dr. Ferdinand Jaspers

Ferdinand Jaspers is adjunct faculty in Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Programme Director at Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE). He is also a visiting professor in the MBA programme at EMLYON Business School. His teaching and training activities focus on executive education. In particular, he facilitates masterclasses and workshops on corporate entrepreneurship, new business development, and entrepreneurial start-up and growth. In his work, Ferdinand adopts an integral perspective on entrepreneurship. He helps you to integrate and move beyond approaches such as discovery-driven planning, disruptive innovation, customer development & lean startup, value-based leadership, business modeling, effectuation, portfolio management, design thinking, and open innovation. He holds a Ph.D. in technology and innovation management from Rotterdam School of Management.