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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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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
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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.
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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.
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Thank you for your feedback!
I really appreciate the time you spent completing this survey. My goal is to get my teaching always better, and all the comments and you provided me are very relevant for improving. A nice aspect of my job is that I get to know a lot of people, and my students are indeed among the most intriguing community I am lucky to get in touch with… So don’t disappear after taking my class! I am on facebook/linked-in and this website is constantly updated. Good Luck with everything. Alberto Di Minin
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.
Valanga Azzurra at the Intel Business Challenge (7)
The finalists of the European Round of the Intel Business Challenge have been announced. A Great result for Italy. 8 of the 23 finalists admitted to the selection round in Irland are Italian teams, with iRC and WIB in 2nd and 3rd place!
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 [...]
Master MaIn: Create your StartUp to pass my exam
Febr. 5th is Day 1 for my new class together with Andrea Tenucci and Andrea Paraboschi. We will accompany a very international class of master students through a series of lectures and exercise that will help them better understand what is a start-up company, and actually how to start one.
Andrea Paraboschi and Alberto start a new class in Trento
February – May 2013. Within the partnership between Sant’Anna and University of Trento and the EIT ICT Labs initiative, Alberto, Andrea Piccaluga, with the fantastic support of Andrea Paraboschi (DJ by night and PhD student by day), have started a new course for the EIT ICT Master students. On February the 21st Alberto and Andrea traveled to Trento for their first class, and they met with a variegated and international group of students. The course focuses on business development and features a business game simulation created in collaboration with Gian Paolo Balboni (Telecom Italia). [...]
Getting Ready for some California Time
Alberto and Simone have organized a study & business tour for a group of Italian entrepreneurs to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The group will stop by for lectures at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. They will be hosted by the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco and they will have meetings at City Hall. Other stops feature the Culinary Institute of America, LinkedIn, Plug&Play, Skydeck, Google, Idean... etc etc
Alberto and Simone codeveloped this initiative with the young entrepreneurs of Confindustria Toscana, as a sort of continuation of the lecture series "Change Agents", which was an interesting experiment. "The idea was to mix theory and practice, to provoke new thinking and allow these young entrepreneurs to become actors of innovation and new investment within their companies", says Alberto. "I was very happy to read Giacomo Gellini's interview on La Nazione, as he truly represented with his words the spirit of what I am trying to do with companies, in my executive education programs".