With a BA in business and engineering, a MSc in management and a PhD in economics and management from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Nicolas van Zeebroeck is now Assistant Professor at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) at ULB. During his PhD (Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Patent Systems), he has been teaching assistant to Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Theory of Innovation & Entrepreneurship), Hugues Bersini (Object Oriented Programming) and Tawfik Jelassi (Management Information Systems, IT & e-Commerce for Global Competitiveness). During his post-doctoral research funded by the FNRS, he was invited as a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His research and teachings focus on the economics and strategic management of knowledge, and contribute to the technology, strategic and economic dimensions of business intelligence and knowledge management systems. His research has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Information Economics and Policy, Scientometrics, and Pattern Recognition and has been presented in over 30 international conferences and seminars. Nicolas has also served as a strategy consultant for private and public organisations, advising companies mostly on issues relating with e-business, ICT, business intelligence and knowledge management.