Prof. Dr. Judith Behrens

Main research interests

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Education

Technische Universität München, Habilitation

WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Dr. rer. pol.

Universität Witten Herdecke, Diplom Ökonomin

Deutsche Bank AG, Bank Clerk

Biography

Judith Behrens is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She is the Director of the research center TIMES 2 and a Research Fellow of CEBRIG (Centre Emile Bernheim de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Gestion). 

In her research, Judith Behrens studies entrepreneurship, decision-making, and innovation outcomes. For example, she looks at entrepreneurial thinking and cognition within organizations, project and portfolio management, and digital entrepreneurship. Her work aims to conduct management research that explains how organizations and start-ups can strategically shape change in an increasingly digitalized world. She is in the editorial review board of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Journal of Product Innovation Management. To realize her projects, she was involved in funding activities (e.g., Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Fonds d’Encouragement à la Recherche, Stiftung Industrieforschung). 

Judith Behrens was a Habilitand at Technische Universität München and a visiting scholar at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She did her Ph.D. at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. She studied economics at Universität Witten Herdecke and general management at Stockholm University - School of Business. Before starting in academia, she worked for several years in the banking sector at Deutsche Bank AG and American Mortgage Express, USA.