Professor (Emeritus) of Digital Strategy and Transformation at the University of Antwerp and Editor-in-Chief of Technovation. Expert in open innovation, innovation ecosystems, and digital strategy. He has held visiting professorships at leading institutions including ESADE Business School, the National University of Singapore, Zhejiang University, and Politecnico di Milano, and has published extensively in top journals while co-editing four major books on open innovation with Henry Chesbrough and Joel West.

He is the author of Managing Open Innovation in SMEs and co-founded the European Innovation Forum with Henry Chesbrough. He advises companies and public organizations on digital transformation and ecosystem strategies and has been recognized by IAMOT as one of the top 50 authors in technology and innovation management.