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Wim Vanhaverbeke

Wim Vanhaverbeke

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Business and Management
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
56
Citations
21397
World Ranking
683
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Wim Vanhaverbeke is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with a notable concentration on Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Communication, Computer Science Applications, and Accounting as key subfields.

Their work prominently addresses topics related to Innovation and Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, University-Industry-Government Innovation Models, Open Source Software Innovations, Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis, Business Strategy and Innovation, and Knowledge Management and Sharing.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Wim Vanhaverbeke are:

  • How does digital transformation empower knowledge creation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises, 2024, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge
  • The dark side of open innovation: Individual affective responses as hidden tolls of the paradox of openness, 2021, Journal of Business Research
  • Trajectories towards balancing value creation and capture: Resolution paths and tension loops in open innovation projects, 2020, International Journal of Project Management
  • Managing business-to-business open innovation: A project-level approach, 2021, Industrial Marketing Management
  • 40 years of excellence: An overview of Technovation and a roadmap for future research, 2021, Technovation

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (6 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Industrial Marketing Management (2 publications)
  • Technovation (2 publications)
  • Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (1 publication)

Collaborators who frequently co-author with Vanhaverbeke include Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Agnieszka Radziwon, Ioana Stefan, Henry Chesbrough, and Joel West.

Wim Vanhaverbeke has also contributed to academic literature through authored books published by notable academic publishers. Among these is The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation (2024) published by Oxford University Press, and Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy (2025) published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Open innovation : researching a new paradigm

    Henry Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Joel West

  • Open innovation: The next decade

    Joel West;Ammon Salter;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Henry W. Chesbrough;Henry W. Chesbrough

  • New frontiers in open innovation

    Henry Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Joel West

  • Open Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): External Knowledge Sourcing Strategies and Internal Organizational Facilitators

    Sabine Brunswicker;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Open innovation practices in SMEs and large enterprises

    André Spithoven;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Nadine Roijakkers

  • External Technology Sourcing Through Alliances or Acquisitions: An Analysis of the Application-Specific Integrated Circuits Industry

    Wim Vanhaverbeke;Geert Duysters;Niels Noorderhaven

  • The influence of scope, depth, and orientation of external technology sources on the innovative performance of Chinese firms

    Jin Chen;Yufen Chen;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Managing open innovation projects with science-based and market-based partners

    Jingshu Du;Jingshu Du;Bart Leten;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? Evidence from Regional Data

    Paul De Grauwe;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Exploration and Exploitation in Innovation: Reframing the Interpretation

    Ying Li;W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke;W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke;W.W.M.E. Schoenmakers

  • Open Innovation: A research agenda

    H. Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;J. West

  • Choosing Governance Modes for External Technology Sourcing

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  • Where and how to search? Search paths in open innovation

    Henry Lopez-Vega;Fredrik Tell;Fredrik Tell;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Broadening the scope of open innovation: past research, current state and future directions

    Vareska van de Vrande;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Oliver Gassmann

  • External technology sourcing : the effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

    van de Vja Vareska Vrande;Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke;GM Geert Duysters

  • The Role of Alliance Network Redundancy in the Creation of Core and Non-core Technologies

    Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke;VA Victor Gilsing;BE Bonnie Beerkens;GM Geert Duysters

  • Exploring the impact of open innovation on national systems of innovation — A theoretical analysis

    Yuandi Wang;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Nadine Roijakkers

  • How start-ups successfully organize and manage open innovation with large companies

    Muhammad Usman;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Learning mechanisms and differential performance in alliance portfolios

    KH Koen Heimeriks;GM Geert Duysters;Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • The inter-organizational context of open innovation

    Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

    Bart Nooteboom;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Geert Duysters;Geert Duysters;Victor A. Gilsing;Victor A. Gilsing

  • Policy issues in the operation of currency unions: Is Europe an optimum currency area?: evidence from regional data

    Paul de Grauwe;Wim Vanhaverbeke

  • Understanding the advantages of open innovation practices in corporate venturing in terms of real options

    W. Vanhaverbeke

  • Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

    Victor Gilsing;Bart Noteboom;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Geert Duysters

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert Duysters
Geert Duysters Tilburg University
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough University of California, Berkeley
Victor Gilsing
Victor Gilsing Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joel West
Joel West Keck Graduate Institute
Niels Noorderhaven
Niels Noorderhaven Tilburg University
Dries Faems
Dries Faems WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Bart Nooteboom
Bart Nooteboom University of Groningen
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen University of Oulu
Paul De Grauwe
Paul De Grauwe London School of Economics and Political Science

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