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…
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”.
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…
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.
As China becomes number one in the PCT statistics, Simone and Alberto look at the Chinese market as a source of innovation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are kicking off the 2012-13 edition of Master MAINS, with the interviews of almost 60 potential candidates.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
Looking back at 6 years of teaching IP Management with the FHINK International Master in Business Engineering.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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,…
Today, Simone Corsi, discusses his dissertation focused on Reverse Innovation.
I was one of the judges for the European Finals of the Intel Business Challenge 2012. 24 teams were selected out of a pool…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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.
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….
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…
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…
..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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
October 14th and 15th – Bologna Do you have a top ten list of books for the last decade? I have never though about one,…
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.
May 2012. Continuum Innovation featured this week in Open for Innovation (La Repubblica, Affari & Finanza). In this brief article we discuss about Continuum Innovation,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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! Alberto and Mattia Bianchi on the Journal of International Business Studies: the completion of a 4.5 years…
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…
A full day and a half exercise on Business Model Innovation: Aula Magna Storica Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, on May the 7th The event…
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…
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…
..An intriguing country, stimulating conversations on Open Innovation and the transition from isolated research to technology hubs.
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? “The deadliest machine on Serie A fields” La Repubblica “Tonight against Juventus, Udinese just…
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
I presented a paper which tries to explore the relationship between technology acquisition and new product development
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…
October 23rd – November 7th A little trip around the World. Coverage of the trip: San Francisco – Nov. 1st: Presentation of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Alberto is the winner of the second prize in the 2007 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award Competition
I am teaching Executive and MBA Short Courses on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property. Get in touch with me for more info
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…
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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