2026 Reinhilde Veugelers: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	60	528	493	5	4	369	24486
Economics and Finance	60	802	722	5	5	358	23859

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Reinhilde Veugelers is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Political Science and International Relations, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects such as Innovation Policy and R&D, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Technology Assessment and Management, Biomedical and Engineering Education, and Environmental Policies and Emissions.

Recent publications by Reinhilde Veugelers include the following papers:

The Green and Digital Twin Transition: EU vs US Firms (2023), published in Intereconomics
Green Industrial Policy in Europe: Past, Present, and Prospects (2024), published in Journal of Industry Competition and Trade

Other recent relevant papers connected to their research with varying authorship include:

Green tech race? The US Inflation Reduction Act and the EU Net Zero Industry Act (2023), published in World Economy
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions (2021), published in Research Policy
Fostering the Industrial Component of the European Green Deal: Key Principles and Policy Options (2021), published in Intereconomics

The publication venues where Reinhilde Veugelers frequently appears include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Intereconomics
Research Policy
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
World Economy

Collaborations feature prominently in their work, with frequent co-authors being:

Sam Arts
Nicola Melluso
Simone Tagliapietra
Désirée Rückert
Christoph Weiss

Reinhilde Veugelers received recognition as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2015.

Best Publications

In Search of Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition

Bruno Cassiman;Reinhilde Veugelers

3560
Citations
R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence from Belgium

Bruno Cassiman;Reinhilde Veugelers

2082
Citations
Internal R & D expenditures and external technology sourcing

Reinhilde Veugelers

1540
Citations
Make and buy in innovation strategies: evidence from Belgian manufacturing firms

Reinhilde Veugelers;Bruno Cassiman

1533
Citations
Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies

René Belderbos;Martin Carree;Bert Diederen;Boris Lokshin

1316
Citations
The role of academic technology transfer organizations in improving industry science links

Koenraad Debackere;Reinhilde Veugelers

1191
Citations
R&D cooperation between firms and universities. Some empirical evidence from Belgian manufacturing

Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers;Bruno Cassiman;Bruno Cassiman

968
Citations
Technology transfer offices and commercialization of university intellectual property: Performance and policy implications

Donald S. Siegel;Reinhilde Veugelers;Mike Wright

756
Citations
THE IMPACT OF M&A ON THE R&D PROCESS. AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND MARKET RELATEDNESS

Bruno Cassiman;Bruno Cassiman;Massimo G. Colombo;Paola Garrone;Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers

677
Citations
Bias against Novelty in Science: A Cautionary Tale for Users of Bibliometric Indicators

Jian Wang;Jian Wang;Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers;Paula Stephan;Paula Stephan

615
Citations
On Young Highly Innovative Companies: Why They Matter and How (not) to Policy Support Them

Cédric Schneider;Reinhilde Veugelers

463
Citations
Which policy instruments to induce clean innovating

Reinhilde Veugelers

412
Citations
Measuring technological novelty with patent-based indicators

Dennis Verhoeven;Jurriën Bakker;Reinhilde Veugelers

376
Citations
Innovation strategies, process and product innovations and growth: Firm-level evidence from Brazil

Micheline Goedhuys;Reinhilde Veugelers

370
Citations
Licensing of University Inventions: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office

Inés Macho-Stadler;David Pérez-Castrillo;Reinhilde Veugelers

333
Citations
Foreign subsidiaries as a channel of international technology diffusion: Some direct firm level evidence from Belgium

Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers;Bruno Cassiman

290
Citations
Collaboration in R&D: An Assessment of Theoretical and Empirical Findings

Reinhilde Veugelers

290
Citations
In search of performance effects of (in)direct industry-science links

Bruno Cassiman;Reinhilde Veugelers;Pluvia Zuniga

253
Citations
Strategic investment with spillovers

Raymond De Bondt;Reinhilde Veugelers

251
Citations
Multinational knowledge spillovers with decentralised R&D: a game-theoretic approach

Francesca Sanna-Randaccio;Reinhilde Veugelers

244
Citations
The Role of Academic Technology Transfer Organizations in Improving Industry Science Links

Koenraad Debackere;Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Cassiman KU Leuven

Koenraad Debackere KU Leuven

Paula E. Stephan Georgia State University

Rene Belderbos KU Leuven

André Sapir Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie Corvinus University of Budapest

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Bart Van Looy KU Leuven

Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles

Wolfgang Glänzel KU Leuven

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