Celebrating Borellino's Bachelor Party
Rome 25 May: I am in Rome celebrating Andrea’s Bachelor Party.
Andrea Borelli, my friend since… half a life ago is getting married in a couple of weeks.
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Innovation à la Continuum
May 2012. Continuum Innovation featured this week in Open for Innovation (La Repubblica, Affari & Finanza). In this brief article we discuss about Continuum Innovation,…
Giglio.com, from local to global: how to reinvent a market
According to Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) people are more willing to buy specific categories of goods on the internet, first of all books. And thus…
Trento makes hitech school
Real recipe to make result is to look far in the time. Richard Florida, American economist, says that the recipe of innovation is made of…
Melinda: when union makes strenght
“Small is awful”. It’s what you can say in those economic areas where there is a strong need of certificated quality, advanced technology, well known…
Vibram: when the supplier becomes a trademark
After a long history of component of technical shoes supplier, Vibram created in 2005 FiveFingers, launghing the barefoot running trend. A component supplier has 2…
Esaote, innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
One of the biggest challenges in our time is to bring a good life style the largest group of people, including the ones that cannot…
TRE: When spin-off is stronger than University
Henry Etzkowitz teorized the triple helix model: when the State create conditions and rules, if University develops and is able to transfer its research, and…
M31, the tecnologic incubator making its success on two Atlantic sides
It’s not common to see two successing people, a university professor and a high level manager, leaving their work to become enterpreneurs. This is the…
Gelesis and the death valley of startups
According to Geffrey Moore “Death Valley” theory, every hi-tech startup must, at a certain time of its life, go across a period in which greatest…
Udinese: when profit makes goals
Udinese is on the top of the Italian soccer championship, but it’s not only soccer we are talking about. According to Franco Soldati, it’s not…
Edra, open innovation by design
Created in 1987, Edra has been, in the last few years, aknowledge to be one of the most innovative enterprises, nationally and internationally, thus entering…
Eurotech dilemma: when today is success, tomorrow is the greatest risk
That moment in which things are going very good, in an enterprise, is called innovator’s dilemma. In fact innovating at this time is a great…
Loccioni: when enterprise is hitech the enviroment grows
You will be probably surprised to find between many multinationa enterprises, in the Italian best place to work classification, a small industry from Marche. Enrico…
Alberto Back in Twente
During the month of September, I will be visiting The OOHR Dept. of the University of Twente, in The Netherlands. I am teaching a class…
Open Innovation at the Academy of Management
On August 15th (Ferragosto in Italy).. and to be precise at 8am in a hot morning in Texas.. Alberto organized a very well attended symposium…
Innovation in Necessary.. at least in Piemonte. But Why so?
On July the 8th, Alberto addressed the Giovani di Confindustria Piemonte, during their annual meeting in Stresa. What were the results of a full day…
What does it take to Speak the IP Language?
Teaching and doing research on IP requires a triangulation between management, science&technology, law. This dialogue across disciplines is a must for a deeper understanding of…
On Monday June 13th Alberto and Henry Chesbrough at the Open Innovation Tour in Milan.
The Istituto di Management – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna has contributed to two books presented in the course of the morning event of the International Open…
Safe Nests in Global Nets landed on JIBS!
Safe Nests in Global Nets landed on JIBS! Alberto and Mattia Bianchi on the Journal of International Business Studies: the completion of a 4.5 years…
Digital Economy Forum
On May 12th, I have taken part to the Digital Economy Forum in Venice I moderated a panel on e-commerce, starting from questions I was…
Join me for a full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation
A full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation: Aula Magna Storica Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, on May the 7th The event…
How "Open" is Innovation in The Netherlands?
March 10th, 2011: I am one of the keynote speakers at the workshop “Open Innovation for Global Enterprises” organized by the University of Twente, in…
My personal way to celebrate Italy's 150th with Bill Emmott
In 2011 we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the unified country in a bizarre and tense atmosphere. It has been argued that Italy is…
February: Alberto Lecturing in Tehran
..An intriguing country, stimulating conversations on Open Innovation and the transition from isolated research to technology hubs.
New Pirates in Silicon Valley!
I have visited Pier 38, one of the tech incubators in San Francisco, this is the piece that I wrote (ITA only..) for Innov’Azione on…
Innovation & Football: what is behind the success of Udinese Calcio?
Innovation & Football: what is behind the success of Udinese Calcio? “The deadliest machine on Serie A fields” La Repubblica “Tonight against Juventus, Udinese just…
Milan, Jan. 26th: Technology & New Products at KITES
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
Milan, Jan. 26th: Technology & New Products at KITES
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
Florence, Jan 24th: Internet Better Business
I introduced and tried to apply the concept of Absorptive Capacity in front of a quite diverse audience of entrepreneurs in Florence. Take a look…
Introducing Fondazione Ricerca & Imprenditorialità in San Francisco and Chongqing
October 23rd – November 7th A little trip around the World. Coverage of the trip: San Francisco – Nov. 1st: Presentation of…
Barbaric Ideas
Innovation Management met Good Literature On October 2nd I interviewed two of my favorite authors: Alessandro Baricco Edoardo Nesi Baricco and Nesi are the authors…
A look at R&D investment strategies of Chinese companies in Europe
My first paper with Dr. Jieyin Zhang explores a relatively new phenomenon on Review of Policy Research We present various discussion points on the research…
Does Open Innovation Work in a Downturn?
Our study of Open Innovation in the Centro Ricerche FIAT has appeared on the Spring Issue of the California Management Review In a recent contribution…
Global Entrepreneurship Week in Italy
Through the generous support of various partners, and after the success of the event organize last year in Florence… on November 16th 2009 we inaugurated…
My Book came out!!
It is in Italian, and you will find many of the ideas I discuss in my dissertation. Take a look at it, buy it, own…
Global Entrepreneurship Week
On November the 20th 2008, entrepreneurs managers, banks and universities discussed together with enthusiasm about the power of entrepreneurship to create value for our economy….
Innovation in Global Industries
Presented to the public in Washington D.C. the book edited by Jeffrey Macher and David Mowery. Alberto co-authored Chapter 3 on the Semiconductor Industry READ…
OPEN: (Italian) Business Models for Innovation
On March the 18th 2008 Henry Chesbrough, Prof Riccardo Varaldo and Alberto have presented to the public the Italian edition of “Open Business Models”. We…
2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
Alberto is the winner of the second prize in the 2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
Do you Speak the IP Language?
I am teaching Executive and MBA Short Courses on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property. Get in touch with me for more info
Is your R&D Lab ready for Open Innovation?
I am investigating how Research and Development Labs are changing the organization and management of their Human Resources, as new practices of Open Innovation become…
Who is Alberto
Associate 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.
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