| Biography |
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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