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Sfide: Challenge Prizes all’Italiana
The Minister of Research and Education, Maria Chiara Carrozza, announced that she will promote a new platform dedicated to challenge prizes to stimulate the talent and creativity of Italians towards the big problems and opportunities of today's society.
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Visit to China Nov 14th – 19th
Just coming home from the official trip of Minister Maria Chiara Carrozza to China. We traveled to Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, meeting a vibrant community of Italians, doing business, cultivating arts, studying and researching in this country. I was impressed by their enthusiasm and positive attitude towards their perspectives. During talks with high level officials of the Chinese Government, research centers and universities we emphasized the priority to increase scientific collaborations between China and Italy.
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Presented at the AOM2013: CMR Special issue on IP Strategic Management
On August 10th, the Special Issue Alberto and Dries worked on for almost two years will be presented in the course of a PDW organized at the Academy of Management in Orlando, Florida.
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Who is Alberto
Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Istituto di Management - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, Visiting Professor at the Twente University in The Netherlands. My research and teaching deals with the appropriability of innovation. I focus on open innovation and new business models.
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Visit to China Nov 14th – 19th
Just coming home from the official trip of Minister Maria Chiara Carrozza to China. We traveled to Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, meeting a vibrant community of Italians, doing business, cultivating arts, studying and researching in this country. I was impressed by their enthusiasm and positive attitude towards future perspectives. During talks with high level officials of the Chinese Government, research centers and universities we emphasized the priority to increase scientific collaborations between China and Italy.
Presented at the AOM2013: CMR Special issue on IP Strategic Management
The idea of this project started two years ago, on a boat trip with Giovanna Oddo from EPO Patent Academy, in Prague. It continued through the collaboration with Dries Faems. And now we can proudly say that we have something available to show to everyone. The CMR special issue on IP Strategic Management is out, and it has been officially unveiled at the Academy of Management, during a special PDW dedicated to the presentation of the issue. Many authors were present, and CMR distributed complementary copies of the special issue. The PDW was overbooked, here below you can find [...]
Innovation Policy and Smart Cities
This is the presentation (in Italian) that Andrea Paraboschi (SSSA) and I shared with the Green City Energy conference in Pisa. We illustrated the main guidelines of Minister Maria Chiara Carrozza's agenda.
We discussed about the need to be focused, to be inclusive and to challenge Italian's creativity and talent.
Sfide: Challenge Prizes all’Italiana
Rome, June 25th: the Minister of Research and Education, Maria Chiara Carrozza, announced today that she will promote a new platform dedicated to challenge prizes to stimulate the talent and creativity of Italians towards the big problems and opportunities of today’s society. This is a new way to stimulate the demand side of innovation, and engaging users, researchers, students, real talents into challenging endeavors. Italy will be hosting in 2015 the EXPO in Milan, and the idea is to target such prestigious venue to showcase the world what Italian creativity is able to lead to if properly engaged. Ministro Carrozza [...]
The Sky is Blue over Dublin! Italian S&T dominates Intel Buz Challenge (7)
Italian Science and Technology was recognized at the finals of Intel Business Challenge 2013.
SEM+ a spin-off company of IIT and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna got the first prize as the most european innovative start-up of the year.
Join our DBA Program!
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Grenoble Ecole de Management joined forces to offer a new exciting program, targeting managers, policy makers, executives at foundations/NPO, entrepreneurs all over Europe.
Ideal candidates are European professionals, from a wide variety of career backgrounds. These may include: management, sciences, humanities and technical and engineering fields. Typically participants have attained a high level of professional achievement and are likely to be in their thirties or forties.
Alberto Chairing a Session at an EPO/OECD Conference
Munich, May 6th. Alberto was responsible for the session titled "How Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can fuel open science and open innovation". When asked what was a very important and neglected aspect in technology transfer, Alberto said "people, people, people!" It is very important to consider the professionalism and experience of researchers and managers involved in the process.
User Led Innovation at the European Festival in Florence
I had the opportunity to discuss about User Innovation in an unconventional-not-strictly-academic context during an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Florence in partnership with Confindustria, at the European Festival in Florence
BlaBlaCar featured in Open for Innovation
BlaBlaCar is a very good example of a social platform turning into a great innovation, where users play a big role in shaping the success of the offering. Postoinauto.it, started by Olivier Bremer in 2009, happened to be at the right place at the right time, when the main investor in BlaBlaCar (Accel Partner) was hunting for companies to support the international expansion of the French company. Bremer was at the time managing the largest carsharing community in Italy at the time. “I got lucky” said to us Oliver, who is currently Country Manager for Italy… but luck is obviously only part of the story.
Strategic Agility: the Case of Udinese Calcio accepted on EMJ
A new paper by Alberto and Andrea has been accepted for publication by the European Management Journal. This is the result of a nice collaboration with Federico Frattini, Guido Bortoluzzi and Mattia Bianchi. A lot of fun writing this paper and working on such a unique case study.
Loccioni Business Game: Final lecture for Open Innovation Module
Andrea and I close our lectures for the joint class of Master MAINS and Master MAIN students here in Pisa with a business game. 5 groups of students were presented with some information about Loccioni, a very innovative company in the Marche region, going through an interesting phase of transformation of its R&D and innovation activities.
Surviving the PhD – Edition 2013
Surviving the Phd™ 2013 Edition Instructor: Alberto Di Minin www.diminin.it At Scuola Sant’Anna, Doctoral Students in Management receive a special treatment. Surviving is a course I have designed whose goal is to introduce first years students to the PhD life, giving them an idea about what it takes to go through the program, and at the same time provide them with some methods, in a very interactive and colloquial way.
Open for Innovation: featuring Fantini Mosaici
Open for Innovation, our biweekly column on Affari & Finanza "La Repubblica" is back, profiling interesting companies, and linking them with a management theory. Monday we discussed about Fantini Mosaici.
Introducing Appropriability Advantage
During a presentation in the course of a seminar dedicated to Open Innovation, organized by the Flanders Business School, I introduced the concept of Appropriability Advantage.
California Study Tour: Day by day updates
Earlier in March, Simone Corsi and I accompanied a group of entrepreneurs from Confindustria Toscana Giovani, in a study tour around the San Francisco Bay Area. We organized this tour to complete the in-class executive training program titled Change Agents that was coordinated last year by the Istituto di Management. During an intense (very intense) week, we had the opportunity to get to know what’s going on in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: where people and companies consider the current downturn something which belongs to the past, and are running very fast towards years of incredible expansion. Here is a detailed [...]