Date：
November 26（Wednesday), 2025
from 16:00 to 17:30
Topic:
“The Innovation Puzzle : Banish the Innovation Killers and become an Emerging Champion”
Abstract:
The following provides a brief introduction to his recent publication, “The Innovation Puzzle: Banish the Innovation Killers and Become an Emerging Champion.”
The Innovation Puzzle, banish the innovation killers and become an emerging champion: first forensically dissects the pervasive but hidden biases and behavioural traps that doom to failure the usual formulae for innovation that companies embrace, and then it takes readers on a journey in which they will banish these biases and behaviours for good and turn their companies into world-class innovators.
Speaker:
Victor Gilsing
(Professor, School of Business and Economics, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
About the Speaker:
Both experienced in the private and public sector and as an academic researcher, Victor Gilsing (1969) has been driven throughout his career by the goal of helping organizations to maximize and harness their innovative potential. He completed his PhD at RSM (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), and his principal research interest is in how companies and other organizations can structurally boost their innovation performance and become world-class innovators.
He currently serves as a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s School of Business and Economics and is director of the VU Center “Behavioral Strategy & Innovation.” His academic research has been published in top academic journals such as Journal of Management, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management Studies, and Research Policy. He received a prestigious Odysseus Research Grant from the Royal Flanders Science Foundation for the 2015–2021 period to pursue a research program on the role of top managers and boards of directors in the creation of breakthrough innovations. Over the years, he has received many international research awards and Academy of Management Best Paper awards and nominations, as well as many best teacher awards.
Victor has longstanding experience in delivering key-notes, master classes, and executive education to managers, (senior) executives and non-executive directors, as well as to start-ups, new ventures and their CEOs. Most recently, he has been nominated for ‘Most Outstanding Faculty’ at the Free University Amsterdam for his excellence in executive education. In addition, he serves as non-executive member of the supervisory board at different companies.
Venue:
onsite
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building
Organizer:
Kang, Byeongwoo
This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.
Deadline:
9:00, November 26, 2025
For registration, please click on “Innovation Forum” below.