Keynote speaker on Biodiversity Innovation at the TEHA Technology Forum 2025
I am very happy to inform you that I will attend the upcoming Ambrosetti House Technology Forum in Stresa, as Chief Innovation Officer of the…
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Open Innovation in Italy: Key Insights from the New Observatory Report
Biodiversity Moonshot: Innovating for an embedded future between business and nature
EINST4INE – Final Conference in Pisa
“Shared Challenges, Transformative Actions” – OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial in Paris
Open Innovation Lookout 2024
NEW PUBLICATION – Introducing the Open Innovation Policy Spinner
Workshop “Harnessing Technology and Innovation Partnerships” in Venice
Second edition of the Seasonal School – Issues on China!
Biodiversity Moonshot: Announcing Symposium at the Academy of Management in Boston
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…
New Seasonal School on Biodiversity and Business!
I am thrilled to announce the first edition of the Seasonal School “Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact” (BRI), organized by the National Biodiversity…
China Issues 2023 – Sixth edition of the course on Contemporary China is back
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…
Master MAIN Theses Supervised
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…
Launch of a New Cycle of Seminars – Toolbox for SMEs
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…
ArtIST “Il Bello” Pisa Summer School Updates
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…
R&D Management PDW at the AoM 2022 – Call for Drafts
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…
“Il Bello” Pisa Summer School – Five days to explore how art meets innovation
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…
OPEN: Tenure Track Position in Innovation Management
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…
NEW COURSE – General Manager in SMEs: tools and models to guide company growth
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…
New Award to our Latest Publication on the Digital Transformation of SMEs
It is with great pleasure that I share the news that my publication titled “The digital transformation of SMEs – a new knowledge broker called…
NEW PUBLICATION – “How Innovative EU Firms Faced the Covid-19 downturn”
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),…
RESEARCH – Alberto’s first editorial for R&D Management
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…
NEW BOOK – “La buona impresa”: Startups for a Better World
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…
RESEARCH – New adventure as Co-Editor in Chief of R&D Management Journal
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,…
New Position as Italian Representative in the OECD “Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy”
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…
China Issues 2021 – Fourth Edition of our Course on Contemporary China has kicked off in Pisa!
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…
Launch of the Executive Course in “General Management in the SMEs”
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…
ArtIST Winter School kicked off last month!
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…
Enjoy the EINST4INE Journey!
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…
NEW PAPER ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN CHINA
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”. …
ISSUES ON CHINA – An incredible first edition
Last week I had the pleasure to greet students and thank all the participants of the first edition of “Seasonal School – Issues on China”….
NEW RESEARCH – How the “EU Innovation Champions” successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
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…
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE – Intellectual capital in R&D Management
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…
NEW PAPER – The many shades of ‘openness’: an application of item response theory to open innovation research
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…
Sant’Anna and EINST4INE: a focus on talents
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…
NEW RESEARCH: CMR Issue on Digital Transformation
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….
Introduction to Business Economics kicks off in LUISS
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…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Platform Dependent Entrepreneurship
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,…
NEW PAPER – Value capture in open innovation processes with radical circles
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…
NEW PAPER – Pursuing justice or protecting local firms? Shenzhen courts move beyond judicial local protectionism
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…
What we have in MIND – Master in Management and Innovation Design
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…
ICC: New Call for Paper on Platform-dependent Enterpreneurship
Alberto is definitely in great company as co-guest editor for a new Industrial and Corporate Change special issue on Platform-dependent Entrepreneurship.
DeMarkers: capturing the dimensions of Open Innovation
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….
NEW BOOK: “Il gioco degli Opposti”
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
Special Issue: Experimentation for innovation: What’s now and what’s next
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…
Alberto coordinates the 6th edition of 4T: Tech Transfer Think Tank
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…
Academy of Management 2019
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…
Deadline coming up: Sept.15th. Call for Papers: R&D Management, Innovation Practices along the Belt and Road
“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…
#Fuoriclasse: My blog on Sole24Ore Nova
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.
October 8th: Engagement Day
The Institute of Management opens the doors to Alumni & Friends. A day to network and brainstorm at Scuola Sant’Anna. RSVP through this link
Alberto at the Technology Forum 2018 by The European House – Ambrosetti
On May 25th, at the Unicredit Pavillion in Milan, took place the Technology Forum 2018 hosted by The European House – Ambrosetti. The Technology Forum…
Design Thinking to improve visitor experience in “Piazza dei Miracoli” (Pisa)
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),…
Intellectual Property Strategies workshop
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…
China Issues Course on Contemporary China
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,…
Consul General Filippo Nicosia and Alberto open the inaugural ceremony of the “Italian Technology Exhibition” at Chongqing University
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….
Alberto presents the collaboration with Bishan as a Case Study at Tsinghua University
On April 14 and 15, 2018, at the School of Public Policy & Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing took place the “2018 Research &…
World Open Innovation Conference in San Francisco
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…
Celebrating Istituto Galilei 10th Anniversary
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…
Call for Special Issue on – University Technology Transfer. The Italian Case
Proposal for a Special Issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer University technology transfer, regional specializations, and local dynamics: Exploring the recipes for successful…
TEDx Presentation: Chongqing and the HighTech Silk Road
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 signs the agreement for the establishment of the Sino Italian Research and Innovation Area in Chongqing
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…
Nòva Open Innovation Days 2016
On the 30th of September Alberto will be present at the Nòva Open Innovation Days hosted by the University of Padova. More Info
Just back from the meeting with the Italian winners of the SME Innovation Instrument
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…
Open Innovation for the Digital Shift – A collection of case studies in the ICT Industry
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 at the EU Parliament
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…
Research with JRC featured at the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference
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…
Milan, Ambrosetti Tech Forum 2016
Alberto was the Innovation Advisor of The European House – Ambrosetti for the organization of the Technology Forum 2016. Alberto designed with the help of…
A reflection on the digital transformation
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…
China & Iran. New research on internationalization of R&D and Innovation System.
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….
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna wins EIBURS research grant 2015
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…
The new course High-Tech Business Venturing has started
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…
Italian Innovation in Chongqing
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…
Innovation Ecosystems – a summer reflection
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…
A debate on research and internationalization for the future of Irpinia
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…
The SME Innovation Instrument, Horizon2020 and Talent Europe
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.
Alberto in Washington as Meridian Social Innovation Fellow
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: Science & Technology meet Business
Tuscan Start-Up Academy: Piccaluga & Di Minin new edition of the course at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna to connect Science & Technology with Business
Empowering Researchers – Alberto's Participation to Ambrosetti Technology Forum
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
SME Innovation Instrument – Great Italian participation to Phase 1
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.
High Level Group on Innovation Policy Management
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.
Pisa Research lands in Stuttgart for R&D Management Conference
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…
A Two pages special on Sole 24 Ore on Technology Valorization
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…
Calabria Innova!!
The presentation I shared today with the audience of Calabria Innova, can be found here.
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Talent Italy: Challenge Prizes all’Italiana
The platform Talent Italy www.talentitaly.it is online.
The first challenge prize is focused on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). To the best course developed by a researcher, teacher, start-up 100K EUR.
In Dublin for the High Level Group on Innovation Policy
On December the 12th I travelled to Ireland to attend the first meeting of the second round of the High Level Group on Innovation…
Visit to China Nov 14th – 19th
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.
Presented at the AOM2013: CMR Special issue on IP Strategic Management
The idea of this project started two years ago, on a boat trip with Giovanna Oddo from EPO Patent Academy, in Prague. It continued…
Innovation Policy and Smart Cities
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.
The Sky is Blue over Dublin! Italian S&T dominates Intel Buz Challenge
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.
Join our DBA Program!
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.
Alberto Chairing a Session at an EPO/OECD Conference
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.
User Led Innovation at the European Festival in Florence
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 featured in Open for Innovation
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.
Strategic Agility: the Case of Udinese Calcio accepted on EMJ
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.
Loccioni Business Game: Final lecture for Open Innovation Module
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 – Edition 2013
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: featuring Fantini Mosaici
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.
Introducing Appropriability Advantage
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.
California Study Tour: Day by day updates
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…