V.J.A. (Vareska) van de Vrande

Vareska van de Vrande is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Vareska holds a MSc and PhD (2007) in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on several aspects of corporate entrepreneurship, such as the use of different organizational forms for external technology sourcing, corporate venture capital investments, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Other research interests include open innovation and corporate venturing.

• Articles (10)
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de (2013). Balancing your technology-sourcing portfolio: How sourcing mode diversity enhances innovative performance. Strategic Management Journal, Accepted, forthcoming.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2013). How prior corporate venture capital investments shape technological alliances: A real options approach. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Accepted.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Vanhaverbeke, W. & Duysters, G.M. (2011). Technology In-Sourcing and the Creation of Pioneering Technologies. The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 28(6), 974-987.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Man, A.P. de (2011). A response to "Is open innovation a field of study or a communication barrier to theory development?". Technovation, 31(4), 185-186.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Vanhaverbeke, W. & Duysters, G.M. (2011). Additivity and complementarity in external technology sourcing: The added value of corporate venture capital investments. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 58(3), 483-496.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Vanhaverbeke, W. & Gassmann, O. (2010). Broadening the scope of open innovation: past research, current state and future directions. International Journal of Technology Management, 52(3/4), 221-235.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Jong, J.P.J. de, Vanhaverbeke, W. & Rochemont, M. de (2009). Open Innovation in SMEs: Trends, Motives and Management Challenges. Technovation, 29(6/7), 423-437.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Vanhaverbeke, W. & Duysters, G.M. (2009). External technology sourcing: the effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(1), 62-80.
  • Vanhaverbeke, W., Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Chesbrough, H.W. (2008). Understanding the advantages of open innovation practices in corporate venturing in terms of real options. Creativity and Innovation Management, 17(4), 251-258.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de, Lemmens, C. & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2006). Choosing governance modes for external technology sourcing. R and D Management, 36(3), 347-363.

• Book contributions (3)
  • Burgers, J.H. & Vrande, V.J.A. van de (). Who is the Corporate Entrepreneur? Insights from Opportunity Discovery and Creation Theory. In S. Zahra (Ed.), Handbook of Corporate Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de (2008). The Importance of Internal Alignment for Open Innovation. In Open Innovation: The New Business Strategy. Hyderabad: Icfai University Press.
  • Halman, J., Ulijn, J., Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Umbach, F. (2007). The importance of cooperation and support for technology start-ups: a comparison of the Eindhoven and Darmstadt areas. In Entrepreneurship, cooperation and the firm: the emergence and survival of high tech ventures in Europe (pp. 261-286). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

• Professional publications (3)
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Man, A.P. de (). Embracing Open Innovation. In Innovation EU, Vol. 2-1. London: Innovation Europe.
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2006). Innoveren door Externe Innovatie. In VMA Jaarboek 2006 (pp. 38-45).
  • Rochemont, M. de & Vrande, V.J.A. van de (2006). Open Innovatie en de Rol van Corporate Venture Capital. In J. Sistermans (Ed.), Open stellingen: Essays over Open Innovatie (pp. 57-64). Den Haag: Quantes.

• Doctoral thesis
  • Vrande, V.J.A. van de (2007, november 07). Not invented here: managing corporate innovation in a new era. TUE (Eindhoven: Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies). Prom./coprom.: Prof.Dr. G.M. Duysters & W. Vanhaverbeke.