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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. My research and teaching deals with the appropriability of innovation. I focus on open innovation and new business models.
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Talent Italy: 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.
What's going on
Alberto Bombassei: a dialogue on innovation
Alberto Di Minin interviews Alberto Bombassei, President of Brembo S.P.A. during the opening ceremony of Master MAINS, January 13th. The result is a dialogue on innovation, Kilometro Rosso and the history of Brembo.
Talent Italy: Challenge Prizes all’Italiana
The platform Talent Italy www.talentitaly.it is online.
The first challenge prize is focused on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). To the best course developed by a researcher, teacher, start-up 100K EUR.
How to stimulate innovation processes at SMEs through Credit facilities and cooperation with Universities and Research Centers
In the last few months I have been involved in a project to provide extra credit facilities to SMEs if and only if the specific SME will have been using Universities and independent Research Centers to solve the company needs in term of process and/or product innovations.
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In Dublin for the High Level Group on Innovation Policy
On December the 12th I travelled to Ireland to attend the first meeting of the second round of the High Level Group on Innovation Policy and Management. This group was started as a result of a recommendation of the Polish Presidency of the European Council back in May 2013. As it defined the guidelines for a new European innovation ecosystem, the group is now interested in identifying actionable recommendations to deliver to the Italian presidency during the 2014 summer. I got to meet very interesting practitioners and policy makers, coming from various member states, OECD and the EU Commission, [...]
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.
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.