Full Professor of Open & Collaborative Innovation at the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing (ITEM) group, Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also Affiliated Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Garwood Research Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

He holds a combined B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Technology and Society from TU/e and a Ph.D. in Management of Technology from EPFL (2009). He previously held positions at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen, and has held visiting appointments at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Trento. He has published extensively on open innovation, innovation ecosystems, business model innovation, and university–industry collaboration, and is a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. His work spans multiple levels of analysis, from microfoundations of open innovation to the dynamics of innovation ecosystems, with a focus on addressing societal grand challenges.