Henri Burgers is the Head of the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Discipline at The University of Queensland. He obtained his PhD from the RSM Erasmus University, and worked at the Queensland University of Technology prior to joining UQ. His research focuses on the intersection of corporate entrepreneurship, managerial and organisational capabilities, and institutional contexts with the aim of helping individuals and organisations unlock their entrepreneurial potential. He has published in top journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Long Range Planning, and Technovation. He has worked with leading firms, industry associations and governments across the globe. His research received well over 1mln AUD in research funding, including two prestigious grants from the Australian Research Council to improve entrepreneurship and innovation in the natural resources industries.
Henri teaches courses and provides workshops on strategic decision-making and agile innovation for different levels. He has developed and transformed a wide range of Bachelor and Masters and Executive courses and programs to embed more entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making skills in curricula. He was awarded a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy for his teaching. He is a recognised reviewer for numerous journals and grants and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Business Venturing and Group and Organization Management.
Frederik is an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at UQ Business School and co-lead of the Emerging Technology Research Hub. His research examines how major changes in the business environment — such as technological advances, crises, regulatory shifts, and evolving industry conditions — shape opportunities, strategic choices, and outcomes for organisations of all sizes — from small start-ups to large multinationals.
He is particularly interested in how organisations create and capture value when they embrace and leverage external change rather than simply respond to it. He investigates these questions across different empirical settings, including strategic industry sectors, digital and emerging technologies, crises and disruptions, and entrepreneurship in hostile environments.
His research is closely connected to practice and has involved collaboration with organisations such as digital hardware start-ups, manufacturing firms, business accelerators, fintech unicorns, and some of the world's largest retailers. It generates evidence-based insights that help entrepreneurs, managers, and policymakers better understand uncertainty and change, and turn them into opportunities for innovation and growth.
Before joining UQ Business School, Frederik was a Senior Research Fellow at QUT Business School, where he managed the collaborative research programme with Woolworths Ltd. He received his PhD from City University of Hong Kong for his research on business accelerators and high-tech start-ups. Earlier in his career, he worked as a business intelligence consultant at Hewlett-Packard and as a customer relationship management specialist at IBM.
