Awards
2011 Finalist for Temple/Best paper prize at the Academy of International Business, Nagoya Japan.
2009 Best paper Prize, International Business Review for paper titled "The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on host's country economic growth" published in 2008 co-authored by Roger Smeets and Remco Zwinkels
2008 Best paper Prize at the 9th annual IB Research Forum and 2nd annual Offshoring Research Network, Temple University Philadelphia, April 3-5, 2008 for the paper titled "Is there a trend towards global value chain specialisation? An examination of cross border sales of US foreign affiliates" co-authored with Torben Pedersen and Bent Petersen.
2007/2009 Best Reviewer award Academy of International Business (AIB) 2007 & 2009 meeting,
1st prize best dissertation award Regional Science Association International (RSAI), 2004. Prize was awarded at the North American meeting of the RSAI in Seattle (USA) on November 11-13, 2004.
2nd Prize winner of the EPAINOS (best paper presented by young scientist) award at European Regional Science Conference (ERSA) Porto 2004. (for paper: entrepreneurial culture, regional innovativeness, and economic growth)
Finalist for the Haynes best paper prize for scholars under 40 years at the Stockholm 2004 AIB meeting (paper: national cultural distance and bilateral trade)
Top 3 of Best Teacher at Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University 2002
Finalist for the Carolyn Dexter award for the best international paper at the Academy of Management (AoM) Conference 2002, Denver, August 9-14. Title of the paper: 'Opening the black-box of regional culture; a cross section of 54 regions'
Best paper award at CURE conference on Cultural Uniqueness and Regional Economy, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, November 22-24, 2000. Title of the paper: 'Regional cluster policies, learning by comparing?'