Prof. dr. Hultink, H.J.
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.
Academic Background
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.
Education
- 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
Experience
- 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.
Participation in a number of postgraduate courses on a regular basis. TIAS / ING, TIAS / Marketing College, Academie voor Management (RUG), Nyenrode, Avondcollege’s Marketing, EURIB Brand/Product Management, Syntens, CIHEAM Zaragoza, ALBA.
On a regular basis I advise companies on market acceptance, success and failure factors, and launch strategies for new products (e.g., KPN Telecom, CSM, Well Design, HAK, Sara Lee, Syntens).
Specialisation / field of research
- Launch strategies and new product performance (with Katrin Talke)
- Time to market strategies for new industrial products (with Prof. Dr. A. Griffin, USA and Dr. F. Langerak, EUR)
- IT usage and new product effectiveness (with Gloria Barczak/Fareena Sultan, Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
- Organizing for new product development: The moderating role of top management supervision (with Nukhet Harmancioglu, Bilkent University, Turkey)
Lectures and/or coaches students on:
- Marketing and launch planning / New product commercialization
- MarkStrat simulation
- Marketing strategy
- New products management
- New product economics / Forecasting
- Supervision of graduation projects of students in industrial design engineering
- Guest lectures (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain)
Secondary employment
Beschrijving: Examencollege, NIMA-C examen.
Instanties: NIMA.
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Productontwikkeling en Marketing
E.J. Hultink, J.P.L. Schoormans
ISBN: 978 90 4300 867 9
Published in 2006

Erik Jan Hultink
- +31 (0)15 27 83032
- H.J.Hultink@tudelft.nl
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Room B-4-170
"You can not save a bad product with a splendid launch strategy but you can surely kill a great product with a poor launch strategy"