Reinhilde Veugelers

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Reinhilde Veugelers
Born1963
NationalityBelgian
Alma mater Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Occupation Economist

Reinhilde Veugelers (born 1963 in Hasselt) is a Belgian economist and Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium, known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels [1] and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. [2]

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Biography

Born in Hasselt, Veugelers received her PhD in Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on the thesis entitled "Scope Decisions of Multinational Enterprises". She is a full professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Faculty of Business and Economics, the Management, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) Department. [3]

She has been a visiting scholar at the Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, New York University Stern School of Business, ECARES/Université libre de Bruxelles, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Pompeu Fabra University & Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Maastricht University.

From 2004 to 2008 she was on academic leave, as an advisor at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Since 2009, she is a senior fellow at Bruegel. [1] Furthermore, she is a CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research, London) research fellow. She also is a "co-promotor" for the Flemish Government "Steunpunt" on R&D Statistics. She currently serves on the European Research Council (ERC) Scientific Council. [4] She is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and of the Academia Europeana.

Other advisory positions include membership of:

Research

With her research concentrated in the fields of industrial organisation, international economics and strategy, innovation and science, she has authored numerous well cited publications in leading international journals. Specific recent topics include cooperative R&D, international technology transfers through MNEs, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change, industry science links and their impact on firm’s innovative productivity, evaluation of research & innovation policy, explaining scientific productivity, researchers’ international mobility.

Selected publications

Some most cited articles

Some most recent articles

Some policy publications

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References

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  2. "Reinhilde Veugelers, Nonresident Senior Fellow". Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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