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Bart Van Looy

Bart Van Looy

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
44
Citations
12508
World Ranking
1335
National Ranking
14

Overview

Bart Van Looy is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans various subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to Innovation and Knowledge Management, Innovation Policy and R&D, Intellectual Property and Patents, Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, University-Industry-Government Innovation Models, and Big Data and Business Intelligence.

Bart Van Looy has authored several papers across diverse publication venues. Recent publications include:

  • The role of policies and the contribution of cluster agency in the development of biotech open innovation ecosystem (2020), Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Simultaneous experimentation as a learning strategy: Business model development under uncertainty-Relevance in times of COVID-19 and beyond (2020), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Knowledge recombination, environmental turbulence and firms' innovation quality: the evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical industry (2022), European Journal of Innovation Management
  • Effective business model adaptation strategies for new technology-based ventures (2024), Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Scenario-driven forecasting: modeling peaks and paths. Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium (2020), Scientometrics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Scientometrics
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • European Journal of Innovation Management

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Koenraad Debackere
  • Julie Callaert
  • Vesna Vlaisavljevic
  • Petra Andries
  • Kristof Decock

Bart Van Looy's research integrates multidisciplinary approaches to address issues in innovation management and policy, with particular emphasis on how organizations adapt business models under conditions of uncertainty and environmental turbulence.

Their work also encompasses modeling and forecasting firms' innovation trajectories, as well as exploring the role of cluster agencies in fostering biotech open innovation ecosystems. The analysis of firm-level responses during the COVID-19 pandemic is a recent aspect of their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Interorganizational collaboration and innovation: Toward a portfolio approach

    Dries Faems;Bart Van Looy;Koenraad Debackere

  • Toward An Integrative Perspective on Alliance Governance: Connecting Contract Design, Trust Dynamics, and Contract Application

    Dries Faems;Maddy Janssens;Anoop Madhok;Anoop Madhok;Bart Van Looy

  • Servitization: Disentangling the impact of service business model innovation on manufacturing firm performance

    Ivanka Visnjic Kastalli;Ivanka Visnjic Kastalli;Bart Van Looy

  • Technology Alliance Portfolios and Financial Performance: Value-Enhancing and Cost-Increasing Effects of Open Innovation*

    Dries Faems;Matthias de Visser;Petra Andries;Bart Van Looy

  • Combining entrepreneurial and scientific performance in academia: towards a compounded and reciprocal Matthew-effect?

    Bart Van Looy;Marina Ranga;Marina Ranga;Julie Callaert;Koenraad Debackere

  • Simultaneous Experimentation as a Learning Strategy: Business Model Development Under Uncertainty

    Petra Andries;Koenraad Debackere;Bart van Looy

  • Entrepreneurial effectiveness of European universities: An empirical assessment of antecedents and trade-offs

    Bart Van Looy;Paolo Landoni;Julie Callaert;Bruno van Pottelsberghe

  • Publication and patent behavior of academic researchers: Conflicting, reinforcing or merely co-existing?

    Bart Van Looy;Julie Callaert;Koenraad Debackere

  • Services Management: An Integrated Approach

    Paul Gemmel;Roland Van Dierdonck;Bart Van Looy

  • Technological Diversification, Coherence, and Performance of Firms

    Bart Leten;Rene Belderbos;Rene Belderbos;Bart Van Looy

  • Co-ownership of intellectual property: Exploring the value-appropriation and value-creation implications of co-patenting with different partners

    René Belderbos;René Belderbos;Bruno Cassiman;Bruno Cassiman;Bruno Cassiman;Driems Faems;Driems Faems;Bart Leten

  • Technological Activities and Their Impact on the Financial Performance of the Firm: Exploitation and Exploration within and between Firms*

    Rene Belderbos;Dries Faems;Bart Leten;Bart Van Looy

  • Traces of Prior Art: An analysis of non-patent references found in patent documents

    Julie Callaert;Bart Van Looy;Arnold Verbeek;Koenraad Debackere

  • Organizing for Continuous Innovation: On the Sustainability of Ambidextrous Organizations

    Bart Van Looy;Thierry Martens;Koenraad Debackere

  • Policies to stimulate regional innovation capabilities via university-industry collaboration: an analysis and an assessment

    Bart Van Looy;Koenraad Debackere;Petra Andries

  • Simultaneous experimentation as a learning strategy: Business model development under uncertainty—Relevance in times of COVID ‐19 and beyond

    Petra Andries;Koenraad Debackere;Bart Van Looy

  • Steering Manufacturing Firms Towards Service Business Model Innovation

    Ivanka Visnjic Kastalli;Bart Van Looy;Andy Neely

  • Structural ambidexterity in NPD processes: A firm-level assessment of the impact of differentiated structures on innovation performance

    Matthias de Visser;Petronella C. de Weerd-Nederhof;D.L.M. Faems;Michael Song

  • Exploring the scope of open innovation: a bibliometric review of a decade of research

    Adrián Kovács;Bart Looy;Bruno Cassiman

  • Science or graduates: How do firms benefit from the proximity of universities?

    Bart Leten;Paolo Landoni;Bart Van Looy

  • The Initiation and Evolution of Interfirm Knowledge Transfer in R&D Relationships

    Dries Faems;Maddy Janssens;Bart van Looy

  • Publication and Patent Behaviour of Academic Researchers: Conflicting, Reinforcing or Merely Co-Existing?

    Bart Van Looy;Julie Callaert;Koenraad Debackere;Koenraad Debackere

  • Service Management: An integrated approach

    Paul Gemmel;Roland Van Dierdonck;Bart Van Looy

Frequent Co-Authors

Dries Faems
Dries Faems WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Alberto Di Minin
Alberto Di Minin Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Dominique Foray
Dominique Foray École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Andy Neely
Andy Neely University of Cambridge
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research
Chris Steyaert
Chris Steyaert University of St. Gallen

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