Prof. E. Masurel

Prof. Enno Masurel

Enno Masurel (born 6 December 1959) studied Business Administration at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1979-1986). After obtaining his Master's degree, he joined the Economic and Social Institute of the VU University Amsterdam as a researcher. He obtained his PhD in 1993 with a thesis entitled Small Business Collaboration in the Dutch Retail Sector, and then he became Head of the Business Administration Department of the Economic and Social Institute. In March 2004 he was appointed Professor in Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Innovation and Corporate Sustainability CIMO, VU University Amsterdam. From 2008 he is the director of the VU Center for Entrepreneurship, in 2010 the name of the center changed into Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship at VU (ACE@VU).

His main research focus is Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), with special reference to innovation. Masurel is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Small Business Management. He has attended many international seminars and published in a number of international papers (e.g. in International Small Business Journal, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, and Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy). In a recent analysis by Technovation concerning publications in the field of entrepreneurship he ended up in the Dutch Top 3 and in the World Top 8.

Research interests
Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), with special reference to innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship and diversity.

Some of Enno Masurel's publications:

• Masurel, E. and Nijkamp, P. (2009) The Low Participation of Urban Migrant Entrepreneurs: Reasons and Perceptions of Weak Institutional Embeddedness, in: S. Karlsson, Å.E. Andersson, P. Cheshire and R.R. Stough (eds.), New Directions in Regional Economic Development. Springer, 2009, 247-265.
• Geenhuizen, M. van, Watanabe, C. Jauhari V. and Masurel E. (eds.), (2009) Technological Innovation Across Nations. Springer.
• Masurel, E. and Werkhoven, F. (2009) The Relationship between Universities of Professional Education and SMEs: Room for Improvement, in: M. van Geenhuizen, C. Watanabe, V. Jauhari and E. Masurel (eds.), Technological Innovation Across Nations. Springer, 159-175.
• Masurel, E., Hemert P. van and Groot, P. de (2009) Entrepreneurship across the border: internationalisation of Dutch SMEs, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 10 (1), 20-37.