Peter de Langen

Name Dr. Peter W. de Langen

Date of birth 30-4-1973

Employment record

1997 - present Research position at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Academic background

1991-1996 Study Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, specialisation: Transport and regional economics

1997- present Research position in the department of transport, port and regional economics, chair Port Economics 2004 PhD in Economics, Thesis Title: The performance of seaport clusters; a framework to analyze cluster performance and an application to the seaport clusters in Durban, Rotterdam and the lower Mississippi

Key qualifications

Dr. Peter W. de Langen has worked for over 8 years as a transport, port and regional economist at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is active in teaching, contract research and academic research. He specialises in port economics and has studied various aspects of ports, such as trade forecasting, entrepreneurship and innovation in ports, labour relations in seaports, long range planning in seaports, economic clustering in seaports and port competition. With regard to contract research, he has participated in studies on change processes in the Port of Rotterdam, international policies related to seaports, clustering in maritime industries, governance in seaport clusters, entrepreneurship in seaports and innovation in ship design. He has project management experience from a substantial number of projects. He has finished a PhD-thesis on the ‘Performance of Seaport Clusters’ and published a number of articles on this issue.

Teaching

Coordinator and lecturer Port economics, a course in the master 'Economics and Business'

Coordinator and lecturer Economics of port cities, a course in the master 'Economics and Business'

Coordinator and lecturer Port economics and policy, a 'core course' of the international post-experience masters programme Maritime Economics and Logistics.

Contributions to various other courses, both at Erasmus University and elsewhere

Teaching overseas, including Letland (1999) South Africa (2000) and Ethiopia (2000, 2004)

Experience in research projects (selection)

Study on the long term future of the port of Rotterdam (project leader)

Study on the 'level playing field' in North-European ports (project leader)

Study on entrepreneurship in the port of Rotterdam (project leader)

Study on leader firm behaviour in the Dutch maritime cluster (project leader)

Study on new concepts in short-sea shipping (project leader)

Study on renewal processes in the port of Rotterdam (project leader)

Publications (selection)

Langen, P. W. de (2002) Clustering and performance; the case of maritime clustering in the Netherlands, Maritime policy and management vol 29 no 3 pp 209-221

Klink, H. A. van and Langen, P. W. de (2001) Cycles in industrial clusters: the case of the shipbuilding industry in the Northern Netherlands, Tijdschrift Sociale en Eonomische Geografie, vol. 92, nr. 4 pp 449 - 463

Langen, P.W. de (1999). Time Centrality in transport. International journal of Maritime Economics, 1(2), 41-55.

Langen, P.W. de, & Welters, H.W.H. (1999). Innovations in the freight transport market. In P. Faller (Ed.), Transportwirtschaft im Umbruch (pp. 169-182). Wien: Linde Verlag. ·

Analysing the performance of seaport clusters, in: Shipping and Ports in the 21st century, D. Hoyle and B. Slack (eds) Routledge.