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Judith Behrens is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre Emile Bernheim (CEBRIG) and former Director of TIMES² – Technology, Innovation, Management, Entrepreneurship & Strategy Research Center. In the academic year 2025–2026, she is on a research sabbatical at the Institute für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn.
Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, decision-making, and innovation outcomes, with ongoing projects on team resilience, sustainable investment decisions, and innovation project transitions. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in leading international academic journals. She serves on the editorial review boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. To support her research, she has secured competitive funding from organizations such as Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Fonds d’Encouragement à la Recherche, and Stiftung Industrieforschung. She has also organized major academic events, including the Belgium Entrepreneurship Research Day and the Technology Transfer Society (T2S) conference.
She teaches a range of courses, including Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Advanced Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. For her class “Social Entrepreneurship” she won the Best Teacher Award at the faculty.
Before joining ULB, Judith Behrens was a Habilitand at the Technische Universität München and a visiting scholar at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She completed her Ph.D. at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. She studied economics at the Universität Witten/Herdecke and general management at the Stockholm University School of Business. Before her academic career, she worked in the banking sector at Deutsche Bank AG and American Mortgage Express in the United States.
Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, decision-making, and innovation outcomes, with ongoing projects on team resilience, sustainable investment decisions, and innovation project transitions. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in leading international academic journals. She serves on the editorial review boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. To support her research, she has secured competitive funding from organizations such as Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Fonds d’Encouragement à la Recherche, and Stiftung Industrieforschung. She has also organized major academic events, including the Belgium Entrepreneurship Research Day and the Technology Transfer Society (T2S) conference.
She teaches a range of courses, including Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Advanced Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. For her class “Social Entrepreneurship” she won the Best Teacher Award at the faculty.
Before joining ULB, Judith Behrens was a Habilitand at the Technische Universität München and a visiting scholar at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She completed her Ph.D. at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. She studied economics at the Universität Witten/Herdecke and general management at the Stockholm University School of Business. Before her academic career, she worked in the banking sector at Deutsche Bank AG and American Mortgage Express in the United States.
RESEARCH FIELDS
Entrepreneurship | Innovation Management | Decision Making
most representative publications
- Organizational ambidexterity in family-managed firms: The role of family involvement in top management, Kammerlander, N., Patzelt, H., Behrens, J., & Röhm, C., Family Business Review, 33, 4, pp. 393-423, 2021.
- Perceived project transition support and employees´ assessments of entrepreneurial project performance, Patzelt, H., Behrens J., Wolfe M., & D. Shepherd, Journal of Business Venturing, 35, 1, pp. 1-25, 2020.
- Corporate entrepreneurship managers’ project terminations: Integrating portfolio-level, individual-level, and firm-level effects, J. Behrens, & H. Patzelt, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 40, 4, pp. 815-842, 2016.
- The decision to exploit an R&D project: Divergent thinking across middle and senior managers, Behrens J., H. Ernst, & D.A. Shepherd, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31, 1, pp. 144-158, 2014.
