This talk is open to all UvA students, staff, and faculty. This free lunch session is a joint initiative of the section Entrepreneurship & Innovation of the Amsterdam Business School and REC Impact.

About Henri Burgers

Associate Professor Henri Burgers is the Head of the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Discipline at The University of Queensland and a board member of the Australasian Consortium for Entrepreneurship Research Excellence.

His work focuses on helping individuals and organisations unlock their entrepreneurial potential. He has published extensively on how public and private sector organisations and academics can collaborate to successfully innovate in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Small Business Economics, and Technovation. Through leading research groups and as Academic Director of Executive Education he has worked with firms, industry associations and governments across the globe.

His work received well over $1mln in funding from industry to generate impact through research and teaching.

He has developed and transformed a wide range of Bachelor's and Master's and MBA courses and programmes to embed more entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making skills in curricula through connecting students with industry.