Dr. Dries Faems

Associate Professor Product and Process Innovation

Room: LA-A249

Phone: +31 53 489 4398

General info

Dries Faems is Associate Professor Product and Process Innovation at the Department of Operations, Organisations, and Human Resources (University of Twente) and Affiliated Researcher at the Research Centre of Organisation Studies (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). He holds a masters degree in Commercial Engineering (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2001, magna cum laude) and became Doctor in Applied Economics (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2006) with a thesis titled: “Collaboration for Innovation: Processes of Governance and Learning in R&D Alliances.” With this thesis, he was a finalist of the 2007 BPS Best Dissertation Competition.

Research interests

Dries Faems has published papers in international journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Small Business Economics and International Journal of Human Resource Management. In addition, he has won several international awards such as the Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award (16th International Product Development Conference) and the José Maria Veciana Best Paper Award (RENT XXIII Conference). His current research focuses on the management of ambidextrous innovation strategies, performance implications of alliance portfolios and the governance of transitional governance trajectories. For this latter research topic, he received a three year VENI research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Teaching responsibilities

Dries Faems lectures on innovation management in the bachelor and minor programs of the school of Business, Public Administration & Technology. In the Business Administration master program he gives master classes in organising innovation and technology and innovation dynamics. Besides, he supervises theses of bachelor and master students. He is also coordinator of the minor ‘Management of Innovation’.

Publications

Faems, D.; de Visser, M.; Andries, P.; Van Looy, B. (2010) Technology alliance portfolios and financial performance: Value-enhancing and cost-increasing effects of open innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Belderbos, R.; Faems, D.; Leten, B.; Van Looy, B. (2010) Technological activities and their impact on the financial performance of the firm: Exploitation and exploration within and between firms. Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Faems, D.; Janssens, M.; Van Looy, B. (2010) Managing the competition-cooperation dilemma in R&D alliances: A multiple case-study in the advanced materials industry. Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management.

De Visser, M.; De Weerd-Nederhof, P.; Faems, D.; Song, M., Van Looy, B. & Visscher, K. (2010) Structural ambidexterity in NPD processes: The impact of – differentiated - structures on firm-level innovation performance. Technovation.

Neyens, I.; Faems, D. & Sels, L. (2010) The impact of continuous and discontinuous alliance strategies on startup innovation performance. International Journal of Technology Management.

Poot, T.; Faems, D. & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2009) Toward a dynamic perspective on open innovation: A longitudinal assessment of the adoption of internal and external innovation strategies in the Netherlands. International Journal of Innovation Management, 13: 177-200.

Faems, D.; Janssens, M.; Madhok, A. & Van Looy, B. (2008) Toward an integrative perspective on alliance governance: Connecting contract design, contract application, and trust dynamics. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 1053-1078.

Faems, D.; Janssens, M. & Van Looy, B. (2007) The initiation and evolution of interfirm knowledge transfer in R&D relationships. Organization Studies, 28: 1699-1728.

Faems, D.; Janssens, M.; Bouwen, R. & Van Looy, B. (2006) Governing explorative R&D alliances: Searching for effective strategies. Management Revue, 17: 9-29.

Sels, L.; De Winne, S.; Maes, J.; Delmotte, J.; Faems, D. & Forrier, A. (2006) Unravelling the HRM-Performance link: value-creating and cost-increasing effects of small business HRM. Journal of Management Studies, 43: 319-342.

Sels, L.; De Winne, S; Maes, J.; Faems, D.; Delmotte, J. & Forrier, A. (2006) Linking HRM and small business performance: An examination of the impact of human resource management practices on the productivity and financial performance of small businesses. Small Business Economics, 26: 83-101.

Faems, D.; De Winne, S.; Maes, J. & Sels, L. (2005) The Effect of Individual HR Domains on Financial Performance: Evidence from Belgian Small Businesses. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16: 676-700.

Faems, D.; Van Looy, B. & Debackere K. (2005) The role of inter-organizational collaboration within innovation strategies: towards a portfolio approach. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 22: 238-251.

Faems, D. (2002) Competentiemanagement: beheersen of begeleiden? Tijdschrift voor HRM, 3 (2): 31-60

Sels, L.; Dewinne, S.; Maes, J.; Delmotte, J.; Faems, D. & Forrier, A. (2002) ‘De meerwaarde van HRM in het MKB.’ Tijdschrift voor HRM, 3 (2): 61-86