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Philipp Koellinger is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam and is co-director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology. His research interests are in the fields of genoeconomics, behavioral economics, entrepreneurship and innovation. In particular, he studies the role of genes, cognitive limits and affect on economic behavior, with entrepreneurship as a particularly vivid and relevant example.
Koellinger is one of the principal investigators and co-founders of the Gentrepreneur Consortium and the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC). He teaches a new PhD course on “Genoeconomics”, at the Tinbergen Institute, annually from 2015, with Niels Rietveld, Daniel Benjamin and David Cesarini.