Reinhilde Veugelers

Reinhilde Veugelers is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in industrial organisation, innovation and science. 

She has worked on novelty in technology development, international technology transfers through multinational enterprises, global innovation value chains, young innovative companies, innovation for climate change, industry-science links and their impact on firms’ innovative productivity, evaluation of research and innovation policy, explaining scientific productivity, researchers’ international mobility and novel scientific research.

She speaks English, Dutch and French.

Reinhilde is also a Professor at KU Leuven at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences, the Academia Europeana, the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science and a co-PI on the Science of Science Funding Initiative at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave as advisor at the European Commission (Bureau of European Policy Analysis). She was on the European Research Council's (ERC) Scientific Council from 2012-2018 and on the Real-time earthquake risk reduction for a resilient Europe (RISE) Expert Group, advising the commissioner for research. She holds a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven.

Websites:
https://feb.kuleuven.be/reinhilde.veugelers
https://bruegel.org/author/reinhilde-veugelers/

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