Assistant​/Associate Professor Entrepreneurship & Business Development

Do you want to shape how the next generation of Liberal Arts & Sciences students learns to think and act like entrepreneurs and help build the bridge between University College Venlo and the region's business community? We look forward to meeting you at Maastricht University in Venlo!

• Our goal: University College Venlo (UCV) offers an interdisciplinary Liberal Arts & Sciences programme with a thematic focus on sustainable food systems. We want our students to develop genuine entrepreneurial skills and connect with the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Over time, we expect you to develop and bring similar entrepreneurship education to other Venlo-based Maastricht University educational programmes.
• Your colleagues: You join a small, close-knit team of UCV lecturers and researchers working across health, food, behaviour and sustainability, in a fully international, small-scale teaching environment.

As Assistant/Associate Professor Entrepreneurship & Business Development, you combine two roles: firstly, developing and teaching entrepreneurship, innovation and business modules within UCV while building a coherent entrepreneurship learning line across the curriculum. At the same time, you develop UCV's business network in the Venlo/Euregion region by connecting students, researchers and companies, and laying the groundwork for entrepreneurship education across other UM programmes.

• Develop and teach modules on entrepreneurship, innovation, responsible innovation and business within UCV's Liberal Arts & Sciences curriculum, focused on sustainable food systems.
• Build and further develop a coherent entrepreneurship learning line through the UCV curriculum, including project-based learning and skills training.
• Translate your educational vision into concrete practice, in line with Maastricht's CCCS approach to student-centred, collaborative and inquiry-driven learning.
• Contribute to curriculum development within UCV and, over time, to entrepreneurship education in other Bright lands campus programmes.
• Build and maintain a network in the Venlo/Euregion business and innovation community.
• Act as a bridge between companies, researchers and students, identifying collaboration opportunities and facilitating partnerships.
• Stimulate real entrepreneurial activity by and with students, connecting them to practitioners and organisations in the region.
• Work structurally with UM's Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CEI): align the UCV entrepreneurship learning line with CEI's UM-wide curricular and extracurricular offer, connect Venlo students to CEI's venture support and competition portfolio, and bring the Venlo/Euregion agri-food network into CEI's regional ecosystem work.
• Support the valorisation of knowledge and talent arising from these collaborations.

Are you ready to help build the next generation of entrepreneurs and the networks they need? Then we’d love to meet you.

We’re not looking for check boxes; we’re interested in who you are and what you bring. Do you recognise yourself in this?

• A PhD in entrepreneurship, innovation, business administration, management or a related field.
• Solid teaching experience and a clearly articulated educational vision that fits Maastricht's CCCS/PBL approach.
• An existing network in, or genuine motivation to build one within, the Venlo/Euregion business and innovation community.
• An entrepreneurial, outward-facing mindset — as comfortable building partnerships outside the university as teaching inside it.
• Interest in or experience with agri-food systems, food innovation, sustainability transitions or circular economy is a plus.

At Maastricht University, you’ll work in an international, open, and engaged environment. We offer:

• A 12-month…