Carla Koen

Carla I. Koen is Professor of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at TIAS School for Business and Society and Eindhoven University of Technology. She is Member of the Innovation Board of Taminco (Global Chemical company), the General Council of Antwerp Management School, STW Commissions, and of the Advisory Board of Wings for Aid. She is Canon Foundation Fellow and Director of BIS Company B.V.

Carla is professor, entrepreneur, advisor, coach, and management trainer for companies in a wide range of sectors such as Chemicals, Medical Diagnostics, Life & Material Sciences, Health-Care, etc. She works with government, large corporates as well as start-up companies.

She has directed and/or taught in executive development programs in different countries for clients such as ING, Stork, Philips, SD WORX, Hagemeyer, Maxeda, Alliander, Connexxion, Marel, Sandd.

Carla obtained two Best Teacher Awards; Tias 2013 Executive Master and MBA Programs (the Netherlands) and Antwerp Management School 2012-2013 Master Programs (Belgium). Between 2008 and 2010, she obtained 420.000 Euro in grants for research and the support of start-ups.

She obtained a PhD and Master in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick (UK). Her PhD and Master studies focus on innovation in the German and Japanese pharmaceutical industry. Carla also holds a Master in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Geselschaftsforschung (Cologne), Sophia University (Tokyo), and the Wissenschaftszentrum fuer Sozialforschung (Berlin).

Carla is author of a book on Comparative Management, and of several national and international publications in journals such as Organization Studies, Current Topics in Management, Management Executive, Research in International Business and Finance.

Education

• Certificate Program Sustainable Business Strategy Harvard University (2018 — 2018)
• Master and PhD in International Political Economy University of Warwick (1994 — 1999)
• MA KU Leuven (1991 — 1993)

Companies

• Member of the Evaluation Committee Lekdijk renovation Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden (2019)
• Member of the Taskforce Earning Ability - Minister Carola Schouten Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (2019)
• Director BIS Company B.V. (2012)
• Visiting Professor Antwerp Management School (2011)
• Professor of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship TIAS School for Business and Society (2010)
• Member of the General Council Antwerp Management School (2014 — 2018)
• Member of the Innovation Strategy Board Taminco (2012 — 2014)
• Associate Professor TiasNimbas - Academic Director C-TIC and MBI Tias/Nimbas business school (2005 — 2010)
• Assistant Professor University of Tilburg (2000 — 2005)

Skills

• Business Development
• Strategic Planning
• Sustainability

Other

Open Innovation, Interim Management, Consulting, Research, Executive Coaching, Strategy, Organizational Development, Teaching, Management Consulting, Change Management, Program Management, Innovation Management, New Business Development, Start-ups, Coaching, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship