Geoffrey Aerts

Geoffrey Aerts is the academic director for the VUB BUDA institute. BUDA stands for Business Development Academy and offers support services to VUB researchers. His research focuses on knowledge management in projects and companies with a public-private character, the strategic management of public & private companies and technology transfer between universities and industrial partners.

education

Research Professionalization

research

Knowledge Management

Technology Transfer

Strategic Management

Business Development

key publications

Aerts, G., Grage, T., Dooms, M., & Haezendonck, E. (2014). Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Port Infrastructure: An Explorative Multi-Actor Perspective on Critical Success Factors. The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 30(3), 273-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajsl.2014.12.002

Aerts, G., Dooms, M., & Haezendonck, E. (2017). Knowledge transfers and project-based learning in large scale infrastructure development projects: an exploratory and comparative ex-post analysis. International Journal of Project Management, 35(3), 224-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.10.010

Aerts, G. (2015). Essays on public-private mixing: A knowledge transfer perspective.