dr. I.A.M. Wakkee (Ingrid)

Ingrid Wakkee is the AUAS Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. She is responsible for the AUAS entrepreneurship research program while she also acts as scientific director of AUAS Venture Center which focuses on stimulating and supporting student entrepreneurship at AUAS. In her role as university-wide professor she is actively involved in multiple Centres of Expertise include the Centre for Economic Transformation and Urban Governance and Social Innovation.

In her research, Wakkee concentrates on topics related to entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial failure and recovery, impact driven entrepreneurship, sustainable and collaborative business models and university industry interactions. Most of her research adopts a social capital or social network perspective.

Her work has been published in national and international scientific journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Technovation, as well as edited volumes on the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation. Wakkee is additionally appointed as visiting professor at Thapar School of Management, in Punjab, India and as associate research fellow at the Fachhoch Schule in Münster, Germany. She is involved in multiple European research and education consortia and often acts as a committee member of entrepreneurship educational review boards such as for the EIT (E.U.) and NVAO (NL).