Professors
The joint Master's programme is taught by leading academics from both the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. Together, they complement each other's specialisations and knowledge of entrepreneurship.
Karen Verduyn (VU University Amsterdam)
Dr Karen Verduyn graduated from Erasmus University, Rotterdam with a degree in Business Administration. She embarked on a career in the corporate sector but returned to the academic world in 2002. In 2007 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at VU University Amsterdam entitled Tales of Entrepreneurship. Contributions to Understanding Entrepreneurial Life.
Dr Verduyn's research centres on the deployment of critical and practice-based approaches to understanding the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. Dr Verduyn is the programme director of the MSc in Entrepreneurship. She teaches the 'Entrepeneurship: Theory and Practice' course. In addition, she supervises Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD dissertations on a range of related topics.
Tsvi Vinig (University of Amsterdam)
Dr Tsvi Vinig is an associate professor at the UvA's Amsterdam Business School. He coordinates the Entrepreneurship and Innovation track of the Master’s programme in Business Studies.
He was founding director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Science Park Amsterdam from 2007 to 2012 and dean of the International MBA at the HvA/HES School of Economics and Business from 2003 to 2007. In the corporate world, he has also held senior positions in the technology sector and management consultancy.
Entrepreneurship is at the heart of his research interests, with a particular emphasis on science and technology, networks, globalisation and development in China. He teaches and publishes extensively in these areas, in addition to supervising a number of PhD dissertations on related topics.
Dr Vinig teaches the 'Entrepreneurship in Science and Technology' course.
Dr Marco van Gelderen (VU University Amsterdam)
Dr Marco van Gelderen is a business psychologist specialising in entrepreneurship. His lasting affinity with entrepreneurship stems from the many and varied ways in which entrepreneurship connects with almost any matter of interest in human life and society.
In both his teaching and his research, Dr Van Gelderen has recently begun to focus on individual enterprising competencies. These include generating ideas for opportunities, taking action, perseverance, networking and persuasion. He has developed several formats aimed at both studying and developing these competencies.
His wide range of publications features titles such as:
- Opportunities in the dating market.
- Explaining entrepreneurial intentions by means of the theory of planned behaviour.
- Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations and their drivers.