I am an Assistant Professor
 @ Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa - Italy

My research work deals with:

• R&D and Intellectual Property Management
• International Management
• Business Model Innovation

Come and Work with us!!

Apply for a Ph.D. in Management

Deadline is May 15th 2009

Our Ph.D. Faculty working on: intellectual property management, health management, green economy, open innovation, business model innovation, R&D management, science and technology policy, regional development, energy policies & management.

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A Great Success!!

On November the 20th, entrepreneurs managers, banks and universities discussed together with enthusiasm about the power of entrepreneurship to create value for our economy.

This workshop, organized by Andrea Piccaluga and me, was the Florence event of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

& Now.. stay tuned for the Upcoming Book!!

Many thanks to our sponsors:

Banca CR Firenze
Kauffman Foundation

&

BAIA
Confindustria Toscana
First Generation Network
Meta Group
Make Your Mark
Mind the Bridge
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Main Lab
Partnership for Growth
SIAF, Volterra

Our gratitude goes to the experts, managers, entprepreneurs, friends that collaborated and contributed to this event:
Luigi Amati, Andrea Barbaro, Richard Boly,Roberto Bonzio, Franco Calise, Massimo Colomban, Mary Countryman, Nick Noyes, Alessandro Ferretti, Frediano Finucci, Riccardo Fontanelli, Franco Gonnella,Antonella Mansi, Marco Marinucci, Gaetano Micciché, Claudio Orrea, Riccardo Pietrabissa, Roberto Siagri, Ronald Spogli, Stefano Stangoni, Renzo Valleggi, Riccardo Varaldo, Karen Wilson.

I would also like to acknowledge the incredible help for the organization of this event. A special mention goes to:

Alessia Melasecche, Silvia Perini, Stefania Pizzini,the Dream Team of Sant'Anna Students

Very soon the Italian scholarships
for the United World Colleges!

Click here for news regarding the scholarship,
or on the picture above for a piece broadcasted on La Sette

Alberto in the News

take a look...

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 IT ONLINE

Recently the Public Forum Institute of the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation listed it for the best entrepreneurial publications of 2008. 

The review calls the collected studies “…an excellent guide to industry trends”.

OPEN: (Italian) Business Models for Innovation  

On March the 18th
Henry Chesbrough,
Prof Riccardo Varaldo and Alberto
have presented to the public
the Italian edition of
"Open Business Models".

We applied Henry's models to
23 great cases of
Italian innovation

Get your copy!

From right to left:
Prof Riccardo Varaldo, Dr. Henry Chersbrough and Alberto

Alberto is the winner of the second prize
in the 2007 Sloan Industry Studies
Dissertation Award Competition

A big Thank You to the Sloan Foundation,

and to all my friends and colleagues that I acknolwedge in my dissertation.

Here they are

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 the dominant paradigm.

Get in touch with me if your company would like to take part to this initiative.
And visit our research website