-
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. -
#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.
What's going on
SME Innovation Instrument – Great Italian participation to Phase 1
As the Italian Delegate on the Program Committee for SMEs and Access to Risk Finance, I have been looking quite closely the early results of one of the newest instruments introduced by the EU Commission in Horizon 2020. This is the SME Innovation Instrument.
High Level Group on Innovation Policy Management
During 2014 I took part to the works of the High Level Group on Innovation Policy Management. This group of experts from Academia, Industry and Government worked on the definition of a set of recommendations for the European Innovation Ecosystem. The group met three times, in Dublin, in Amsterdam and in Rome, and it is due to produce the final report in the course of the month of August to the Italian Presidency of the European Council.
Pisa Research lands in Stuttgart for R&D Management Conference
In the course of the yearly R&D Management conference in Stuttgart, the Sant’Anna team was present with a full range of papers. Next year conference will be in Pisa. Here is the full list of the papers I coauthored and presented in Germany: Paraboschi, A., Di Minin, A., & Piccaluga, A. (2014). Innovation in Sports. Bagheri, Kamran, Di Minin, A., Paraboschi, A., & Piccaluga, A. (2014). Platform leaders to provide Patent Shelter. Casprini, Elena, Di Minin, A., & Marullo, C. (2014). Start ups survival: do business models matter? Di Minin, A., Marullo, C., & Piccaluga, A. (2014). Born Open? [...]
A Two pages special on Sole 24 Ore on Technology Valorization
Italian public universities should emphasize the need to accompany researchers to the market, rather than to focus on the interfaces to transfer technology, through patents and licensing. This is the key message of the special on technology transfer, that was published by Sole 24 Ore Nòva, on Sunday May the 4th. I had quite some good time showing the data compiled and analyzed by NetVal to international experts and friends. I will publish the complete interviews (in Italian… but Google Translate makes a good job…) on my #Fuoriclasse blog for Nòva. The first interview (already online) is with Henry Chesbrough. [...]
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.
Come and Work with us!!
Apply for a Ph.D. in Management
Deadline for the next fellowship program is May 13th 2014
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.
