Andrea Herrmann
Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development - Innovation
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Andrea M. Herrmann is Assistant Professor in Innovation Studies. She was a Marie Curie research fellow at Columbia University (New York) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (Cologne). She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and an MSc from the London School of Economics (London). She obtained several renowned research funds, including a Marie Curie IOF fellowship, an H2020 consortium grant (as work package leader) and an NWO Vidi grant. In her research, Dr. Herrmann studies institutional influences on incumbent firms, entrepreneurial ventures and workforces. More concretely, her research interests comprise the areas of political economy, institutional theory, entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, innovation management, economic European integration, and industrial relations (gig economy), as well as quantitative and qualitative research methodology.
Research Interest
Science and Innovation Management
Publications
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Thompson, N.A., Herrmann, A.M. & Hekkert, M.P. (2015). How sustainable entrepreneurs engage in institutional change - insights from biomass torrefaction in the Netherlands. Journal of Cleaner Production, 106, (pp. 608-618) (11 p.).
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Schemmann, Brita, Herrmann, Andrea M., Chappin, Maryse M H & Heimeriks, Gaston J. (01.07.2016). Crowdsourcing ideas - Involving ordinary users in the ideation phase of new product development. Research Policy, 45 (6), (pp. 1145-1154) (10 p.).
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Meelen, Toon, Herrmann, Andrea M. & Faber, Jan (01.04.2017). Disentangling patterns of economic, technological and innovative specialization of Western economies - An assessment of the Varieties-of-Capitalism theory on comparative institutional advantages. Research Policy, 46 (3), (pp. 667-677) (11 p.).
