Jean-Jacques Degroof is an entrepreneur and academic who currently works as a venture investor and teacher in the Benelux region of Europe. From 2002 to 2005, Jean-Jacques Degroof served as a researcher at the MIT Industrial Performance Center. During this time, he presented a paper on academic spin-off processes in regions outside of high-tech clusters at the 2003 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC).
Established in 1981, the BCERC was developed to provide an arena in which management academics and “real-world” business leaders can meet to share ideas and bridge the divide between entrepreneurial theory and practice. The BCERC attracts more than 350 scholars and presents more than 220 papers each year.
Compiling a wide-ranging and all-inclusive collection of the finest empirical research papers on the subject of entrepreneurship, the BCERC also sponsors a concurrent Doctoral Consortium that serves the next generation of entrepreneurship educators and scholars. Many industry leaders consider the BCERC the premier entrepreneurship research conference in the world.
Established in 1981, the BCERC was developed to provide an arena in which management academics and “real-world” business leaders can meet to share ideas and bridge the divide between entrepreneurial theory and practice. The BCERC attracts more than 350 scholars and presents more than 220 papers each year.
Compiling a wide-ranging and all-inclusive collection of the finest empirical research papers on the subject of entrepreneurship, the BCERC also sponsors a concurrent Doctoral Consortium that serves the next generation of entrepreneurship educators and scholars. Many industry leaders consider the BCERC the premier entrepreneurship research conference in the world.
