Professor Erik Jan Hultink

Doctoral programs in Ghana

Professor Erik Jan Hultink

New Product Development & Marketing

Erik Jan Hultink is professor of New Product Marketing at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. He was one of the co-founders and the first director of the Master in Strategic Product Design. Erik Jan supervises many PhD and Master students on new product marketing, branding, and circular business model innovation. He was one of the co-founders and the first director of the Master in Strategic Product Design.

  • 1997
    Ph.D. dissertation, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Title: Launch strategies and new product performance (cum laude)
  • 1993
    MBA course on high tech marketing, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 1991
    Economics at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Propaedeutic exam 1988 (Cum Laude), Specializations: external organization and marketing and market research. M.Sc.
  • 1987
    Freshman year in Business Administration, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri, USA (Dean’s List)
  • 1986
    Grammar School, Science Degree, Thorbecke Scholengemeenschap, Zwolle

  • October 2002 - present
    Professor of New Product Marketing, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • May 1997 - September 2002
    Associate Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • May 1993 - April 1997
    Assistant Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • January 1992 - April 1993
    Research Fellow, Marketing Section, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

    1. Launch strategies and new product performance (with Katrin Talke)
    2. Time to market strategies for new industrial products (with Prof. Dr. A. Griffin, USA  and Dr. F. Langerak, EUR)
    3. IT usage and new product effectiveness (with Gloria Barczak/Fareena Sultan, Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
    4. Organizing for new product development: The moderating role of top management supervision (with Nukhet Harmancioglu, Bilkent University, Turkey)

  1. Marketing and launch planning / New product commercialization
  2. MarkStrat simulation
  3. Marketing strategy
  4. New products management
  5. New product economics / Forecasting
  6. Supervision of graduation projects of students in industrial design engineering
  7. Guest lectures (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain)

The Circular Economy–A new sustainability paradigm?

M Geissdoerfer, P Savaget, NMP Bocken, EJ Hultink
Journal of cleaner production 143, 757-768
4811 2017
The impact of market orientation, product advantage, and launch proficiency on new product performance and organizational performance

F Langerak, EJ Hultink, HSJ Robben
Journal of product innovation management 21 (2), 79-94
787 2004
Product design in a circular economy: Development of a typology of key concepts and terms

MC Den Hollander, CA Bakker, EJ Hultink
Journal of Industrial Ecology 21 (3), 517-525
492 2017
Design thinking to enhance the sustainable business modelling process–A workshop based on a value mapping process

M Geissdoerfer, NMP Bocken, EJ Hultink
Journal of Cleaner Production 135, 1218-1232
468 2016
Industrial new product launch strategies and product development performance

EJ Hultink, A Griffin, S Hart, HSJ Robben
Journal of product innovation management 14 (4), 243-257
395 1997
Industrial companies' evaluation criteria in new product development gates

S Hart, E Jan Hultink, N Tzokas, HR Commandeur
Journal of Product Innovation Management 20 (1), 22-36
394 2003
How Today's Consumers Perceive Tomorrow's Smart Products*

SA Rijsdijk, EJ Hultink
Journal of Product Innovation Management 26 (1), 24-42
315 2009
Measuring new product success: The difference that time perspective makes

EJ Hultink, HSJ Robben
Journal of Product Innovation Management: AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION OF …
300 1995
Launch decisions and new product success: an empirical comparison of consumer and industrial products

EJ Hultink, S Hart, HSJ Robben, A Griffin
Journal of Product Innovation Management: AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION OF …
288 2000
Exploring Portfolio Decision‐Making Processes*

L Kester, A Griffin, EJ Hultink, K Lauche
Journal of product innovation management 28 (5), 641-661
284 2011
Success factors for service innovation: A meta‐analysis

C Storey, P Cankurtaran, P Papastathopoulou, EJ Hultink
Journal of Product Innovation Management 33 (5), 527-548
281 2016
Navigating the new product development process

N Tzokas, EJ Hultink, S Hart
Industrial marketing management 33 (7), 619-626
269 2004
The effect of sales force adoption on new product selling performance

EJ Hultink, K Atuahene‐Gima
Journal of Product Innovation Management: An International Publication of …
227 2000
Determinants of IT Usage and New Product Performance*

G Barczak, F Sultan, EJ Hultink
Journal of product innovation management 24 (6), 600-613
225 2007
The impact of new product launch strategies on competitive reaction in industrial markets

M Debruyne, R Moenaertb, A Griffinc, S Hartd, EJ Hultinke, H Robben
Journal of Product Innovation Management: An International Publication of …
225 2002
The Impact of Product Innovativeness on the Link between Development Speed and New Product Profitability*

F Langerak, E Jan Hultink
Journal of product innovation management 23 (3), 203-214