The Biodiversity Moonshot: System Thinking to Co-Create a Biodiversity-Embedded Future for Companies Join us at the Academy of Management Symposium in Boston, where we’ll be…
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I have recently been appointed by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research as the new Italian representative in the “Working party on innovation and…
The European Training Network for Industry Digital Transformation across Innovation Ecosystems, also known as EINST4INE, is a consortium of 7 European academic and non-academic beneficiaries…
I am extremely happy to announce the publication of a new paper, titled “Team boundary-spanning activities and performance of technology transfer organizations: evidence from China”. …
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new study by the European Commission in the Innovation and Growth science area (JRC working paper on Corporate…
I am very pleased to announce our R&D Management Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Intellectual Capital in R&D Management”. This special issue…
How open are firms? Opening up to a collaborative strategy is not a black-and-white issue. As open innovation has many shades, being “open” is not…
I have the great pleasure to announce that Sant’Anna School of Advanced of Pisa has been included in the consortium of the “European Training Network…
Alberto co-edited with Carmelo Cennamo, Giovanni Battista Dagnino and Gianvito Lanzolla, the “California Management Review Summer 2020 Special Issue” dedicated to Managing the Digital Transformation….
Here is a new opportunity for researchers to publish in an internationally renowned journal. Professor Di Minin is the co-guest editor, together with Martin Kenney,…
One of the most exciting aspects of my job as a Professor in Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies is to carry out research with talented…
I have recently published a new research paper for the journal “R&D Management”, together with Antonio Crupi, Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Management…
Alberto is definitely in great company as co-guest editor for a new Industrial and Corporate Change special issue on Platform-dependent Entrepreneurship.
It is finally out. We worked a lot, we insisted with Editors and Reviewers, and we made it. I normally don’t celebrate papers this way….
Alberto’s latest book: “Il gioco degli opposti: storie di innovazione italiana”. A cura di Alberto Di Minin, Cristina Marullo e Andrea Piccaluga. Edizioni EGEA
Call for papers for “Innovation: Organization and Management”. Co-edited with Mattia Bianchi and Gary Pisano, we ask scholars to send us by September 15th 2020…
The Technology Transfer Think Tank is one of the main events aimed at animating discussion on Knowledge and Technology Transfer. Once again Jacobacci & Partners is…
In August 2019 Alberto participated, with some members of his research group, at the Academy of Management conference in Boston, USA. The group was composed…
“The New Silk Road of Innovation: R&D networks, knowledge diffusions, and open innovation” Co Editors Team: Jin CHEN, Tsinghua University Alberto Di Minin, Scuola…
On April 14 and 15, 2018, at the School of Public Policy & Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing took place the “2018 Research &…
Alberto was one of the organizers of the 4th World Open Innovation Conference in San Francisco. The success of this event, attended by hundreds of…
Proposal for a Special Issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer University technology transfer, regional specializations, and local dynamics: Exploring the recipes for successful…
On April 28th, Alberto presented the Chongqing project during the TEDxSantAnna in Pisa. The Sino Italian Innovation Base Camp in Chongqing from Alberto Minin
After 2 years of work, the EU Commission has published a study coordinated by Alberto’s team in Pisa on Open Innovation in ICT. ⇒ Go…
Alberto presented the results of the EURIPIDIS study at the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference in Amsterdam. The conference was organized by Open Innovation Strategy and…
New research on R&D and internationalization dynamics in China and Iran. Alberto’s latest publications focus on key areas of interests for both scholars and managers….
Alberto is the scientific coordinator of the research project How can larger organisations also be innovative organisations? The project submitted by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna from Pisa…
I wrote this piece with Nicola Redi and my student Chiara De Marco. ITA only. It is my first contribution to the work of Action…
I recently had the pleasure to coordinate an interesting debate at the Guido Dorso Center in Avellino. Among the keynotes, Professor Sabino Cassese, former member of…
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…
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The idea of this project started two years ago, on a boat trip with Giovanna Oddo from EPO Patent Academy, in Prague. It continued…
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.
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.
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.
On March 25, Alberto and Dries will be the two keynotes at the Flanders Business School. They will present findings of their research in front…
As China becomes number one in the PCT statistics, Simone and Alberto look at the Chinese market as a source of innovation.
Can we say that social media were the drivers of a second ICT revolution? Apparently so. In this presentation I try to show that there are many lessons that we can draw from previous disruptive changes in the industry, but that companies need to be outliers and define new business models and new business processes to leverage the advantaged offered them by new social medias.
Alberto was in Groningen to celebrate Dries Faems’ professorship.
Dries gave his inaugural lecture in fronts of colleagues, friends and family, and Alberto was part of the warm up band, during an innovation workshop focussed on innovation, inter-firm and intra-firm relationships.
In Barcelona I addressed the audience with a presentation titled WWWWWHOW Social Innovation: Why, When, Who, Where, What & How Social Innovation Matters. I blended together the concepts of Open Innovation and Social Innovation: Open Social Innovation… discussing the cases of Ashoka and Emergency.
Andrea and Alberto travel to Rosora, in the Marche, to meet with Loccioni top management and discuss about their Open Innovation strategy. The project started before the summer with extensive interviews in Loccioni, and focused on internal technology transfer and business development.
Today, Simone Corsi, discusses his dissertation focused on Reverse Innovation.
Alberto is presenting a paper on Ansaldo Energia. Together with a group of scholars from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Ansaldo developed an interactive tool to engage key customers the innovation practice of the company.
As growing interdependence of global innovation is rising (and China is increasingly at the center), this workshop brings together people from academia to discuss and…
on Intellectual Property Management In Search of New Practices, Strategies, and Business Models The purpose of this special issue is to generate a collection of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Innovation & Football: what is behind the success of Udinese Calcio? “The deadliest machine on Serie A fields” La Repubblica “Tonight against Juventus, Udinese just…
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Alberto is the winner of the second prize in the 2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
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…