Andrea Paraboschi and Alberto start a new class in Trento
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…
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Getting Ready for some California Time
Alberto and Simone have organized a study & business tour for a group of Italian entrepreneurs to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The group will stop by for lectures at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. They will be hosted by the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco and they will have meetings at City Hall. Other stops feature the Culinary Institute of America, LinkedIn, Plug&Play, Skydeck, Google, Idean… etc etc
Alberto and Simone codeveloped this initiative with the young entrepreneurs of Confindustria Toscana, as a sort of continuation of the lecture series “Change Agents”, which was an interesting experiment. “The idea was to mix theory and practice, to provoke new thinking and allow these young entrepreneurs to become actors of innovation and new investment within their companies”, says Alberto. “I was very happy to read Giacomo Gellini’s interview on La Nazione, as he truly represented with his words the spirit of what I am trying to do with companies, in my executive education programs”.
IP and Open Innovation
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…
Skills and Tools for High Tech Entrepreneurs
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.
China as an Innovation Hub: Alberto and Simone write on Mondo Cinese
As China becomes number one in the PCT statistics, Simone and Alberto look at the Chinese market as a source of innovation.
Intel Business Challenge 2013: the heat is on!
The campaign to look for the Italian Dreamteam (i.e. the 10 entrepreneurial teams that will challenge their European colleagues during Round 2), has officially started. Teams will have the opportunity to submit their application online till February the 22nd.
Alberto discusses about the social media revolution with the clients of TD Group
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.
Searching for Made in Italy Pioneers: Slide and its HT Furniture
Today, in La Repubblica we feature the story of Giuseppe and Marco Colonna Romano, from Slide, pioneering their own way through the traditional industry of furniture.
Discussion of the Project Works at Master Mains
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.
RENA 7th National Assembly in Florence
Theory meets practice, and young talents from many walks of life meet for the 7th Assemblea Generale of RENA. Rena is a national network of professionals: public and private managers, consultants, journalists and (yes…) researchers. Affiliates share a common drive to make a difference acting as positive actors of change, leading by example, with honesty and transparency.
Looking for the best students for MAINS 2013
We are kicking off the 2012-13 edition of Master MAINS, with the interviews of almost 60 potential candidates.
Swinging by old and new friends in the SF Bay Area
I am wrapping up this great trip to San Francisco/Berkeley. Not only work, but also pleasure and I was able to greet some old and…
Open for Innovation… in the Cloud
A management buyout, a profound knowledge of business process and the impact of ICT, an all-italian-team. These are the ingredients of this week’s episode of…
Back to Berkeley, 10 years later!
10 years have gone by since my first time in Berkeley. As a PhD Student at BRIE/City and Regional Planning/Haas it was an incredible experience. After my graduation, I found many excuses to be back in San Francisco and Berkeley, but now, 10 years after my first time in town, I find it somehow different. Berkeley has defined in a unique way the scholar and the person I am today, and going back is like a walk back memory lane.
Safe Nests, Inter-firm Relationships in Groningen
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.
Oct.25th: What a Day!
First of all I should extend my congratulations to Barbara Gilicze, who graduated (with honors!), after presenting her dissertation on social innovation. Barbara helped me…
Alberto is one of the Keynote Speakers at the Intel European Research & Innovation Conference
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.
Master FHINK: Teaching IP Mgmt. The way I always wanted to
Looking back at 6 years of teaching IP Management with the FHINK International Master in Business Engineering.
Wedding Tour 2012: Everybody is getting Married!!
It started with Amanda and Chris in Göteborg,
Chiara and Andrea in the Marche,
Laura and Mirko in Parma…
and finally Ludovico and Barbara in Rome.
Emergency: Projecting help beyond borders
In the last few weeks, I got to know a little bit better Emergency, the incredible organization started by Gino Strada, whose mission is to…
Alberto and Andrea Lecturing at Khalifa University (Emirates)
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.
Knauf College in Viareggio
Sales and Marketing manager from all over the world met in Viareggio for the 10th edition of the Knauf College. Managers took off for…
Loccioni: implementing Open Innovation
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.
Seacom is the winner of Digital Experience Day At Internet Festival
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…
What is Going on with Alberto's Alumni?
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…
Speaking the IP Language and Getting Ready for SMAU
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,…
Innovation in Reverse.. but Simone Corsi moves forward!
Today, Simone Corsi, discusses his dissertation focused on Reverse Innovation.
Intel Business Challenge
I was one of the judges for the European Finals of the Intel Business Challenge 2012. 24 teams were selected out of a pool…
ReStart Italia.. a new hope for Research in Italy?
On sep 13th in H-Farm the Minister for Economic Development Passera met with entrepreneurs, investors, experts of the ever-expanding Italian innovation ecosystem. I was present…
Teaching innovation management in Twente
Coming to Enschede is not really a joke.. flying to Amsterdam, two hours train from Schiphol… and then finding your way around the campus of…
Alberto at the NetVal Summer School
On September the 12th, Alberto presented at the NetVal Summer School in Bertinoro. NetVal (LINK A NETVAL QUA) is the largest organization in Italy for…
Back to work!
And the sun is setting on a very nice summer… No Polinesia for me, or other fancy place! We actually renter a RV and explored…
Workshop with Confindustria Giovani
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.
Alberto presenting a paper on Ansaldo Energia in Harvard
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.
Creativity Innovation Management in Berlin
Yes, quite right: an Italian, in Berlin, a few hours before the semifinals of the European Cup (Italy-Germany) is presenting a paper on Italian Football….
Getting ready for Boston
Just a week before leaving for Boston. Alberto will attend the 10th International Open and User Innovation Workshop and the Academy of Management (more details…
Comacer: last piece for La Repubblica before the summer
To close before the summer, Open for Innovation focuses this week on Comacer, a company which started in Castel Bolognese, and has now turned into…
Alberto is the Italian Affiliate for the: Intel Business Challenge 2012
..One of the best business plan competitions worldwide, worldclass mentorship, expert advice, the chance to enter Silicon Valley from the front door. Applications (only an…
Alberto & Simone Corsi are the co-organizers of: Chinese Market as a Source of Innovation
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…
Alberto is co-editing a special issue for California Management Review
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…
Alberto and Andrea interview two Italian Innovators
Giancarlo Michellone and Roberto Siagri bring their own professional experience of managers and entrepreneurs, and discuss with Andrea and Alberto. Two different views of high…
Valentine Day 2012 A date with a VC
For the last lecture of “Skills and Tools for High Tech Entrepreneurs” 9 groups of studentspresent their elevator’s pitch in front of Nicola Redi (TT-Venture,…
Alberto & Andrea's Course
Skills and Tools for High-Tech entrepreneurs wannabe November 2011 – January 2012 Skills and tools for entrepreneurship and technology management Alberto and Andrea Piccaluga offered…
Jan 30th Kick off day Toscana Open
In a world where sources of innovation are increasingly dispersed, companies need to renew their competitive advantage by getting access to competences and ideas that…
Alberto @ ABB Creativity Lab
Take a big breath and think: What does it take to be an industry leader? Innovate products, services, business models: of course! But leading companies…
CNA Next – Collective Intelligence Experiences
October 14th and 15th – Bologna Do you have a top ten list of books for the last decade? I have never though about one,…
Celebrating Borellino's Bachelor Party
Rome 25 May: I am in Rome celebrating Andrea’s Bachelor Party.
Andrea Borelli, my friend since… half a life ago is getting married in a couple of weeks.
Innovation à la Continuum
May 2012. Continuum Innovation featured this week in Open for Innovation (La Repubblica, Affari & Finanza). In this brief article we discuss about Continuum Innovation,…
Giglio.com, from local to global: how to reinvent a market
According to Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) people are more willing to buy specific categories of goods on the internet, first of all books. And thus…
Trento makes hitech school
Real recipe to make result is to look far in the time. Richard Florida, American economist, says that the recipe of innovation is made of…
Melinda: when union makes strenght
“Small is awful”. It’s what you can say in those economic areas where there is a strong need of certificated quality, advanced technology, well known…
Vibram: when the supplier becomes a trademark
After a long history of component of technical shoes supplier, Vibram created in 2005 FiveFingers, launghing the barefoot running trend. A component supplier has 2…
Esaote, innovation at the bottom of the pyramid
One of the biggest challenges in our time is to bring a good life style the largest group of people, including the ones that cannot…
TRE: When spin-off is stronger than University
Henry Etzkowitz teorized the triple helix model: when the State create conditions and rules, if University develops and is able to transfer its research, and…
M31, the tecnologic incubator making its success on two Atlantic sides
It’s not common to see two successing people, a university professor and a high level manager, leaving their work to become enterpreneurs. This is the…
Gelesis and the death valley of startups
According to Geffrey Moore “Death Valley” theory, every hi-tech startup must, at a certain time of its life, go across a period in which greatest…
Udinese: when profit makes goals
Udinese is on the top of the Italian soccer championship, but it’s not only soccer we are talking about. According to Franco Soldati, it’s not…
Edra, open innovation by design
Created in 1987, Edra has been, in the last few years, aknowledge to be one of the most innovative enterprises, nationally and internationally, thus entering…
Eurotech dilemma: when today is success, tomorrow is the greatest risk
That moment in which things are going very good, in an enterprise, is called innovator’s dilemma. In fact innovating at this time is a great…
Loccioni: when enterprise is hitech the enviroment grows
You will be probably surprised to find between many multinationa enterprises, in the Italian best place to work classification, a small industry from Marche. Enrico…
Alberto Back in Twente
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…
Open Innovation at the Academy of Management
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…
Innovation in Necessary.. at least in Piemonte. But Why so?
On July the 8th, Alberto addressed the Giovani di Confindustria Piemonte, during their annual meeting in Stresa. What were the results of a full day…
What does it take to Speak the IP Language?
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…
On Monday June 13th Alberto and Henry Chesbrough at the Open Innovation Tour in Milan.
The Istituto di Management – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna has contributed to two books presented in the course of the morning event of the International Open…
Safe Nests in Global Nets landed on JIBS!
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…
Digital Economy Forum
On May 12th, I have taken part to the Digital Economy Forum in Venice I moderated a panel on e-commerce, starting from questions I was…
Join me for a full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation
A full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation: Aula Magna Storica Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, on May the 7th The event…
How "Open" is Innovation in The Netherlands?
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…
My personal way to celebrate Italy's 150th with Bill Emmott
In 2011 we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the unified country in a bizarre and tense atmosphere. It has been argued that Italy is…
February: Alberto Lecturing in Tehran
..An intriguing country, stimulating conversations on Open Innovation and the transition from isolated research to technology hubs.
New Pirates in Silicon Valley!
I have visited Pier 38, one of the tech incubators in San Francisco, this is the piece that I wrote (ITA only..) for Innov’Azione on…
Innovation & Football: what is behind the success of Udinese Calcio?
Innovation & Football: what is behind the success of Udinese Calcio? “The deadliest machine on Serie A fields” La Repubblica “Tonight against Juventus, Udinese just…
Milan, Jan. 26th: Technology & New Products at KITES
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
Milan, Jan. 26th: Technology & New Products at KITES
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
Florence, Jan 24th: Internet Better Business
I introduced and tried to apply the concept of Absorptive Capacity in front of a quite diverse audience of entrepreneurs in Florence. Take a look…
Introducing Fondazione Ricerca & Imprenditorialità in San Francisco and Chongqing
October 23rd – November 7th A little trip around the World. Coverage of the trip: San Francisco – Nov. 1st: Presentation of…
Barbaric Ideas
Innovation Management met Good Literature On October 2nd I interviewed two of my favorite authors: Alessandro Baricco Edoardo Nesi Baricco and Nesi are the authors…
A look at R&D investment strategies of Chinese companies in Europe
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…
Does Open Innovation Work in a Downturn?
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…
Global Entrepreneurship Week in Italy
Through the generous support of various partners, and after the success of the event organize last year in Florence… on November 16th 2009 we inaugurated…
My Book came out!!
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…
Global Entrepreneurship Week
On November the 20th 2008, entrepreneurs managers, banks and universities discussed together with enthusiasm about the power of entrepreneurship to create value for our economy….
Innovation in Global Industries
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…
OPEN: (Italian) Business Models for Innovation
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…
2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
Alberto is the winner of the second prize in the 2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
Do you Speak the IP Language?
I am teaching Executive and MBA Short Courses on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property. Get in touch with me for more info
Is your R&D Lab ready for Open Innovation?
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…
Who is Alberto
Associate Professor of Strategy at the Istituto di Management – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. My research and teaching deals with the appropriation of innovation. I focus on open innovation and new business models.
I collaborate with Nòva – Sole24Ore and I serve as the Italian Representative in the SME, Access to Risk Finance Horizon 2020 Program Committee.
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