TSI Consultant: Prof. dr. Aard Groen

 

Name:	Prof. dr. Aard Groen
Position:	Scientific director of the Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship (NIKOS) of the University of Twente
Address:	P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands
Tel. No.:	+31 53 489 2885
Fax No.:	+31 53 489 2159
E-Mail:	mailto:a.j.groen@utwente.nl

Qualifications:	Groen’s research interest is focusing on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship in networks. He published in journals & books on entrepreneurship, marketing, university-industry interaction and innovation & technology dynamics. Groen is head of the department  in which the chairs of entrepreneurship strategic management, marketing, and international management are positioned. Groen received his master in public administration from the University of Twente, and his Ph-D on business administration from the University of Groningen.
Specialist Areas:	Vision on entrepreneurship research: describing, explaining, and predicting processes of creating market oriented venture ideas, business concepts and growth of exploitation, based on social system theory. Leading the development of this approach into a new multi-level-multidimensional, and multi actor perspective on market oriented entrepreneurship. Methodological approach is neo-functionalistic, thriving on tensions between neo-positivistic and moderately constructivist methods of action research versus (quasi-) experimentation, using case studies, surveys as well as large quantitative databases.
Language Skills:	Dutch - mother tongue German - very good English - good French - basic
Publications	see list