Effective innovation strategies for incumbent firms

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thank you for being my supervisors! Your enthusiasm, involvement, and wise advice meant a lot to me. Klaasjan Visscher, thank you for the informative and pleasant feedback moments. I learned a lot from Petra, Bart, and Klaasjan. You also gave me the opportunity to participate in other research projects besides my own Ph.D. research. I am also grateful for being given the opportunity to participate in congresses worldwide. My career started in 2008 as a researcher at Vlerick Business School. During those fine years, I met Floortje Blindenbach-Driessen, prof. in Innovation Management. Soon we decided to work together and not much later the first Academy of Management Conference paper was a fact. This meant the start of an academic trajectory. One day our paths were separated, Floortje went to the US, I started with a Ph.D. at the University of Twente and the KU Leuven. We kept in touch. Floortje, you have played an important role as a sounding board and support in this whole Ph.D. story. I am very grateful to you.