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J.P.J. (Jeroen) de Jong

Assistant Professor

Jeroen de Jong
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Programme:
Strategy & Entrepreneurship
ERIM Membership:
Member ERIM (since 2008)
Profile

Jeroen de Jong (born 1972) graduated in business economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. He received his PH.D in organizational behavior at the University of Amsterdam on “individual innovation: the connection between leadership and employees innovative work behavior”. Jeroen has worked as a research assistant at the Tinbergen Institute at ESE, and for more than ten years at EIM Business and Policy Research, a research institute specialized in small business and entrepreneurship. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM). He is also part-time employed at EIM, providing consultancy and research management services. At RSM Jeroen is teaching in the master program for part-time students. He is coordinating two courses on “New Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship” (core course and master elective course). He is also teaching new master student courses on entrepreneurial bootstrapping and applied research. Jeroen’s scholarly research is rooted in the three areas: (1) Individuals’ entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors, intrapreneurship; (2) Measurement of user innovation, and how user innovations diffuse via entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and peer-to-peer sharing; (3) Innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises, including high tech SMEs, innovation collaboration and geography. His current research collaboration partners include the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA (on user and open innovation), the University of Western Australia (on innovative behaviors) and the Telder School of Management in Ottawa, Canada (on innovation in SMEs). So far his work has been published in Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and various book chapters.

Publications (36)
  • Book contributions (6)
    • Jong, J.P.J. de & von Hippel, E. (2013). User innovation: Business and consumers. In F. Gault (Ed.), Handbook of Innovation policy indicators (pp. xxx-xxx). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (IN PRESS).
    • Jong, J.P.J. de (2013). The empirical scope of user innovation. In D. Harhoff & K. Lakhani (Eds.), Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, communities and open innovation (pp. xxx-xxx). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (IN PRESS).
    • Oerlemans, L.A.G., De Kok, J.M.P. & Jong, J.P.J. de (2009). The prevalence and characteristics of interorganisational temporary collaborations of Dutch small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs). In P. Kenis, M. Janowicz-Panjaitan & B. Cambré (Eds.), Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness (pp. 15-55). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
    • Jong, J.P.J. de, Meinen, G. & Vermeulen, P.A.M. (2007). Innovation in Services: A Search for New Indicators. In T. Wolters (Ed.), Measuring the New Economy: Statistics between Hard-Boiled Indicators and Intangible Phenomena (pp. 177-194). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
    • Jong, J.P.J. de & Janszen, F.H.A. (2004). High-tech starters: kenmerken, belang en spanningsvelden. In W. Hulsink, D. Manuel & E. Stam (Eds.), Ondernemen in netwerken: nieuwe en groeiende bedrijven in de informatiesamenleving (pp. 177-194). Assen: Van Gorcum.
    • Bodewes, W.E.J. & Jong, J.P.J. de (2003). Innovatie in het midden- en kleinbedrijf. In P. Risseeuw & R. Thurik (Eds.), Handboek ondernemers & adviseurs: management en economie van het Midden- en Kleinbedrijf (pp. 323-338). Deventer: Kluwer.
  • Professional publications (4)
    • Jong, J.P.J. de, Bodewes, W.E.J. & Braaksma, R.M. (2009). De innovatieve ondernemer. Zoetermeer: Stichting KIZ/EIM.
    • Jong, J.P.J. de, Bodewes, W.E.J. & Braaksma, R.M. (2009). Innoveren: Groeien door vernieuwing. Haarlem: SBP.
    • Jong, J.P.J. de, Bodewes, W.E.J. & Harkema, S. (2007). Winst door Innovatie: Hoe Ondernemers Kansen Zien en Pakken. Den Haag: SDU Academic Service.
    • Jong, J.P.J. de & Kerste, R.A.J. (2002). De kracht van het idee: betere resultaten door innovatief gedrag van medewerkers. Schoonhoven: Academic Service.
  • Doctoral thesis
    • Jong, J.P.J. de (2007, november 27). Individual Innovation: The connection between leadership and employees¿ innovative work behavior. University of Amsterdam (223 pag.) (Zoetermeer; the Netherlands: EIM Business and Policy Research). Prom./coprom.: Prof.Dr. D.N. den Hartog.
Recognitions (1)
  • Side position (1)
    Name organisation EIM Business and Policy Research
    Role innovative entrepreneurship expert and advisor
    Start date 01-05-2010
    Wage earning ja

Events (4)
Sep 4, 2012 Probing the limits of user innovation: radical patients, intestinal parasites, and the development of Helminthic therapy
  ERIM Research Seminar | Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Oct 11, 2011 Towards a Dynamic Institutional Theory of Entrepreneurship: How National Institutions Shape Venture Creation Processes in Germany and the US
  ERIM Research Seminar | Strategy & Entrepreneurship

May 24, 2011 Understanding Proactive Behavior from Attachment Theory
  ERIM Research Seminar | Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Jun 2, 2009 User Innovation Research: Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Going
  ERIM Research Seminar | Entrepreneurship & Innovation (- 2009)

Visiting address
Office: T07-37
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA, Rotterdam
Netherlands
Postal address
Postbus 1738
3000 DR, Rotterdam
Netherlands
 

Latest publication

Jong, J.P.J. de & de Bruijn, E. de (2013). Innovation lesson from 3-D printing. MIT Sloan Management Review, 54(2), 43-52.

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Consumers as innovators: the changing face of product development

Product innovations are usually initiated by producers while consumers are supposed to indicate their needs and absorb what producers have on offer. For Jeroen de Jong, a new era of product innovation…