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Cindy Lopes Bento serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business. Her office is located at Naamsestraat 69, box 3535, 3000 Leuven (room 03.151), with an ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4969-3755. She actively contributes to academic research and teaching, including the course 'Introduction to Management and Strategy' (D0R78A).
Her research spans critical domains including Innovation, Innovation Policy, Strategy, Policy evaluation, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Science, and Industry-science links. These interconnected interests drive investigations into how organizations innovate, the effectiveness of science funding mechanisms, and knowledge transfer dynamics between academia and industry. Her methodological approach combines rigorous econometric analysis with policy-relevant frameworks.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2017-2025) reveals consistent focus on empirical evaluation of science policy interventions. Key trends include microfoundations of scientific teams, asymmetric information in funding allocation, R&D subsidy effectiveness, and export-induced innovation. Her work frequently examines how research funding mechanisms, industry-science collaborations, and knowledge transfer programs impact innovation outcomes through large-scale data analysis.
No scientific awards were explicitly mentioned in the provided sources.
Dr. Lopes Bento currently leads multiple competitive research projects demonstrating significant grant acquisition success. These include 'Do Narrative CVs Reduce the Asymmetric Information Problem in Science Funding?' (2023-2027, Co-promotor), 'The Economics of Science – Random Selection in the Awarding of Research Funding' (2022-2026, Promotor), and dual projects on scientific team microfoundations (2021-2025, Co-promotor). These initiatives address fundamental questions about research evaluation, funding allocation equity, and team science dynamics.
