I am Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor in Business and Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University. I am also Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Technology, Innovation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. My research is broadly concerned with entrepreneurship, innovation and technology in economic development, and how this is mediated by institutions, trade, geography and human nature. I have been expert advisor to virtually all the global development organisations - most recently for the World Trade Organisation’s World Trade Report on Digitisation and Trade (2018).
Currently I am working on the relationships between technology (such as AI) on development, growth and security, on the nature and consequences of what has been called the 4th Industrial Revolution, especially for catching-up economies, and on the decline in entrepreneurship and innovation in advanced economies.
Experience
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2013–presentResearch Fellow, IZA Institute of Labor Economics
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2014–presentProfessor , Maastricht University
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2011–presentProfessorial Fellow, United Nations University (UNU-MERIT)
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2018–presentResearch Fellow, Africa Studies Centre Leiden University
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2018–presentVisiting Professor, RWTH Aachen University
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2018–2019Academic Visitor, Said Business School, University of Oxford
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2007–2011Senior Research Fellow, United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)
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