Kristina Vaarst Andersen

Kristina Vaarst Andersen is a Business Development Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Technology and Didactics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her work bridges organizational culture, learning processes, and strategic business challenges, with a focus on eco-industrial clusters and innovation dynamics. She actively contributes to academic conferences and holds editorial roles in journals like the Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research.

Research interests include how organizational culture interacts with learning to drive or hinder transformation, commercialization strategies in creative industries, and human resource implications of corporate insolvency. Her projects, such as GRACE (Grid Capacity-Aware Investment Roadmap for Eco-Industrial Clusters), highlight her engagement with sustainability and infrastructure challenges in industrial systems.

Andersen has received prestigious awards including the Strategic Management Society’s Best Paper Award (2016), John Bessant Best Paper Award (2023), and a Proposal Award from an academic group (2014). Her academic activities span organizing international conferences like the Academy of Management 2024 and DRUID Academy events, alongside delivering keynote lectures and peer-review work.

She collaborates internationally, evidenced by her recent conference engagements in Denmark and the US. No specific lab or team affiliations are explicitly mentioned in the text, though her project involvement suggests participation in interdisciplinary technical and business strategy teams at DTU.