Bart Kamp

Senior researcher

Over a timespan of more than 30 years of professional activity, Bart has acted as economist, trade promoter, researcher and consultant on e.g. innovation policy, industrial competitiveness, (foreign) investment climate, transport & infrastructure projects and regional development issues for multilateral institutions, governmental organizations and multinationals. He has extensively authored on these topics and has published articles in refereed journals and brought out several books on these topics. His work has appeared in Basque, Catalan, Dutch, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

He has ample experience in issuing recommendations for strategic management and financial investment decisions based on both quantitative cost-benefit analyses, due diligence exercises, and qualitative assessments to European institutions, governments and development agencies at national and regional level and to private companies (both multinationals and SMEs).

Career

Bart has obtained academic degrees in policy sciences from the Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) and in management and organization sciences from Tilburg University (NL).
He obtained a Ph.D. in organization sciences at Tilburg University (NL).
In addition to his work for Orkestra, Bart is thesis supervisor at Louvain School of Management (Belgium) and forms part of the Deusto Business School faculty.
He is a member of the editorial board to Industrial Marketing Management (Elsevier Science), which is the highest rated journal worldwide focusing on business-to-business (B2B) marketing management.