Werner Liebregts is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Strategy and Entrepreneurship department of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM) of Tilburg University. He previously held a similar position at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), a joint initiative of Tilburg University (TiU) and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He obtained his PhD in Economics with a focus on intrapreneurship from Utrecht University in March 2018. Werner also serves as Board Member of the Dutch Academy of Research in Entrepreneurship (DARE).

His research combines the data science and entrepreneurship disciplines in the following two ways: (1) Investigating how (big) data and AI enable entrepreneurs to reach higher levels of data or digital maturity, and (2) applying state-of-the-art data science methods and techniques to better address conventional entrepreneurship research questions. In sum, Werner is intrigued by how entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship scholars can leverage data science for new value and new knowledge creation, respectively.

Werner also has extensive experience with coordinating courses on, amongst others, corporate entrepreneurship and startup entrepreneurship, both at the undergraduate and at the graduate level. Furthermore, he supervises a substantial number of Bachelor and Master theses related to his own interests and expertise per academic year. Werner obtained his Senior University Teaching Qualification (SKO in Dutch) at Tilburg University in June 2019.

• 2024-today: Assistant Professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University (Tilburg, the Netherlands)
• 2017-2024: Assistant Professor at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, ('s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands)
• 2013-2017: Doctoral Candidate at the Utrecht University School of Economics (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
• 2012-2013: Junior Researcher at TNO (Hoofddorp, the Netherlands)
• 2012: Trainee at Panteia (Zoetermeer, the Netherlands)
• 2010-2012: Student Assistant Quantitative Economist/Econometrician at EIM (Zoetermeer, the Netherlands)
• 2010: Trainee at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (The Hague, the Netherlands)

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