Ward Ooms

Education

• 2010 - 2011: MSc Innovation Management (self-composed) at the Radboud University Nijmegen (specializations in technological innovation and strategic alliances)

• 2007 - 2010: BSc Business Administration at the Radboud University Nijmegen (specializations in innovation management, business ethics, and behavioural & experimental economics)

Expertise

My overall area of expertise is innovation studies. I am particularly interested in innovation through collaboration. My studies focus on why collaboration - although it comes with many benefits for innovation - may sometimes also inhibit innovation. In my research I have studied European regional innovation systems, processes of cluster governance, research collaborations, academic engagement, inbound open innovation, and analysed career success of academics.

Research interests:

• innovation studies, collaboration, regional innovation, innovation policy, cluster governance, higher education, and university-industry interaction.

Companies

• Lecturer Business Research Methods TIAS School for Business and Society (2017)
• Assistant Professor & Academic Director Open Universiteit (2016)
• Owner & Consultant WardOoms.nl (2006)
• PhD Researcher Open Universiteit Nederland (2012 — 2016)
• Teaching Assistant Business Research Methods TIAS School for Business and Society (2015 — 2016)
• Internship Philips Research (2011 — 2011)