EINST4INE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Innovation Management
Agnieszka Radziwon is Assistant Professor of Innovation Management, and works both at Aarhus University and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). Her expertise is in innovation and technology management.
As a scholar, Agnieszka is looking into a broader perspective of inter-organisational collaboration in various types of (eco)systems. She is interested in the ways how knowledge is transferred across organisations, the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation, and how institutions codify ideas and practices.
For over a decade before joining academia, Agnieszka lived in multiple EU countries while working both for the private sector and non-governmental organisations. She has experience in (project) management of externally-funded projects of various types.
Research interests: (Open) innovation management, business and innovation ecosystems, inter-organisational collaboration, open standards, business models, emerging technologies
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Istituto
Alberto Di Minin is a Professor at the Istituto di Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and a Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE, U.C. Berkeley). Alberto's research deals with the appropriability of innovation: Open Innovation, new business models, technology transfer, Intellectual Property and R&D management.
In 2006 he got his PhD with a dissertation on the internalisation of R&D from the Department of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley. He has received a MS in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta and a BA in Economics from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Alberto is the Director of the Galileo Galilei Institute at the Chongqing University. He is the Director of the Master MIND - Management and Innovation Design.
Research interests: Innovation management, entrepreneurship
Job Titles:
- Editor - in - Chief of the International Journal of Innovation
Job Titles:
- Director of the Institute of Management
Andrea Piccaluga is the Director of the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Professor of Innovation Management, and Vice-President of Netval, the Italian network of University Technology Transfer Offices. He holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and a Master in Technology and Innovation Management from University of Sussex, Brighton.
Anne-Laure Mention is a Professor and the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT University. She is the academic lead of the OpenInnoTrain RISE and of the EINST4INE ETN project, a regular keynote speaker at academic and industry conferences, and co-founding editor of open access Journal of Innovation Management. She has several visiting positions in Europe and Asia, and for 7 years led a team of 20+ researchers in innovation economics and management in Europe.
Argyro Almpanopoulou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT where she manages the Digital Disruption of Industry (DDI) project.
Argyro's research is focused on the factors and processes that shape ecosystem emergence. She has a particular interest in the ways ecosystems are organised to create relevant knowledge and solutions for resolving societal challenges, especially in sectors like energy and healthcare.
Argyro has published in top-tier academic outlets such as Research Policy, Technovation, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Biomedical Robotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Team
Arianna Menciassi is a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and team leader of the ‘Surgical Robotics & Allied Technologies' Area at the BioRobotics Institute. She is the Coordinator of the PhD in Biorobotics.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Scuola Superiore Sant
- Research Outcomes
Calogero Oddo is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa and head of the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory at The BioRobotics Institute, coordinating a team of around 20 people.
Research interests: Social robotics, biomedical robotics
Constanze Leeb is from Austria. She studied Physics and Sociology for her bachelor degree at the University of Vienna in Austria.
Following this, she studied two master's degrees in Physics and Cognitive Science. She was able to spend some time during her studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She was involved in detector research and development at the Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics and wrote her master thesis in Physics on characterization measurements of CdZnTe detectors.
Further, she worked on a social data science project with the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, looking at the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in online forums during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During her time at the University of Ljubljana, she analyzed well-being questionnaires related to an experiment that recorded HRV data during music listening and was performed at the Medical Faculty. Constanze wrote her master thesis in Cognitive Science in collaboration with the Social Mind and Body Lab at the Central European University. She looked at synchronization patterns between partners when they try to coordinate auditory-motor rhythms under different auditory feedback conditions.
Having focused and worked in various research areas, she has always been excited when she was able to integrate knowledge from different disciplines, which is why she is excited to embark on this new fascinating research topic with EINST4INE at the University of Cambridge.
Cristina Alaimo is Assistant Professor (Research) in Digital Economy and Society at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. She holds a PhD in Management, Information Systems and Innovation from LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Cristina's research focuses on the innovation brought about by data-based services and their consequences for organisations and society.
Her work has been published in journals such as Organization Studies, The Information Society, Journal of Information Technology and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Research interests: Digital business transformation, digital open innovation, data-driven innovation
Cristina Marullo is Assistant Professor of Innovation Management
at the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Her research focuses on technology and innovation management, with a special emphasis on performance determinants and key managerial challenges of collaborative R&D and innovation.
Her recent publications have appeared in journals such as R&D Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. Cristina coordinates the activities of the Institute of Management within ARTES 4.0 - Industry 4.0 Competence Center on Advanced Robotics and Enabling Digital Technologies & Systems.
Research interests: Technology, innovation management, entrepreneurship
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart
Ferran Giones is Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Deputy Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science. He received the BBA & MBA from ESADE Business School, and PhD from La Salle - Ramon Llull University, both in Barcelona, Spain. Before joining academia, he worked in strategy consulting and in international project management.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Entrepreneurship
Henri Hakala is a Professor of Entrepreneurship in the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT.
His research has been published in high quality journals of entrepreneurship (Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics ), top journals of marketing (Industrial Marketing Management and Marketing Theory) and general management (Journal of Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Long Range Planning).
Research interests: Entrepreneurship, small business, business strategy, entrepreneurial ecosystems, circular economy, sustainability
Job Titles:
- Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
- Research Outcomes
Henry Chesbrough is Educational Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at Berkeley Haas.
He is the founder of the Open Innovation Paradigm and one of the most impactful academics in the last 15 years. His work has transformed modern industrial practices in innovation worldwide. He founded the World Open Innovation Conference (which has run annual meetings since 2014).
In 2019 he hosted a PhD development workshop at LUISS in 2019 and he runs weekly open innovation doctoral research seminars at UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business.
Research interests: Open innovation, business model innovation service innovation
Jessica Fishburn is EINST4INE's ESR13, performing research on innovation ecosystem orchestration mechanisms at LUT University supervised by Paavo Ritala & Argyro Almpanopoulou.
Jess has a strong academic background, completing both her Bachelors in Business and Master of Research in Sustainable Futures at the University of Exeter, Cornwall. She graduated in the top 10% of her class and is the recipient of two awards in Social Action and Research Collaboration during her studies.
When beginning higher education, Jess co-founded and became President of a Women in Business society, responsible for leading the team in organising workshops and events to promote confidence and opportunites for young professionals. Alongside this, she has worked for a social enterprise that trains and supports entrepreneurs to innovate social and environmental challenges in their local economy through purpose-led businesses. Jess has also worked on various projects providing consultancy and freelance support to start-ups and research projects seeking to address business and environmental challenges.
In the past year, whilst completing her Masters, she has being supporting the production of a Circular Ecoonomy Handbook with Dr Alexander, Professor Pascucci, and Professor Charnley which she looks forward to being published early next year and has been engaged with facilitating the innovation mananagment research and practice community working as a Coordinator for the International Society for Professional Innovation Management.
Job Titles:
- Research Outcomes
- Vice Chancellor 's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Justyna Dabrowska is a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University. Her main research focus is the organisation and management of technology and innovation, more specifically on open and collaborative innovation in various contexts and levels of analysis (from micro- to meta-level). She's interested in organisational reinvention and strategic renewal in the digital era, collaboration between corporates and start-ups, developing innovation capabilities, business model innovation, tools to support decision-making, the role of emerging technologies, and innovation ecosystems.
Justyna has a wide experience in managing large international research projects on open innovation, education, business acceleration, sustainability and digital transformation. She was a project manager of OI-Net, a large pan-European initiative on open innovation consisting of over 50 partners (academia, industry, consulting) from more than 30 countries. Prior to academia, she worked in European headquarters in automotive and marketing industries in strategic functions.
Research interests: Open innovation and value co-creation, strategic renewal, new forms of organising, corporate-start-up collaboration, cross-industry innovation, digital transformation, emerging technologies
Letizia Mortara is a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is a recognised expert in technology intelligence and open innovation and Associate Editor for the R&D Management journal.
Her specific research interests include technology intelligence (i.e. activity set-up in order to keep abreast with the latest developments in technology) open innovation, and the advent of digital fabrication technologies in manufacturing (e.g. 3D printing) and their implications for business.
Research interests: Innovation and technology management, open innovation, technology intelligence and strategic tools, manufacturing
Job Titles:
- Professor of Organisation Studies at Libera Università Internazionale
Luca Giustiniano is a Professor of Organisation Studies at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, and the Director of CLIO - Center for Research on Leadership, Innovation and Organisation.
Research interests: Crowd-based organising, organisation design, organisational metaphors, organisational paradox
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Management of Innovation at Libera Università Internazionale
- Research Outcomes
- Senior Member
Maria Isabella Leone is Associate Professor of Management of Innovation at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, where she is also the Academic Coordinator of all the MBA Programs of Luiss Business School and PhD Faculty Member of the PhD Program in Management.
Isabella is a senior member of several other national and international research projects and collaborates with various corporates (e.g. LEONARDO, ENEL) and national bodies (e.g. UIBM, Italian Patent and Trademark Office).
Her research focuses on the strategic management and policy of/for intellectual property rights, patent and trademark licensing and, in general, open innovation practices. She has published on these topics in leading international journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, R&D Management Journal and Industrial and Corporate Change, and has been awarded for her research in the field of innovation management.
Research interests: Innovation, knowledge management and R&D, intellectual property, open innovation licensing, patents
Job Titles:
- Professor of Strategy
- Research Outcomes
Paavo Ritala is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation in the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT. His main research themes include collaborative innovation, digital strategy, ecosystems and platforms, coopetition, and sustainable value creation.
Paavo's research has been published in journals such as Journal of Management, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, Industrial and Corporate Change, and California Management Review.
He's closely involved with business practice through company-funded research projects, executive and professional education programs, and in speaker and advisory roles. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the R&D Management Journal and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Research interests: Strategy, innovation, platforms, ecosystems, digital transformation
Job Titles:
- Founder of the Multi Business Model Innovation Approach
Peter Lindgren is a Professorship in Multi Business Model and Technology Innovation at Aarhus University and a member of the university's research committee. He is also Vice President of CTIF Global Capsule.
Peter is the founder of the Multi Business Model Innovation Approach and co-founder of five start-up businesses including TheBeeBusiness, The Digi Business and VDMbee.
Research interests: Multi business model innovation, multi business model innovation brains
Job Titles:
- Research Outcomes
- Researcher of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Stuttgart
Petra Nylund is a researcher of strategy and innovation at the University of Stuttgart. She has created strategies as a business consultant and corporate development manager in the telecoms industry of Africa, Latin America, and Europe.
Petra is enthusiastic about the development of innovation platforms and ecosystems, and is an expert in the econometric analysis of panel data. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Technovation, The Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Knowledge Management.
Research interests: Strategy, innovation
Job Titles:
- Director of Research
- Research Outcomes
Rob Phaal is a Director of Research within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and conducts research in the area of Strategic Technology and Innovation Management (STIM). He is a recognised leader in
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at Aarhus University
- Research Outcomes
Sladjana Nørskov is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University. Her research investigates how individuals create alternative organisational structures to bureaucratic structures, and how these alternative structures are used to promote innovation, creativity and growth. She is interested in how individuals collaborate to solve problems and innovate. Furthermore, she explores the role that machines, such as social robots, play in problem-solving and creative collaborations with humans.
Research interests: Social robotics, organisational behaviour, innovation management
Syed Ali Hassan has completed his graduation in Software engineering from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (Pakistan) and completed post-graduation in I.T. Convergence Engineering from Kumoh National Institute of Technology (South Korea).
He has been awarded a fully-funded Professor Scholarship in wens lab South Korea. He has a work experience of more than 4 years and has Developed Several AR/VR/MR and deep learning-based applications. His latest projects are revolving around computer vision and robotics.
Syed Ali Hassan is currently doing his PhD at the Bio robotics institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy) as EINST4INE ESR2.
Research interests: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Robotics
Valentina Cucino is Postdoctoral Scholar at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. She is also a Research Fellow at LISA LAB, a research centre on entrepreneurship and innovative start-ups. She has a PhD in Management Innovation, Sustainability and Healthcare from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Valentina's research interests are mainly related to innovation management, entrepreneurship and the technology transfer process with a focus on university-industry dynamics. She lectures in high tech entrepreneurship and business model courses. She has also supported several aspiring entrepreneur researchers in developing business ideas.
Research interests: Innovation, entrepreneurship