alexander — defence 11.09.2023 (Tilburg University)
• Anna-Mateja Punstein — defence 09.07.2020 (Heidelberg University)
• Mohd Hussin — defence 30.06.2012 (Newcastle University)

• Organized “The Learning Region” conference series (1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) and Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks conference (2011).
• Keynotes: IRS Spring Academy (Erkner/Berlin, 4–7 June 2019); Making of innovation workshop (London, 21–22 Aug 2019).
• Recent conferences include QCA Conference of the Americas (2023), International QCA experts workshop (multiple years), RSA Winter Conference, AAG, EGOS, GCEG, etc.

Impact (selected)

• ERAC workshops on policy evaluation methodology and consultancy research methods (selected years listed in PDF).
• Expert advice: Smart Specialization Strategy Chemical sector (S3 Chem) — Province of Limburg (2019).
• Regional benchmarking and policy evaluation studies; societal relevance study of Tilburg region public library (2019).

Esteem indicators (selected)

• Invited speaker: Winter School for advanced qualitative methodology and theorizing in Economic Geography (Bern, 6–10 Feb 2023).
• Editorial Board member: Progress in Economic Geography (2022–present).
• Multiple teaching awards across years (as listed in the PDF).

Service (selected)

• Service to university: Faculty Council (2002–2010), examining board member (2004–2015), education committee (2015–2018), etc.
• Service to academic field: journal reviewing, conference session chair roles, committee roles, QCA tutorial for PhD students (30 June 2023).
• Service to community: long-term involvement in local political party organization and civic support roles (2000–2020).