Marco van Gelderen is Associate professor at the department of Management and Organisation at VU Amsterdam. He is a psychologist specializing in enterprising behavior. Marco is currently editor of the learning innovation section of the Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy journal. Furthermore, he is an editorial board member of the Journal of Business Venturing and of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
Marco focuses his research as well as his teaching activities on individual level enterprising competencies. Examples of such competencies are generating ideas for opportunities, taking action, perseverance, networking, teamwork, and persuasion. For research overviews of these competencies, see the website that Marco maintains: www.enterprisingcompetencies.com. He has developed several formats to study as well as practice these competencies, and conducts workshops and (short) courses in various countries and settings.
Teaching interests:
Enterprising Skills, Enterprising Competencies, Enterprising Soft Skills
Autonomy
Future Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Education
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