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Solvay Brussels School - Economics & Management - Nicolas van Zeebroeck

Nicolas van Zeebroeck

Full-time Faculty

Contact address :

ULB zipcode : 114/4
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50
1050 Brussels
+3226503375

Main affiliations

Université libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

Member of

CEB, ECARES

Education

BA Ingénieur de Gestion (ULB, SBS-EM, 1999)
MA Ingénieur de Gestion (ULB, SBS-EM & Darden Graduate School of Business, 2001)
DEA Sciences de Gestion (ULB, SBS-EM, 2005)
PhD in Economics and Management (ULB, SBS-EM, 2008)

Short bio

With a PhD in economics and management from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Nicolas van Zeebroeck is now Assistant Professor at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) at ULB. During his post-doctoral research funded by the FNRS, he was invited as a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His research and teachings focus on the economics and strategic management of knowledge. His main interest is in how ICT contribute to improve research and knowledge diffusion. His research has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Management Science, Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Information Economics and Policy, Scientometrics, and Pattern Recognition and has been presented in over 30 international conferences and seminars. He has also served as a strategy consultant for private and public organisations, advising companies mostly on issues relating with ICT, business intelligence and knowledge management.

Selected works

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  • Forman, Chris CM, & van Zeebroeck, Nicolas (2012). From wires to partners: How the Internet has fostered R&D collaborations within firms. Management science. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1110.1505
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  • Mantrach, Amin, van Zeebroeck, Nicolas, Francq, Pascal, Shimbo, Masashi, Bersini, Hugues, & Saerens, Marco (2011). Semi-supervised Classification and Betweenness: Centrality Computation on Large, Sparse, Graphs. Pattern recognition, 44(6), 1212-1224. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2010.11.019
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  • van Zeebroeck, Nicolas, & Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno (2011). Filing strategies and patent value. Economics of innovation and new technology, 20(6), 539-562. doi:10.1080/10438591003668646
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  • van Zeebroeck, Nicolas (2011). The Puzzle of Patent Value Indicators. Economics of innovation and new technology, 20(1), 33-62. doi:10.1080/10438590903038256
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  • van Zeebroeck, Nicolas, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, & Guellec, Dominique (2009). Claiming more: the increased voluminosity of patent applications and its determinants. Research policy, 38(6), 1006-1020. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2009.02.004
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