Teaching-oriented Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation

The Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship of Tilburg University invites applications for a position as a teaching-oriented Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. 

Your position 
As our new teaching-oriented Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, you will play a pivotal role in nurturing the enterprising spirit of our students. You will:

• Co-teach innovative, experiential Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation courses, focusing on design thinking, product development, business modeling, and business planning.
• Collaborate with industry professionals such as scale-up entrepreneurs, professional investors, corporate entrepreneurs, and new business developers to bring real-world insights into your classroom and ensure our students benefit from the latest trends and practices.
• Contribute to the department’s cohesion and enterprising spirit. We expect you to challenge the status quo and proactively contribute to our endeavors.

You will teach (mostly) courses in the BSc Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation program and supervise graduation projects. The E&BI program is unparalleled in its ambition to provide a relevant and evidence-based academic degree program that equips and empowers future business innovators and entrepreneurs. Its curriculum is designed to introduce students to the scholarly evidence base that provides a solid basis to develop professional competence. The program complements more traditional courses with experiential, challenge-based, and team-learning-based courses. These offer a hands-on learning journey, enabling students to immerse themselves in real-world challenges and opportunities to start and scale businesses and learn through and from immersing.

Your teaching tasks will ensure you develop beyond traditional teaching roles; you will coach, mentor, and bridge between academia and practice, guiding students as they prepare to become pioneers who tackle substantive societal challenges. Successful candidates demonstrate a passionate drive to become a teaching-oriented scholar in Entrepreneurship and/or Business Innovation. 

We can hire applicants to join the Department as of January 2026 but an earlier or later start is possible. We are looking for candidates with a Ph.D. from a reputable university, evidence of strong teaching, and some demonstrated research potential. The ability to teach in Dutch is a plus, as is possession of a (Senior) University Teaching Qualification.

Are you:  

• A candidate with a doctoral degree from an AACSB-accredited school or from a school with outstanding scholarly credentials,
• Experienced in teaching courses on (combinations of) various subfields of entrepreneurship and/or innovation, such as new venture growth and survival, new product development, or business model innovation,
• An entrepreneurial thinker with experience in, or a strong understanding of, business modeling, design thinking, product- and production engineering, and new product development,
• Familiar with experiential and challenge-based pedagogies,

Then consider joining us.

As part of the university’s gender equality roadmap, female candidates are especially encouraged to apply for the position. 

Our offer 
Tilburg University offers excellent benefits in a pleasant working environment: 

• Employment of 1 fte.
• Salary between € 4537 and € 6209 gross per month for full-time employment (UFO-profile Assistant Professor 2, salary scale 11). Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system based on relevant work experience.
• This is a vacancy for a position in accordance with Article 2.3 paragraph 1 CLA DU. You will be given a temporary contract for the duration of 18 months. If, in the opinion of the employer, you perform well, there is continuation in the same position and equal financial and organizational conditions, you will be given a permanent contract after this.
• Vacation pay of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.
• Over 8 weeks of vacation leave.
• Hybrid working with home working allowance (€2 p/day) and internet allowance (€25 p/month).
• Reimbursement sustainable commuting: walking, cycling, and public transport.
• Options model for additional leave, pension, a bicycle or personal training.
• Moving allowance (subject to conditions).
• 30% rule for international employees (if applicable).
• Pension through ABP.
• Ample training offer: personal development, leadership, education, research or language courses.
• Inclusive work culture: everyone welcome, equal opportunities.
• A green, inviting campus that’s easily accessible by public transport.

For more information, please see our website and the CLA Dutch Universities. 

Tilburg University is an academic, inclusive, and engaged community. Together with nearly 3,000 employees, we are committed to broad prosperity, sustainably, and inclusion. For current and future generations. We develop and share knowledge for the requirements of people and our society. This is how we contribute to solving complex social issues and help society move forward.

We educate our 19,500 students of 110 nationalities to become responsible leaders with knowledge, skills, and character. With our education and research for broad prosperity, we exceedingly focus on themes such as mental and preventive care, an inclusive labor market, the energy transition, and digitalization.

The Department has a very strong research orientation with a focus on high-quality publications. Faculty members publish widely in leading journals both in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. We carefully safeguard the research time available to research-active faculty and working conditions are otherwise comparable to major research universities in Europe and North America. Compensation is competitive and among the top in Dutch universities. In addition, we provide guaranteed travel funds. 

The members of the Department come from leading universities in North America, Asia, and Europe. We are a diverse and collegial group of research-oriented colleagues, including a terrific group of junior and recently hired scholars. 

Want to know more? 
Would you like to know more before applying? Feel free to contact the chair of the recruiting committee, Dr. Werner Liebregts (W.J.Liebregts@tilburguniversity.edu).