Curriculum vitae Personalia Name: Date of birth: Address: Mobile: E-mail: Nationality:
Daniël Speldekamp January 4th, 1991 Vossenhol 3, 6681DJ Bemmel +31 06 588 49 862
[email protected] Dutch
Profile I am a passionate researcher with the ambition to develop myself both personally and professionally. Relevant professional experience August 2015 – present
PhD candidate My four year PhD candidacy at Nijmegen focuses on the drivers of innovativeness in the European aerospace clusters in civil aviation. I study the impact of geography, firm networks and national institutional conditions. My promotor is prof. dr. Joris Knoben and the PhD supervisor is dr. Ayse Saka-Helmhout. I am part of the research programme group innovation and entrepreneurship in business ecosystems. Misc. activities: Creating and teaching a graduate course (Technology & Innovation Policy) for various Economics tracks. I worked together with prof. dr. Knoben. Member of the selection commission for new PhD candidates.
December 2013 – Juli 2015
Researcher at Utrecht University The Centre of Expertise for Urban Dynamics and Sustainability (Dutch: ‘Expertisecentrum Stedelijke Dynamiek & Duurzaamheid’, ESD²) is responsible for conducting valorisation research. Commissioning parties include Ministry of Economic Affairs, Economic Board Utrecht and various municipalities. I worked alongside prof. dr. Atzema and dr. Han Olden.
May 2012 – September 2012
Senior editor at GameBusiness (Gameliner) Gameliner was a video game website and webshop. I was responsible for writing reviews, columns and organizing, evaluating and correcting the work of other editors.
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November 2009 – June 2010
Webshop manager and editor at Gameliner Gameliner averaged 150.000 unique visitors each month. I was responsible for the webshop and writing miscellaneous articles.
Relevant education 2013 – 2014
Master of Science, Economic Geography (Business Geography) Utrecht University Cum laude The graduate programme focuses on government, business and consumers. Their spatial strategies and behaviours are examined. Students also investigate the development of regions and the role of government policies. Graduates are able to critically conduct and evaluate both scientific and societally relevant research on an academic level. My thesis (change from within: dynamics and employment growth; in Dutch: ‘verandering van binnenuit: dynamiek en werkgelegenheids-groei’) investigates the link between business dynamics and employ-ment. It utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods. Further, extensive use of Geographic Information Systems is made. It was graded an 8,5 (on a ten-point scale) by dr. Han Olden and prof. dr. Frank van Oort. The quantitative analysis is based on several econometric models. These are primarily based on OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) methods and used in conjunction with longitudinal firm-level data for the entirety of the Netherlands between 1996 and 2012. The thesis employs the recently developed entropy measures related and unrelated variety. The qualitative analysis is based on in-depth interviews, for instance with a high-level official (the ambassador to the North-West Netherlands).
2011 – 2013
Honours College Geosciences Utrecht University The Honours programme gives enthusiastic and promising students the opportunity to develop their academic competencies. During my studies I conducted several research projects, for instance detailing the relationship between weather and bicycle use. Moreover, I also studied agricultural clusters and wrote an Honours thesis (article). Further, the Honours programme challenges students to develop extracurricular activities. I chose to develop a new digital platform for Honours students. The platform was developed in Microsoft Sharepoint and uses Google APIs to investigate user-experience. 2
2010 – 2013
Honours Bachelor of Science, Human Geography and Planning Utrecht University Human Geographers strive to understand the development of cities and regions. Spatial aspects of this development primarily catch their attention. During my studies, I completed two majors: Economic Geography and Geographic Information Systems. I also completed courses in political geography, globalization, development geography, migration and real estate. Driven by my academic interest, I completed the Honours programme for excelling students. The study programme was 210 ECTS instead of 180 credits due to additional courses and activities. My Honours thesis was written as an English academic article (title: LETS to the people). It investigates the spatial distribution of Local Exchange Trading Systems in the Netherlands. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are utilized. In addition to a logistic regression, ten in-depth interviews were conducted with leading volunteers in Dutch LETS programmes. The end result was graded 8,5 (on a tenpoint scale) by prof. dr. Oedzge Atzema and prof. dr. Frank van Oort.
Pre 2010
VWO (Pre-university Education) Christelijke Scholengemeenschap de Heemgaard Topic areas: economy and society. Additional courses: geography, management studies, movement studies and French.
Languages Verbal
Written
Dutch
Native
Native
English
Excellent
Excellent
German
Basic
Basic
French
Basic
Basic
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Additional competencies Certificate European Union project writing Competitive regional development with structural funds Certificate received January 2014 from Universitatea Ioan Slavici (Timișoara, Romania) Computer-related experience Basic: Statistics: GIS: Graphic design: Software development: Web development: Programming: Organising: Hardware: Hobbies English literature: Science: Various interests:
Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Access IBM SPSS Statistics Esri ArcGIS Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator Eclipse (IDE), GIT, GitHub WordPress, Joomla, Sharepoint CMS, MySQL Basic knowledge of C, C#, Java, and various scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript & PHP); good knowledge of markup languages Server administrator & LAN-party organizer (yearly 2005-2010 @ 75 attendants – CSG de Heemgaard) Assembling computers & troubleshooting
E.g. Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Philip K. Dick, Orwell, A. Huxley, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams I enjoy reading up on new discoveries in both exact and social sciences Politics & economics (and their intersection); FOSS (Free and OpenSource Software movement); gaming; programming (f.i. for open source games); films
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Publications & key presentations: Boersma, J.H., Janssen, K., Keijsers, W., Tap, J.W., Cerutti, V., Atzema, O.A.L.C., Olden, H. & Speldekamp, D. (2016). MicRO Enschede: een bottom up verkenning van regionale dynamiek. Utrecht: Bureau Nieuwe Gracht. Boersma, J.H., Janssen, K., Keijsers, W., Tap, J.W., Cerutti, V., Atzema, O.A.L.C., Olden, H. & Speldekamp, D. (2016). MicRO Maastricht: een bottom up verkenning van regionale dynamiek. Utrecht: Bureau Nieuwe Gracht. Boersma, J.H., Janssen, K., Keijsers, W., Tap, J.W., Cerutti, V., Atzema, O.A.L.C., Olden, H. & Speldekamp, D. (2016). MicRO Tilburg: een bottom up verkenning van regionale dynamiek. Utrecht: Bureau Nieuwe Gracht. Speldekamp, D. (2015). Verandering van binnenuit: dynamiek en werkgelegenheid. Stichting LISA Nieuws 20(30). Atzema, O.A.L.C., Koops, O., Manshanden, W., Olden, H. & Speldekamp, D. (2015, June). Verdienvermogen en aanpassingsvermogen in de Noordvleugel. Presented at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Hague. Atzema, O.A.L.C., Speldekamp, D. & Terlouw, K. (2015). De Heuvelrug Kromme RijnStreek: over complementariteit en identiteit. Utrecht: Utrecht University. Olden, H., Sikkens, N. & Speldekamp, D. (2014). Het aanpassingsvermogen van de Utrechtse economie: een kwantitatieve verkenning van de bedrijvigheidsdynamiek in vier deelregio’s van de provincie Utrecht. Utrecht: Utrecht University/Economic Board Utrecht. Speldekamp, D. (2014). Verandering van binnenuit - dynamiek en werkgelegenheid. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht. Atzema, O.A.L.C., Koops, O., Manshanden, W., Olden, H. & Speldekamp, D. (2014). Quick Scan Regionale Clusters Utrecht - een objectieve vergelijking van regionale clusters. Delft: TNO. Atzema, O.A.L.C. & Speldekamp, D. (2014, March). Economische Kracht van Utrecht: Vertrouwde en nieuwe zienswijzen op regionaal en lokaal economisch beleid. Presented at Economic Board Utrecht College.
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