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prof. dr. Enno Masurel

Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Management and Organisation

Full Professor, Amsterdam Business Research Institute

Personal information

Enno Masurel (born 6 December 1959) is a Full Professor in Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, since 2004. His educational background is business economics and microeconomics; in the last decade he has moved into the direction of business administration and entrepreneurship. 

Enno bridges the gap between the academic world, on the one hand, and the private sector and the public sector, on the other, by showing mutual benefits and building long term relationships. One actual activity is the making of entrepreneurship cases, both about real-life entrepreneurs and semi-fictive cases. Another actual activity is the workshop 'The Entrepreneurial Family Doctor', for GPs in training and existing GPs.

Enno is the director-founder of the VU Center for Entrepreneurship and chairman of the Examination Board of the joint VU & UvA MSc Entrepreneurship, and the former program director of this master.

Enno participated in the European Erasmus+ project ‘Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy’, which was labelled by the European Commission as ‘Best Practice’.

Research

Enno conducts research with focus on the determinants of successful entrepreneurship and small business performance, with special reference to innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship and the life cycle of the small firm. He has (co-)authored more than 70 refereed papers and books and numerous reports.

Teaching

The compulsory course The Entrepreneurial Venture and supervision of master’s theses in the joint VU & UvA MSc Entrepreneurship, supervision of academic papers of the pre-master Business Administration, various electives in entrepreneurship and the International Summer School ‘New Venture Creation in the Amsterdam Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’.

Enno has supervised PhDs on the subjects of small business development and entrepreneurship, from the Netherlands and other countries, including supervision of PhDs and training of university lecturers in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Zambia, in the fields of small business development and entrepreneurship. He has (co-) delivered 17 PhDs.

Ancillary activities
  • Leiden University | Leiden | Lecturer & Course coordinator | 2026-09-01 - 2026-11-30
  • Accelerate Future HEI-Project | Munich | Adviseur | 2025-01-01 - 2026-12-31
  • Amsterdam UMC | Amsterdam | | 2025-01-01 - present

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