Wim VANHAVERBEKE studied philosophy and economics at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained a DBA at the IESE-business school in Barcelona in 1995. He is currently Professor Strategy & Organisation at the Hasselt University (Belgium) in the Department of Business Studies and is appointed as visiting professor "Open innovation" at ESADE (Spain) and the Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management (Belgium).

He published in international journals as Organization Science and Organization Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Strategic Organization. He is co-editor (with Henry Chesbrough and Joel West) of "Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm", a new book about the research challenges related t0 Open Innovation (Oxford University Press 2006; paperback in 2008; Japanese translation 2008). He is currently in the process of writing a book entitled "Management and organization of Open Innovation". He is extending research about open innovation and open business models by doing joint research with different universities and companies around the globe. He is Chairman of Exnovate, a recently established Network of Excellence on innovating using technology from external sources. The Network connects companies, the academic world and public authorities interested in the management and organization of open and collaborative innovation.