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Marcus Dejardin

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Biography

Marcus Dejardin is full professor of economics at the UCLouvain and the Université de Namur, with expertise in the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation, regional economics, and public policy analysis. He has developed an interest in multidisciplinary research design. 
Marcus is director of the Chair of Excellence for Research and Expertise in Entrepreneurship (CHEREE) and of the CERPE, Université de Namur, and academic member of LIDAM-CIRTES, Université catholique de Louvain; research associate of Mines Paris - PSL. He is founding editor of the New Economics Papers – Entrepreneurship Newsletter; editor of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal. He is also a coopted member of the Belgian Central Economic Council.
Marcus is a former Ameritech visiting scholar at the Institute for Development Strategies, SPEA, Indiana University Bloomington; a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena; and a Past Chair of the DeFiPP research institute. He was an invited professor at the Universidad de Deusto, Université de Caen Normandie, Université Paris Nanterre and Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Faculties/Departments/Services

Research institutes

Research center

Centre de recherche en économie régionale et politique économique - Directeur/Directrice d'un centre/unité de recherche

Organs

Domains of expertise

Economics of Entrepreneurship, Economics of Innovation, Regional Economics, Public Policy Evaluation.

External responsibilities

Catholic University of Louvain
Founding member of the Entrepreneurship Research Society (ERS).
Member of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.

Founding editor of New Economics Papers - Entrepreneurship. 
Editor of Small Business Economics. 

Refereeing activities for Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Business Venturing, World Development, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Small Business Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Recherches Economiques de Louvain - Louvain Economic Review,  Papers in Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, Regional Studies, Sustainability, Revue d'Economie Régionale et Urbaine, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, International Review of Entrepreneurship, International Journal of the Economics of Business, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Brussels Economic Review - Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, Géographie-Economie-Société, Management International, Revue Internationale PME, Formation Emploi, Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, Brussels Studies; Pearson Education.

Degrees

PhD in Economics

2026-2027

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