On Friday May 4, 40 students from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, enrolled in the Masters in Innovation & Service Engineering (MAINS) and Management of Innovation (MAIN),…

Together with Andrea Piccaluga (Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) and Alvise Bonivento (Intesa San Paolo) I teach the new course High-Tech Business Venturing. The…

Tuscan Start-Up Academy: Piccaluga & Di Minin new edition of the course at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna to connect Science & Technology with Business

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.

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™ 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.

Febr. 5th is Day 1 for my new class together with Andrea Tenucci and Andrea Paraboschi. We will accompany a very international class of master students through a series of lectures and exercise that will help them better understand what is a start-up company, and actually how to start one.

February – May 2013. Within the partnership between Sant’Anna and University of Trento and the EIT ICT Labs initiative, Alberto, Andrea Piccaluga, with the fantastic…

February 13th: Every good story has an ending (or actually: “Ogni bel ballo stufa…”).
Last lecture for Skills & Tools 2013, with guest speakers, student presentations, and final goodbyes in Aula Magna.
Eight groups present their business models which they developed during the course. In certain case we have brand new ideas, in others an attempt to define a commercialization strategy for a project developed in the labs in Pisa and Pontedera.
How many of these presentations one day will turn into real companies? Definitely too early to say. The goal is to turn them into good evaluations! Nicola Redi, from TTVenture is the chair of the judging committee which helps Andrea and Alberto with comments and suggestions.

The final act of Master MAINS A.Y. 2011/12 is taking place at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. 18 students, are back today in Aula Magna and present the result of their work in front of the faculty, academic and corporate advisors. Companies represented: Ansaldo Energia, CDC Point, Coop Italia, ENEL, Esaote, Finmeccanica, Hitachi Data System, IBM Italia, Intesa Sanpaolo, Selex-Elsag, SIA, Telecom Italia, Telespazio, Univergomma.

We are kicking off the 2012-13 edition of Master MAINS, with the interviews of almost 60 potential candidates.

Looking back at 6 years of teaching IP Management with the FHINK International Master in Business Engineering.

In the beautiful setting of the Sharjah campus, Khalifa University, Andrea and Alberto are teaching about technology management, and appropriability of Innovation in the Emirates.
A nice class of 25 phd engineering students in the field will hear from us about how to turn the result of their work into business opportunities, and how to interact with colleagues working in management. The teaching program is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to introduce students around the world to Research in Italy.

  Sales and Marketing manager from all over the world met in Viareggio for the 10th edition of the Knauf College. Managers took off for…

4 Teams, 4 projects One day to prepare a presentation to impress very demanding Judges. The teams formed by managers, entrepreneurs and university students developed…

I am starting a series, to let you know what happened with my former students. We start with Antonio Lugarà, who passed by Pisa a…

Toscana Promozione is sending to SMAU 20 companies from Tuscany. In order to prepare entrepreneurs and managers to  face potential partners and customers in Milan,…

In a three sessions workshop, we discussed with the Direttivo Confidustria Toscana Giovani, how these young entrepreneurs could become “Changing Agents” in their own companies. The idea of the series of meeting started after a seminar in Florence dedicated to Open Innovation.

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…

    A full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation: Aula Magna Storica Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, on May the 7th The event…

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