Reinhilde Veugelers

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Reinhilde Veugelers (born 5 June 1963) is a Flemish economist and Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium, known for her theory on R&D and innovation. She is a proud mother of two daughters. [1]

Biography

Born in Hasselt, Veugelers received her PhD in Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on the thesis entitled "Scope Decisions of Multinational Enterprises".[2]

She has been a visiting scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, New York University Stern School of Business, ECARES/Université libre de Bruxelles, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Pompeu Fabra University & Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Maastricht University.

With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy and innovation, she has authored publications on multinationals, R&D cooperation and alliances, industry-science links, and market integration in academic journals. She obtained research grants from the Belgian Science Policy Office, the European Union (DG Research and DG ECFIN), and the Flemish Government (VRWB-IWT).

From 2004-2008 she was on academic leave, as advisor at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. She is currently a senior fellow at Bruegel, a CEPR research fellow, and a member of commissioner Potocnik's "Knowledge for Growth" expert group. She is also "co-promotor" for the Flemish Government "Steunpunt" on R&D Statistics.

Selected Publications

  • 1990. Scope Decisions of Multinational Enterprises. Phd thesis Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Articles, a selection:

  • Veugelers, Reinhilde. "Internal R & D expenditures and external technology sourcing." Research policy 26.3 (1997): 303-315.
  • Cassiman, Bruno, and Reinhilde Veugelers. "R&D cooperation and spillovers: some empirical evidence from Belgium." The American Economic Review 92.4 (2002): 1169-1184.
  • Cassiman, Bruno, and Reinhilde Veugelers. "In search of complementarity in innovation strategy: internal R&D and external knowledge acquisition." Management science 52.1 (2006): 68-82.

References

  1. Belderbos, René, et al. "Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies." International Journal of Industrial Organization 22.8 (2004): 1237-1263.
  2. CURRICULUM VITAE: REINHILDE VEUGELERS 4/10/2010

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