With a MSc in Management and a PhD in Economics and Management from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Nicolas is now FNRS Post-Doctoral Researcher at ECARES and Lecturer at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) at ULB, where his research and teachings focus on the economics and strategic management of knowledge. Nicolas started his career as a consultant at Capgemini, where he has been working on e-business and knowledge management projects for large firms in the telecoms, automotive and graphical industries in Belgium and France as well as for European Institutions. 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). He also managed and coached 15 strategy consulting projects performed by MBASolvay students for private and public organisations, acted as a consultant for different companies on issues relating with e-business, ICT and knowledge management, and gave lectures and seminars on IT management, innovation management, business strategy, Text Mining and Object Oriented Development. Since then, Nicolas has been a visiting scholar at the College of Management at GeorgiaTech (Atlanta) and has published 10+ scholarly articles in international refereed journals (e.g. Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Scientometrics, Information Economics and Policy) and given 25+ talks in international conferences and seminars on innovation, IP and knowledge management. His research interests cover the areas of strategic management, knowledge economics, knowledge management, innovation management, management information systems and business intelligence.