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Nino van de Wal

Nino van de Wal is a PhD researcher at the Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography (ACED), Faculty of Applied Economics.

Nino's research aims to explain the role of strategy and leadership in corporate innovation and entrepreneurial success. His ongoing research covers topics such as the organization of internal R&D, the optimization of corporate development portfolio, and the complementarity between innovation activities that can be achieved through strategy, leadership and corporate governance.

Nino strives to contribute to the fields of Strategic Management and Organizational Theory, and to become an expert in Corporate Development, Innovation Management and Organizational Change.

Created: 28-December-16
Last Login: 20-November-22

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EGOS

Description: 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen 2017 Topic: The Good Organization: Aspirations • Interventions • Struggles July 6–8, 2017 Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark

Publish Date: 14-March-17

DRUID 2017

Description: Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID and NYC Stern are proud to invite senior and junior scholars to participate and contribute with a paper to DRUID17, hosted by NYC Stern in New York. Presenting distinguished plenary speakers, a range of parallel paper sessions, and a highly attractive social program, the conference aims at mapping theoretical, empirical and methodological advances, contributing novel insights, and help identifying scholarly positions, divisions, and common grounds in current scientific controversies within the field.

Publish Date: 14-March-17

World Open Innovation Conference 2017

Description: The 4th annual World Open Innovation Conference returns to California! This year, the event will be held in the epicenter of Silicon Valley – San Francisco. After three successful events, the World Open Innovation Conference has established itself as one of the most well attended Open Innovation conferences in the world. Industry leaders and academic scholars have helped identify and develop ways to bridge the gap between Open Innovation research, and Open Innovation practices. The conference offers a unique setting to combine the latest in Open Innovation research with the open innovation practices of some of the world’s leading companies. Academic scholars have an opportunity to apply their research to current challenges and areas of development within company settings. Likewise, industry leaders can glean, learn, and apply Open Innovation research to their innovation strategy.

Publish Date: 14-March-17

FLIGHTMAP

Description: FLIGHTMAP provides centralized and comprehensive management of project portfolios, and is used by project managers, project management offices (PMOs) and executives to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed projects based on goals, objectives and strategy. FLIGHTMAP is delivered as a service (SaaS). This makes your FLIGHTMAP implementation easy to access, easy to configure, easy to upgrade, and easy to integrate. FLIGHTMAP is deployed in an agile iterative manner in these steps: your environment is created, then configured to your process needs, and (optionally) loaded with existing data from other systems and spreadsheets (see FlightHub).

Publish Date: 27-February-17

Innovation & Strategy Insights

Description: For new business inquiries, please send an email to ninovandewal@gmail.com or use the website's contact tool. About: Nino van de Wal advises managers on organizational design for corporate entrepreneurship and innovation (i.e., organizational processes, structure, systems, leadership and culture) and ways to pursuit future growth and new business opportunities (i.e., organic growth, alliances or acquisitions). Some of the management consulting projects he has been involved in are: Philips: What is the role of leadership during mergers and organizational change? Deloitte & AMS: How to design an innovative organization? (https://www.mt.nl/management/5-recepten-geslaagde-innovatiecultuur/540987) Pirelli & Formula 1: How to successfully manage R&D in accelerated processes? Nestlé: How structure the organization to encourage and drive external collaboration and open innovation? Bain&Co: Strategies for entering new markets abroad? Kaneka: How to drive internal traffic to our already existing Ideation? CERN: How to create and capture value through open innovation? BBVA: How to engage start-ups, multinationals, universities and governments to capture knowledge flows and technologies under development to create value? Nino van de Wal is a PhD researcher in Strategy & Innovation at University of Antwerp. He received a Master's degree (Cum laude) in Organization Studies from Tilburg University and studied at Bocconi University to specialize in the Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology. He can apply his analytical thinking and research skills in various business environments. The question that drives Nino is: Why do firms show substantial differences in their innovation and entrepreneurial success?

Publish Date: 16-February-17

Management consulting on Innovation & Strategy by Nino van de Wal

Description: You can ask me any question related to strategic management of corporate entrepreneurship and innovation. Please send an email to ninovandewal@gmail.com or use the website's contact tool. I would like to hear from you! About: Nino is highly educated in the field of strategy, innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. He can apply his analytical thinking and research skills in various business environments. Nino van de Wal advises managers on organizational design for corporate entrepreneurship and innovation (i.e., organizational processes, structure, systems, leadership and culture) and ways to pursuit future growth and new business opportunities (i.e., organic growth, alliances or acquisitions). Some of the management consulting projects he has been involved in are: Philips: What is the role of leadership during mergers and organizational change? Deloitte & AMS: How to design an innovative organization? (https://www.mt.nl/management/5-recepten-geslaagde-innovatiecultuur/540987) Pirelli & Formula 1: How to successfully manage R&D in accelerated processes? Nestlé: How structure the organization to encourage and drive external collaboration and open innovation? Bain&Co: Strategies for entering new markets abroad? Kaneka: How to drive internal traffic to our already existing Ideation? CERN: How to create and capture value through open innovation? BBVA: How to engage start-ups, multinationals, universities and governments to capture knowledge flows and technologies under development to create value? Nino van de Wal is a PhD researcher in Strategy & Innovation at University of Antwerp. He received a Master's degree (Cum laude) in Organization Studies from Tilburg University and studied at Bocconi University to specialize in the Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology. The question that drives Nino is: Why do firms show substantial differences in their innovation and entrepreneurial success?

Publish Date: 16-February-17

ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting

Description: The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) are pleased to announce their 6th conference on the economics of innovation and patenting. The goal of the conference is to stimulate discussion between international researchers conducting related empirical and theoretical analysis. The conference will focus on policy implications of recent research. Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from all areas of the economics of innovation and patenting are welcome. The conference will also include two special sessions on the ongoing FP7 projects CRE8TV and WWWForEurope. A non-exhaustive list of topics (see website)

Publish Date: 16-February-17

People & Culture Lead

Description: As a key position in the Board of Innovation team, you will have the opportunity to shape everything related to (for lack of a better wording) HR management, people development and recruiting - in a growing and evolving startup context. We don’t believe in forcing someone into a specific job function. Your role will be shaped based on your own interest and experience, as well as those of your team members; and even more importantly, everyone's role is expected to evolve continuously. Consider this as a starting point: Lead Recruitment (e.g. follow up and improve current inflow of +150 candidates per month). Shape our Onboarding program for new team members. Help in developing compensation packages. Grow company culture. Stimulate continuous feedback and check-in culture HR planning and alignment with company strategy. Designing an agile organisation, with circles instead of fixed hierarchies. Design and implement new lightweight processes and tools for the team as and when needed. Contribute in client projects in terms of talent development, training programs, coaching... Crafting an amazing context and experience to work in for your colleagues. REQUIREMENTS You're a people person! 2-5 years of experience (e.g. as coach, recruiter, HR manager, HR officer, consultant). Relevant degree (e.g. in Psychology, Human Resources, Organisational development). You dream about working an ambitious startup context with 15-20 people. You think way outside the usual box. Outstanding communicator in Dutch and English Mindset of empowerment, openness, culture instead of policies,... You are eager to learn and willing to go the extra mile You want to work in our beautiful Antwerp-based office with healthy (free!) lunches.

Publish Date: 13-February-17

Innovation Consultant / Business Designer

Description: As a business designer/innovation consultant, you support corporate teams in their quest for new business opportunities. You inspire them with (startup) best practices, deep user understanding, and relevant tools and techniques. You are not only coaching this process, but you also contribute to the ideas. Finally, you function as a sounding board for corporate entrepreneurs. What to expect? An example: Together with a colleague, you start off by organizing a workshop to set the innovation scope with the innovation team of our client. “Do we aim for disruptive innovation? What markets do we plan to address?” Once the desired outcome has been defined, you help the client to select a group of open minded employees within their workforce. In several weeks, you guide the teams from ideation to an investment pitch to their own management (aka. Dragons’ Den). The ultimate goal: all teams receive resources to launch their business concept as a corporate startup. Do you have a specific skill or passion you want to grow in? Great! Most people in our team started as a general innovation professional but choose to develop in a specific direction. For example: innovation strategy, design thinking, talent development, customer validation, business model innovation, change management, etc. REQUIREMENTS Academic background in Business / Design / Innovation / Engineering / Digital 2-5 years of relevant experience, preferably as innovation consultant You combine a Next-Gen entrepreneurial attitude with interests in business and design thinking. You have what it takes to thrive in our team: open mindset, working independently, as well as in group. You are flexible to jump from one case to the other. You are fluent in English, other languages are an asset. You are a future-thinker, and generate new ideas with a clear business model. You are great at Project Management and client communication. You organize and facilitate creative workshops with international teams. You’re eager to learn You are able to make clear presentations, and defend your opinion with confidence. This position is Antwerp-based.

Publish Date: 13-February-17

Economist Joseph Schumpeter

Description: The name says it all, this is a blog where the Economist's columnists consider business, finance and management. The blog is named after the economist Joseph Schumpeter, one of the 20th century's greatest intellectuals and maybe best known for his 1942 book “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy,” as well as the theory of dynamic economic growth known as “creative destruction.” This results in authoritative insights and opinions that mix business, finance, science and technology with international news and politics.

Publish Date: 11-February-17