Nicolas van Zeebroeck is a full-time professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. His research and teaching cover the economics and strategy of innovation and digitalization. After several years of research on innovation and intellectual property, he now investigates how digital technology affects the performance and organization of firms and industries. His research has appeared in international scientific journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Technology Law Review or Information Economics and Policy. Next to his research and teaching activities, Nicolas is regularly interviewed on digital matters in national media and occasionally serves as a keynote speaker and advisor on digital strategy and transformation in the industry. He has overseen the Master in Business Engineering at Solvay from 2011 to 2016 and the Advanced Master in Innovation and Strategic Management from 2014 to 2016, and has successfully led the EQUIS re-accreditation process at Solvay in 2013 and 2016. Nicolas obtained a Master in Business Engineering (2001) and a PhD in Economics and Management (2008), both from SBS-EM, and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at FNRS (from 2009 to 2011) and at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (in 2009). Prior to joining Solvay for his PhD, Nicolas had started his career as a consultant at Capgemini.

Economics and Management