Yannick Dillen

Yannick Dillen is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Vlerick Business School and Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent, University of Hasselt and University of Namur.

He obtained his PhD on the subject of high-growth firms in 2014 at the University of Antwerp. From 2010 to 2014, he was active at the employers’ organization Voka as a researcher. Hereafter, Yannick worked for the asset management firm Econopolis as a ‘private investments analist’. He joined Vlerick Business School in November 2015.
At Vlerick Business School, he teaches sessions and courses on Entrepreneurship and Business Model Innovation in the Masters, MBA and Open programmes. Besides teaching, he is managing the Impulse Centre for Growth Management (IGMO) within Vlerick’s Entrepreneurship department.

His research focuses on firm growth with start-ups, scale-ups and mature companies, with a specific expertise in high-growth firms resulting in the annual ‘Belgian High-Growth Monitor’, a research report that analyses the group of Belgian high-growth firms. His academic work was presented at several international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research.

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Strategic Risk Management
Business Growth
High-Growth Firms