Geert Duysters (1966) is a professor of entrepreneurship at Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University. He currently acts as the scientific director of the Brabant Center of Entrepreneurship, a joint Center of Tilburg University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2010 he was awarded a distinguished Chutian Professorship at Wuhan University of Technology (China).

He holds a PhD in economics and has worked at the University of Maastricht and the TU Eindhoven as subsequently, researcher, assistant professor, associate professor and full professor.He is a former Professorial fellow of UNU-MERIT (A research and training center of the United Nations and Maastricht University). He worked as an alliance expert for the European Commission and the OECD. From 2000-2003 he has been the Director of the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation studies (ECIS). He also acted as Associate Dean of the faculty of technology Management from 2004-2006.

His academic research mainly concerns corporate entrepreneurship, international business strategies, innovation strategies, mergers and acquisitions, network analytical methods and strategic alliances. He has published over 80 international refereed articles and book chapters in among others: Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Industrial and Corporate Change, Small Business Economics and many other international refereed journals. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, The Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, the Serbian Journal of Management, The South East Asian Journal of Management, The International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations (IJKBO), the Open Management Journal and the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. He also acts as an associate editor of the Journal on Chain and Network Science.