A business and finance executive based in Brussels, Belgium, Jean-Jacques Degroof, PhD, is a venture investor and entrepreneurship teacher in numerous European business schools. Jean-Jacques Degroof received his PhD in management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and after his studies, he served as a researcher and later an affiliate researcher with the MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC).

1. Jean-Jacques Degroof

2.  A business and finance executive based in
Brussels, Belgium, Jean-Jacques Degroof, PhD, is a
venture investor and entrepreneurship teacher in
numerous European business schools. Jean-Jacques
Degroof received his PhD in management from the
Sloan School of Management at MIT, and after his
studies, he served as a researcher and later an
affiliate researcher with the MIT Industrial
Performance Center (IPC).
Dedicated to the study of productivity, innovation,
and competitiveness, the IPC unites researchers
from a variety of fields to investigate industrial
growth and transformation.

3.  Through its Energy Innovation Project, the IPC
attempts to suggest strategies to accelerate the
transition to a lower-carbon energy economy.
Energy innovation research at the IPC concentrates
primarily on novel energy innovation systems at
all scales, from the local to the international levels.
To overcome obstacles to innovation, IPC takes
into consideration the complex set of incentives,
regulations, market, and public as well as private
interests against which early adoption and
diffusion of new energy technologies take place.