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#Fuoriclasse: My blog on Sole24Ore kicks off with Commissioner Quinn
Alberto's blog #Fuoriclasse is published on Sole24Ore Nova and is dedicated to portrait stories of exceptional individuals. It is an opportunity to discuss about innovation, science & technology policy, and new business models.
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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 appropriation of innovation. I focus on open innovation and new business models.
I collaborate with Nòva - Sole24Ore and I serve as the Italian Representative in the SME, Access to Risk Finance Horizon 2020 Program Committee.
What's going on
Wiki-Endorsing thesis: how Italy can shape the future of education
Antonello Cherubini, a PhD student in Engineering at Sant'Anna, approached me with a nice idea, on how to make good use of time spent preparing dissertations/senior papers.. We all know Wikipedia, right? I am glad to host Antonello's piece.
#Fuoriclasse: My blog on Sole24Ore kicks off with Commissioner Quinn
Tomorrow (Sunday April 6th) I will be starting my new blog on the Sole24Ore Nova website.
The blog is titled #Fuoriclasse (Outliers) and it is going to be dedicated to portrait stories of exceptional individuals who managed to do great things through their work. It will give me an opportunity to discuss about innovation, science & technology policy, and other topics I find interesting.
The first entry on my blog is going to be an interview with the EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn.
Calabria Innova!!
The presentation I shared today with the audience of Calabria Innova, can be found here.
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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.
By Fabrizio Landi
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.
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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