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Andrea Piccaluga

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Andrea Piccaluga is the Director of the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna since 2018. He is professor of Innovation Management and vice-president of Netval, the Italian network of University Technology Transfer Offices, since 2020, after being president from 2014 to 2019. He holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and a Master in Technology and Innovation Management from SPRU (University of Sussex, Brighton). He is Associate editor of the R&D Management Journal. He collaborates with large and medium-sized companies (Knauf, Loccioni, Venture Factory,  Enel, Edra, BB, etc.) in the field of Open Innovation and with the regional governments of Puglia (Arti) and Tuscany in the field of policies for entrepreneurship and technology transfer. He is member of the board of Fondazione Casa Cardinale Maffi and of the Italian Academy of Management (SIMA). He has published books and papers in the field of R&D management and technology transfer. He has recently written “Sorella Economia” (Edizioni Porziuncola) together with Marco Asselle and has co-edited “Il libro degli opposti” (Egea). In 2019 he was part of a EC Expert Group which wrote the report “Knowledge Transfer Metrics. Towards a European-wide set of harmonised indicators”. In 2019 he co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer on "Italian Universities and Technology Transfer: A Reevaluation” and in 2020 a Special Issue of the R&D Management Journal on "Providing solutions in emergencies: R&D and innovation management during Covid-19”. 

 

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Andrea Piccaluga is currently active in the following research fields:

- Open Innovation and R&D Management. In this research field the focus is about how firms of different sizes manage their innovation process through R&D activities and open innovation tools.

- The valorisation of research results from public research. This is perhaps the most consolidated field of research and it regards how universities and other Public Research Organisations manage their research results in order to generate impact on society. Emphasis is given to the role of university technology transfer offices and IP management.

- High-tech entrepreneurship and university spin-off companies. In this research area the object of study is represented by new start-up companies, their success factors and the motivations of academic entrepreneurs.

 

- Purpose-based organisations and franciscan economy. The focus of this research area is about those firms which choose to be purpose-based and to interpret capitalism in a new, more people-centred way. This area is also influenced by the contribution of the franciscan tradition in the field of economics and by integral ecology, as a new paradigm proposed by Pope Francis. This area also includes new ways of describing/measuring the impact of purpose-based organisations and the role played by innovative start-ups aiming at solving societal problems.

Courses taught at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna:

- Innovation Policies in Israel
- Open Innovation and R&D Management
- Innovative Entrepreneurship
- High-tech Entrepreneurship
- Firms and common good
 
Other lectures and short courses:
- the management of spin-off companies (Master Management della Ricerca, MIP-Politecnico di Milano)
- the third mission of universities (CRUI, NETVAL)
- Open Innovation and entrepreneurship (Master Industry 4.0 design, Università di Pisa)
- business model innovation (Master Big Data, Università di Pisa)
- impresa e bene comune (Master Magis, Istituto Universitario Sophia)

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Institute of Management
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Sistema d'lnnovazione di Israele