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Course details The course “China Issues”, of 2 credits, addressed to the students of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, kicked off in Pisa last month…
Throughout over 10 years at Sant’Anna, I have supervised approximately 30 MS Dissertations. I describe them here. This page is designed to inspire my future…
I am very glad to announce that in collaboration with Unione Industriali Pisana and ARTES 4.0 together with a team of talented Professors I am…
Dear all, I am delighted to share more information about our ArtIST “Il Bello” Pisa Summer School to take place in Pisa on 12-17 September…
I will be hosting a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) titled “Research in R&D Management: Past Experiences and Future Trends” at the upcoming AOM Annual Meeting…
I am delighted to share the “Save the date” of the next ArtIST Summer School, an exciting event of the Erasmus+ Project I have been…
Let me point your attention to this call for tenure track Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Universitario Tipo B) at Scuola Sant’Anna, available at this LINK The…
Change affects everyone. In recent months, entrepreneurs and managers of small and large companies find themselves reflecting on which are the main development levers of…
It is with great pleasure that I share the news that my publication titled “The digital transformation of SMEs – a new knowledge broker called…
It is with great pleasure that I share my latest publication, a JRC Policy Insights for the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (JRC),…
50 years and counting. 50+ years of great history with R&D Management. And hopefully 50+ even greater years ahead! Where are we coming from, what…
My new book is now available! Titled “La buona impresa”, it is written together with Valentina Cucino, Luca Ferrucci and Andrea Piccaluga and published by…
The 2021 edition of the R&D Management Conference, organized by the University of Strathclyde, has come to an end, after days of countless excellent presentations,…
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…
Course Details The course “China Issues”, of 2 credits, addressed to the students of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, has kicked off in Pisa and…
Scuola Sant’Anna and Unione Industriale Pisana successfully launched the first edition of the Executive Course in “General Management in the SMEs” I am happy to…
Starting from this semester, the students of the “Managing Innovation Lab” of the Master MAIN (an academic project active for several years thanks to the…
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”. …
Last week I had the pleasure to greet students and thank all the participants of the first edition of “Seasonal School – Issues on 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….
For the second year in a row, I will hold the course of Introduction to Business Economics at “Luiss Guido Carli University” in Rome. Throughout…
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…
A new Executive Master for innovative and dynamics minds Professor Di Minin has become the Director of a brand new and innovative academic product: the…
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…
Since 2014 my blog #Fuoriclasse has been covering exceptional stories of innovation. Fuoriclasse is hosted by the Sole24Ore Nova and is dedicated to portrait stories of exceptional individuals who managed to do great things through their work.
The Institute of Management opens the doors to Alumni & Friends. A day to network and brainstorm at Scuola Sant’Anna. RSVP through this link
On May 25th, at the Unicredit Pavillion in Milan, took place the Technology Forum 2018 hosted by The European House – Ambrosetti. The Technology Forum…
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),…
On May 7, 2018, at the School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, within the activities of the Master MAINS (Master in Management, Innovazione e Ingegneria…
Course details The course, of 2 credits, addressed to the students of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, will take place between March and May 2018,…
On April 17th, in Chongqing University (CQU), took place the inaugural ceremony of the Italian Technology Exhibition, a roadshow of Italian tech companies in China….
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…
On Sunday December 10, 2017 at the Culture and Arts Centre in Bishan District of Chongqing (China), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Chongqing University and…
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
Alberto as Director of the Galileo Galilei Italian Institute in Chongqing signed together with the Rectors of Sant’Anna and Chongqing University and the Vice Mayor…
On the 30th of September Alberto will be present at the Nòva Open Innovation Days hosted by the University of Padova. More Info
I recently took part to the meeting with the Italian winners of the Phase1 of the SME Innovation Instrument, that I organized together with APRE. We were…
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…
Today Alberto was at the European Parliament in Bruxelles in order to take part in the presentation of the manual «SME and Financial Engineering in…
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…
Alberto was the Innovation Advisor of The European House – Ambrosetti for the organization of the Technology Forum 2016. Alberto designed with the help of…
Alberto will draw the conclusions of the Nova24 Round Table dedicated to the interaction between digital technologies and productivity On May 9, 2016, at 5:30…
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…
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…
On November 18th and 19th I took part in the China-Italy Science, Technology and Innovation Week (CISTIW) in Chongqing. The CISTIW is the most important…
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 this presentation that I gave at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC, I provide a quick introduction to the Meridian Fellowship on Social Innovation and to my project, Talent Europe,
I then present some of the latest numbers regarding the implementation of the SME Innovation instrument, one of the most innovative parts of the 8th presentation Framework program called Horizon 2020
I also discuss about three concepts that I think might be interesting to explore as a basis of a useful comparison between Europe and US science and technology Policy.
On May 4, 2015, Meridian welcomed the inaugural cohort of the Meridian Social Innovation Fellowship to Washington, D.C. The eight Fellows – who hail from Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain – are global problem-solvers who bring together networks and resources to solve critical challenges facing their organizations, communities, and countries. Meridian has brought together this distinguished group to drive ground-breaking advancements in the fields of youth and women empowerment, cultural integration, entrepreneurship, science, technology, and education. Alberto joined the program to develop TalentEurope.
Tuscan Start-Up Academy: Piccaluga & Di Minin new edition of the course at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna to connect Science & Technology with Business
Alberto coordinated the Junior Chapter of the Ambrosetti Technology Forum. The report presented during the 2014 meeting in CastelBrando insisted on the need to empower researchers, and their role in the national innovation system. Take a look at the videos and presentations on the Ambrosetti website
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.
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.
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…
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…
The presentation I shared today with the audience of Calabria Innova, can be found here.
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On December the 12th I travelled to Ireland to attend the first meeting of the second round of the High Level Group on Innovation…
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.
The idea of this project started two years ago, on a boat trip with Giovanna Oddo from EPO Patent Academy, in Prague. It continued…
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.
Italian Science and Technology was recognized at the finals of Intel Business Challenge 2013.
SEM+ a spin-off company of IIT and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna got the first prize as the most european innovative start-up of the year.
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.
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.
I had the opportunity to discuss about User Innovation in an unconventional-not-strictly-academic context during an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Florence in partnership with Confindustria, at the European Festival in Florence
BlaBlaCar is a very good example of a social platform turning into a great innovation, where users play a big role in shaping the success of the offering. Postoinauto.it, started by Olivier Bremer in 2009, happened to be at the right place at the right time, when the main investor in BlaBlaCar (Accel Partner) was hunting for companies to support the international expansion of the French company. Bremer was at the time managing the largest carsharing community in Italy at the time. “I got lucky” said to us Oliver, who is currently Country Manager for Italy… but luck is obviously only part of the story.
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.
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.
Open for Innovation, our biweekly column on Affari & Finanza “La Repubblica” is back, profiling interesting companies, and linking them with a management theory. Monday we discussed about Fantini Mosaici.
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.
Earlier in March, Simone Corsi and I accompanied a group of entrepreneurs from Confindustria Toscana Giovani, in a study tour around the San Francisco Bay…
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…