Robin De Cock, PhD
Expertise
- Entrepreneurial pitching
- Technology entrepreneurship and commercialization
- Strategic challenges of entrepreneurs
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Business model Innovation
- Entrepreneurial team dynamics
- Wellbeing of entrepreneurs
- Sustainable entrepreneurship
References
PwC, KPMG, J&J, SAP, Grant Thornton, Silverfin, BESIX, Aquafin, City of Antwerp, , Port of Antwerp, Katoen Natie, Sirris, VVGS, Pidpa, AZ Sint-Blasius
Robin De Cock is an associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship and the academic director of the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Antwerp Management School. He is a member of the AMS Research Council and the "Innovating Strategies & Operating Models" research team.
He is a guest professor at ETH Zürich. He is a member of the valorization board of VITO and advices start-ups and scale-up ventures at a regular basis.
He received his PhD from Ghent University where he worked for 10 years under supervision of serial entrepreneur and Prof. dr. Bart Clarysse. He spent 3 years as a senior researcher at the innovation and entrepreneurship group of Imperial College Business School in London where he conducted research for the European Commission and taught entrepreneurship in various programs for bachelor and master students. During his PhD and post-doc, he interviewed and followed more than 300 technology ventures in Flanders and Silicon Valley over a period of 9 years to investigate how entrepreneurs create technology market combinations and adapt to fast-moving and uncertain environments.
His research interests are focused on technology entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship. He presented his work at various top conferences around the world and published in top entrepreneurship and management journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of World Business and Journal of Small Business Management. He is also author of a book on effective technology transfer.
He was also involved in several research projects for the Flemish government (IWT, Steunpunt ondernemen, VLAIO, FIT), Federal government (BELSPO, Koning Boudewijn Stichting) and European Commission (FP6, FP7, H2020, KIC, INTERREG) advising on various topics in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Finally, he is teaching Entrepreneurial strategy, Growth Strategy and Business Model Innovation in the Full time master programs. In 2021 he won the AMS best teacher award. At executive level he is coaching in Executive MBA and Executive PhD. He designed and teaches (in) the masterclass Sustainable Innovation and the executive IT masters (“mastering digital disruption”). He is also active in company specific teaching where he has been involved in program design and delivery for a wide range of clients including SAP, BESIX, KPMG, J&J.
