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Ooms Frédéric

HEC Liège : UER > UER Management: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

HEC Liège Research: Strategy & Performance for the Society

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ORCID
0000-0002-3920-2692
Main Referenced Co-authors
Surlemont, Bernard  (9)
Wouters, Johan (8)
Laureys, Steven  (6)
Collette, Fabienne  (5)
Annen, Jitka  (4)
Main Referenced Keywords
Drug Discovery (10); entrepreneurship (9); Molecular Medicine (9); neuroentrepreneurship (8); Animals (7);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
GIGA CRC (Cyclotron Research Center) In vivo Imaging-Aging & Memory - ULiège (1)
HEC Liège Research - ULiège (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Chemistry (17)
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory (13)
Business & economic sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (12)
Neurosciences & behavior (4)
Strategy & innovation (3)

Publications (total 45)

The most downloaded
222 downloads
Obschonka, M., Grégoire, D. A., Nikolaev, B., Ooms, F., Lévesque, M., Pollack, J. M., & Behrend, T. S. (May 2025). Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers [letter to the editor]. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 49 (3), 620-641. doi:10.1177/10422587241304676 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/325814

The most cited

312 citations (Scopus®)

Brühlmann, C., Ooms, F., Carrupt, P.-A., Testa, B., Catto, M., Leonetti, F., Altomare, C., & Carotti, A. (13 September 2001). Coumarins derivatives as dual inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase and monoamine oxidase. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 44 (19), 3195 - 3198. doi:10.1021/jm010894d https://hdl.handle.net/2268/320304

The most significant

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Cecconi, B., Surlemont, B., & Laureys, S. (November 2024). Entrepreneurial neuroanatomy: Exploring gray matter volume in habitual entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22, 00480. doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00480
Peer reviewed

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Meunier, P., Tshibanda, L., Laureys, S., Pollack, J. M., & Surlemont, B. (March 2024). Advancing (Neuro)Entrepreneurship Cognition Research Through Resting-State fMRI: A Methodological Brief. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 48 (2), 719-741. doi:10.1177/10422587231170217
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Ooms, F., Surlemont, B., Annen, J., Panda, R., & Laureys, S. (August 2023). The Habitual Entrepreneur Brain – A Voxel Based Morphometry Study. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023 (1). doi:10.5465/amproc.2023.142bp
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Thesis and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Ooms, F. (2023). The Entrepreneurial Cognitive Flexibility. A Study at the Intersection of Neuroscience and Entrepreneurship [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - University of Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/301474

Scientific outputs

Articles in scientific journals with peer reviewing verified by ORBi or included in HEC journal guide

Obschonka, M., Grégoire, D. A., Nikolaev, B., Ooms, F., Lévesque, M., Pollack, J. M., & Behrend, T. S. (May 2025). Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers [letter to the editor]. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 49 (3), 620-641. doi:10.1177/10422587241304676
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Cecconi, B., Surlemont, B., & Laureys, S. (November 2024). Entrepreneurial neuroanatomy: Exploring gray matter volume in habitual entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22, 00480. doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00480
Peer reviewed

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Meunier, P., Tshibanda, L., Laureys, S., Pollack, J. M., & Surlemont, B. (March 2024). Advancing (Neuro)Entrepreneurship Cognition Research Through Resting-State fMRI: A Methodological Brief. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 48 (2), 719-741. doi:10.1177/10422587231170217
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Ooms, F., Surlemont, B., Annen, J., Panda, R., & Laureys, S. (August 2023). The Habitual Entrepreneur Brain – A Voxel Based Morphometry Study. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023 (1). doi:10.5465/amproc.2023.142bp
Peer reviewed

Hoveyda, H. R., Fraser, G. L., Zoute, L., Dutheuil, G., Schils, D., Brantis, C., Lapin, A., Parcq, J., Guitard, S., Lenoir, F., Bousmaqui, M. E., Rorive, S., Hospied, S., Blanc, S., Bernard, J., Ooms, F., McNelis, J. C., & Olefsky, J. M. (01 October 2018). N-Thiazolylamide-based free fatty-acid 2 receptor agonists: Discovery, lead optimization and demonstration of off-target effect in a diabetes model. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 26 (18), 5169 - 5180. doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2018.09.015
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Ferain, T., Hoveyda, H., Ooms, F., Schols, D., Bernard, J., & Fraser, G. (June 2011). Agonist-induced internalization of CC chemokine receptor 5 as a mechanism to inhibit HIV replication. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 337 (3), 655 - 662. doi:10.1124/jpet.111.179622
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Frédérick, R., Dumont, W., Ooms, F., Aschenbach, L., Van der Schyf, C. J., Castagnoli, N., Wouters, J., & Krief, A. (15 June 2006). Synthesis, structural reassignment, and biological activity of type B MAO inhibitors based on the 5H-indeno[1,2-c]pyridazin-5-one core. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 49 (12), 3743 - 3747. doi:10.1021/jm051091j
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Frédérick, R., Norberg, B., Durant, F., Ooms, F., & Wouters, J. (September 2004). Three 5H-indeno[1,2-c]pyridazin-5-one derivatives, potent type-B monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Acta Crystallographica. Section C, Crystal Structure Communications, 60 (Pt 9), 623 - o626. doi:10.1107/S0108270104014660
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Ooms, F., Frédérick, R., Durant, F., Petzer, J. P., Castagnoli, N., Van der Schyf, C. J., & Wouters, J. (06 January 2003). Rational approaches towards reversible inhibition of type B monoamine oxidase. Design and evaluation of a novel 5H-Indeno[1,2-c]pyridazin-5-one derivative. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 13 (1), 69 - 73. doi:10.1016/s0960-894x(02)00838-7
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Ooms, F., Weber, P., Carrupt, P. A., & Testa, B. (18 July 2002). A simple model to predict blood-brain barrier permeation from 3D molecular fields. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1587 (2-3), 118 - 125. doi:10.1016/s0925-4439(02)00074-1
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Ooms, F., Wouters, J., Oscari, O., Happaerts, T., Bouchard, G., Carrupt, P.-A., Testa, B., & Lambert, D. M. (25 April 2002). Exploration of the pharmacophore of 3-alkyl-5-arylimidazolidinediones as new CB(1) cannabinoid receptor ligands and potential antagonists: synthesis, lipophilicity, affinity, and molecular modeling. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 45 (9), 1748 - 1756. doi:10.1021/jm010896y
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Brühlmann, C., Ooms, F., Carrupt, P.-A., Testa, B., Catto, M., Leonetti, F., Altomare, C., & Carotti, A. (13 September 2001). Coumarins derivatives as dual inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase and monoamine oxidase. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 44 (19), 3195 - 3198. doi:10.1021/jm010894d
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Wouters, J., & Ooms, F. (May 2001). Small molecule crystallography in drug design. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 7 (7), 529 - 545. doi:10.2174/1381612013397889
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Ooms, F. (February 2000). Molecular modeling and computer aided drug design. Examples of their applications in medicinal chemistry. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 7 (2), 141 - 158. doi:10.2174/0929867003375317
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Ooms, F., Delvosal, S., Wouters, J., Durant, F., Dockendolf, G., Van't Land, C., Glass, T., Castagnoli Jr., N., & Van Der Schyf, C. J. (2000). Empirical and molecular modeling study of the pyridinium species RHPP+, an abundant and potentially neurotoxic metabolite of haloperidol. Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 2, (9), 1781 - 1787. doi:10.1039/b002357o
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Ooms, F., Jegham, S., George, P., Durant, F., & Wouters, J. (2000). Molecular interaction between reversible MAO-A inhibitors and the enzyme. Application to aryloxazolidinone, a prototype series. Neurobiology, 8 (1), 81 - 98.
Peer reviewed

Ooms, F., Wouters, J., Collin, S., Durant, F., Jegham, S., & George, P. (02 June 1998). Molecular lipophilicity potential by CLIP, a reliable tool for the description of the 3D distribution of lipophilicity: application to 3-phenyloxazolidin-2-one, a prototype series of reversible MAOA inhibitors. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 8 (11), 1425 - 1430. doi:10.1016/s0960-894x(98)00230-3
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Bousbaa, J., Ooms, F., & Krief, A. (27 October 1997). γ-Siloxy-benzyllithiums: Stereochemistry of the retro-[1,4]-Brook rearrangement. Tetrahedron Letters, 38 (43), 7625 - 7628. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(97)01810-8
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Wouters, J., Ooms, F., & Durant, F. (15 July 1997). 2-oxazolidinone. Acta Crystallographica. Section C, Crystal Structure Communications, 53 (7), 895 - 897. doi:10.1107/S0108270197003752
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Wouters, J., Ooms, F., Jegham, S., Koenig, J. J., George, P., & Durant, F. (1997). Reversible inhibition of type B monoamine oxidase. Theoretical study of model diazo heterocylic compounds. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 32 (9), 721 - 730. doi:10.1016/S0223-5234(97)88914-3
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Ooms, F., Wouters, J., Durant, F., Castagnoli Jr., N., Van't Land, C., Dockendolf, G., Glass, T., & Van Der Schyf, C. J. (1997). Conformational distribution of the potentially neurotoxic metabolite of haloperidol, HPP+, by NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 2, (12), 2627 - 2632. doi:10.1039/a705037b
Peer reviewed

Books

Written in collaboration

Léonard, C., Ooms, F., & Surlemont, B. (2022). Entrepreneurs face à la crise. Au coeur du testing Covid Belge. Barchon, Belgium: L'attitude des Héros.
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Chapters in collective works

Ooms, F., & Pirnay, F. (2024). Pokemón: Ethias’ corporate entrepreneurship initiative. In J. Schmutzler, L. Palacios-Chacón, S. Burvill, ... V. Andonova (Eds.), Teaching Cases on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Unexplored Topics and Contexts. United States: Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781802204537.00020
Editorial reviewed

Ooms, F., & Falize, M. (2016). Le Business Model Canvas. In F. Janssen, Entreprendre-Une introduction à l'entrepreneuriat (2ième édition). Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium: De Boeck Supérieur.
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Reports

External research reports

Dejardin, M., Ooms, F., Vanderstraeten, J., Slabbinck, H., Ismail, R., Branca, E., Delzenne, E., & Phan, T. T. (2024). Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey (GUESSS) : 2023 Belgium National Report "Staying the course in uncertain times". doi:10.63028/10067/2079580151162165141https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/322480

Ooms, F., Vanderstraeten, J., Hendrik, S., & Thanh Phan, T. (2022). Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (GUESSS): 2021 Belgium National Report. Switzerland: Guess. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/267185

Unpublished scientific communications

Scientific congresses and symposiums with international audience

On request

Antony, H., Alâadany, E., Le Petit, M., Collette, F., & Ooms, F. (2024). The Entrepreneurial Lens Of Decision-making And Opportunity Recognition: An Eye-tracking Study On Student Entrepreneurs [Paper presentation]. Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD) 2024, Brussels, Belgium.
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On personal proposal

Ooms, F., Annen, J., Panda, R., Surlemont, B.* , LAUREYS, S.* , TSHIBANDA, L., Meunier Paul, & Jeffrey Pollack*. (15 June 2022). Using the Brain’s Functional Connectivity to Explore Serial Entrepreneurs’ and Managers’ Cognitive Flexibility [Paper presentation]. EURAM2022, Zurich, Switzerland.
Peer reviewed

Ooms, F., & Laureys, S. (08 June 2021). The entrepreneurial Brain [Paper presentation]. Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference BCERC2021.

Scientific conferences in universities or research centers

Ooms, F. (10 January 2022). Neuroentrepreneurship a call from the discipline: nascent evidence from resting-state fMRI [Paper presentation]. Giga CRC group meeting, Liège, Belgium.

Scientific congresses and symposiums with national audience

Ooms, F. (16 November 2021). Décrypter le cerveau entrepreneurial [Paper presentation]. Le Grand Saut, Canada.

Ooms, F., Lerner, D., Pollack, J., & Surlemont, B. (28 October 2021). Beyond Entry: Exploring Entrepreneurs’ Self-Reported ADHD Symptoms in Nascent, Early, and Established Ventures [Paper presentation]. Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day BERD2021, Hasselt, Belgium.

Posters

Le Petit, M., Antony, H., Collette, F., & Ooms, F. (2025). How does entrepreneurial experience shape decision-making and cognitive flexibility? [Poster presentation]. 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Editorial reviewed

Antony, H., Alâadany, E., Le Petit, M., Ooms, F., & Collette, F. (30 May 2024). Decoding entrepreneurial decision-making through eye tracking: Preliminary Results [Poster presentation]. The Annual Conference of Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Brussels, Belgium.
Editorial reviewed

Ooms, F., Collette, F., Laureys, S., & Surlemont, B. (August 2023). Navigating the entrepreneurial mind: the influence of stress and well-being on cognitive flexibility [Poster presentation]. Academy of Management, Boston, United States.

Ooms, F., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (17 June 2023). Intrinsic brain activity in organizational neuroscience [Poster presentation]. Academy Of Management - Organizational Neuroscience, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Peer reviewed

Ooms, F., & Pollack, J. (05 August 2022). Entrepreneur stress and cognitive Flexibility [Poster presentation]. AOM 2022 Seattle, Seattle, United States.

Diverse speeches and writings

Other articles for a general audience

Le Petit, M., Collette, F., & Ooms, F. (2025). La flexibilité façonne les entrepreneurs de demain. La Libre Belgique.

Magnier, L., & Ooms, F. (2023). L’entrepreneuriat : du profit à la planète. La Libre Belgique.

Ooms, F., & Surlemont, B. (2023). Entrepreneurs : un cerveau différent ? Cerveau & Psycho, (159).

Ooms, F., & Surlemont, B. (2022). Pour un entrepreneuriat à impact. La Libre Belgique.

Ooms, F., & Céline, L. (2021). Avoir deux mains droites. Libre Eco.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Ooms, F. (2024). Unlocking the Entrepreneurial Brain: New Perspectives on Cognitive Flexibility [Paper presentation]. Odoo experience 2024, Bruxelles, Belgium.

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