Andrea Piccaluga

Andrea Piccaluga
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies | SSSUP

PhD in Management of Innovation

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A partire dai temi del Manifesto “L’impresa che vogliamo”, il gruppo Regenerative Innovation della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa riflette sui principi di una innovazione generativa che integri (1) l’adozione di un purpose pro-sociale, (2) la valorizzazione delle persone e (3) la generazione di impatto positivo. Illustrando le linee di attività...
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Purpose This paper aims to explore how the implementation of gap funding instruments such as Proof-of-Concept (PoC) programs can contribute to developing dynamic capabilities in Public Research Organizations (PROs). The research investigates the processes and practices underlying PoC programs that may provide potential foundations for dynamic capab...
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Startups play a crucial role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their innovative solutions that increasingly focus on sustainability. However, they face significant challenges in effectively assessing their contribution to the SDGs. In our study, by adopting an action-research methodology, we develop and introduce Prosper...
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Purpose Recognizing novel entrepreneurial opportunities arising from a crisis is of paramount importance for firms. Hence, understanding the pivotal factors that facilitate firms in this endeavor holds significant value. This study delves into such factors within a representative empirical context impacted by a crisis, drawing insights from existin...
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In recent years, a growing number of firms have implemented the concept of shared value creation and proposed themselves as purpose-driven organisations. It is widely argued that such a dynamic will influence the next wave of innovation and growth in the global economy and contribute to reshape capitalism and its impact on society. In this perspect...
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Purpose Humane Entrepreneurship (HumEnt) is strongly purpose-oriented and characterized by a focus on inclusiveness and social and environmental sustainability, with attention to both internal and external stakeholders and their needs. In the attempt to provide new research in this field, this study aims to conduct an empirical investigation within...
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Purpose The objective of this study is to examine current business and management research on “Industry 4.0 base technologies” and “business models” to shed light on this vast literature and to point out future research agenda. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications based on 482 documen...
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Big Science is a fertile learning environment for the transfer of knowledge and technology to suppliers since it boosts economic performance, innovation and reputation. However, despite the growing importance of this topic in the literature, empirical evidence is still limited. This paper investigates technology transfer from Big Science through pr...
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Purpose This study aims to combine open innovation (OI) and organizational learning (OL) literature in the context of strategic alliances. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a conceptual framework that links OI to OL literatures. The authors empirically validate this framework through four representative cases of dyadic strategic alli...
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The literature on Entrepreneurial University has emphasised the importance of encouraging and supporting the entrepreneurial intent of students, both PhDs and undergraduates. However, more research is needed about how PhD students can be supported in their entrepreneurial and technology transfer initiatives. This study seeks to contribute to this f...
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Over the last 20 years, universities and Public Research Organizations have increased their efforts to transfer their research results towards industrial applications in order to generate economic and social impact. Among many different actions, new technology transfer offices (TTOs) have been set up and existing ones strengthened. The present pape...
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The multifaceted issues regarding university-industry relations are an increasing focus of attention of both scholars and practitioners, as a means of enhancing current knowledge transfer practices and policies. One of the central questions is whether and how the mechanisms underlying different types of university-industry collaborations (collabora...
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The new paradigm known as the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to have a significant impact on business during the next years, as it leads to the connection of physical objects and the interaction between the digital and physical worlds. While prior literature addressing the business implications arising from this paradigm has largely considere...
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Although start-ups’ survival has been widely investigated, only few studies have focussed on the impact of the combined effect of firms’ internal resources. Drawing upon the resource-based view (RBV), we selected four internal resources influencing start-ups’ survival (R&D activity, advertising activity, export activity, and human capital) and we a...
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Purpose There is little known about investigating the importance of all proximity dimensions simultaneously as a result of geographical proximity on university-industry collaborative innovation. This paper aims to answer the question of how geographically proximate university and industry influence cognitive, social, organizational, institutional a...
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Purpose This paper combines the literature on knowledge transfer and that on organizational behavior to analyze how perceived empowerment and perceived engagement affect knowledge transfer offices’ (KTOs’) performance, measured in terms of the number of license agreements. Design/methodology/approach The authors measured the cognitions which const...
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In this article, we explore and interpret organizational identity transformation associated with open innovation strategy of the largest telecommunication company in Italy, Telecom Italia (TIM). When TIM established eight joint laboratories within five major Italian universities to benefit from opening its business model, it transferred some of the...
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This paper examines the relationship between R&D investments , innovation and growth in high-technology SMEs during a period of economic downturn. We conduct a quan-tile regression analysis of longitudinal data collected on a panel of 460 high-technology SMEs over a 6 years period, to test the impact of different activities characterising firms' in...
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Open innovation (OI) projects are increasingly adopted by small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet, undertaking OI is not only a source of opportunities for SMEs as it can, at the same time, present risks. How SMEs manage the balance between the potential benefits and the emerging challenges of OI is still an overlooked topic in the literatu...
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Forthcoming October 2019 in Recherches en Sciences de Gestion-Management Sciences-Ciencias de Gestion. Abstract: There are strong expectations towards research spin-offs, but insufficient empirical evidence still exists on the determinants of growth of such companies. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on growth -or non-growth- o...
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Purpose Knowing the factors influencing the success of collaborative innovation is particularly relevant for both academics and practitioners. Nonetheless, many studies have regarded the megatrends influencing innovation imperatives, the development of co-innovation strategies, the selection of partners and the involvement of user communities, but...
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This paper focuses on how companies deploy structural properties of adaptive capacity (multiplexity, redundancy and loose coupling) to cope with the phenomenon of internal challenges of Open Innovation (OI) implementation, i.e. organisational and cultural changes. We developed a single case study, which offered significant findings. First, the mult...
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The entrepreneurship literature has vastly focused on the antecedents and drivers toward recognizing opportunities for the individuals. There are also ongoing studies regarding the sources of knowledge for the venture creation, and scholars put these sources into three categories of entrepreneurship namely as “user entrepreneurship”, “academic entr...
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The formation of new ventures is among the most significant sources of technological innovation and fast economic development. Nonetheless, most attempts at starting new businesses will be unsuccessful. This study seeks to predict new venture success (‘Take‐off’) based on different factors observed in the pre‐startup phase. We apply the resource‐ba...
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This study explores the process of open innovation (OI) implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the aim of shedding light on the factors that may either enhance or undermine effectiveness in different contexts. The hypothesis of different paths of OI implementation is shaped across three theoretical dimensions: (1) the com...
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Purpose This paper aims to shed light on how family firms execute open innovation strategies by managing internal and external knowledge flows. Design/methodology/approach First, through a comprehensive literature review, the paper identifies the barriers to the acquisition and transfer of knowledge in open innovation processes. Second, it prese...
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The advent of Internet has dramatically increased the interest of scholars about the topic of Business models. Due to the internet many companies were forced to reconsider their business models (Teece, 2010; Wirtz et al., 2010) in order to exploit new opportunities enabled by the digital revolution (Fleisch et al., 2014). In addition in the last ye...
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There are strong expectations towards research spin-off companies despite the fact that it seems that many of them do not grow. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the open debate on the growth -or non-growth- of research spin-offs through a focus on Italy. A resource-based perspective is adopted for identifying the critical variables determi...
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There are strong expectations towards research spin-offs (RSOs). The literature about this particular kind of companies is booming. Nonetheless, there are no exhaustive analyses currently available about the link between the alma mater and the potential clustering effects. Some universities originate more RSOs than others, but what about the cluste...
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Going beyond the popular effectiveness argument of the OI paradigm, this study disentangle a neglected aspect of OI: the challenges embedded in its implementation. Through a systematic literature review, we analyze the private and public R&D, systematizing the challenges in internal and external, whether they arise within or outside organizational...
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This paper examines the relationship between innovation strategies and growth in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). By the use of firm-level survey data on a panel of of 383 high technology SMEs, we adopt a configurational approach and we identify through cluster analysis three groups with different and unrelated innovation strategies (clos...
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The attention on open innovation in large enterprises rapidly grew among scholars and practitioners in the last decade. Nonetheless, recently academic research drew attention on the current limited understanding of the challenges faced by companies that undertake open innovation strategies. We address this knowledge gap by conducting a focused revi...
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OVERVIEW: On August 12, 2011, Google filed a request with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the reexamination of two patents used by Lodsys to file lawsuits against several Android coders. The first public move of the Internet giant to defend Android application developers from patent lawsuits, this filing is just one of a growing numb...
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This report synthesizes the results of 13 case studies on innovative ICT and ICT-enabled companies across Europe. It aims to assess the impact of Open Innovation strategies (OISs) on their innovation processes and to highlight the role played by ICT.
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To the best of our knowledge, no existing theory could guide us in categorizing Open Innovation (OI) in SMEs. Scholars agree that further explorative research on this topic is needed, since quantitative evidence and theory-testing approaches are fragmented, and do not represent unitary body of knowledge (Dahlander and Gann, 2010; Huizigh, 2011). Th...
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This chapter deals with how the unique features of China impact on the R&D activities of foreign MNCs operating there. The R&D performance of companies in emerging economies triggered the interest of management scholars a few years ago, and attention has increased due to the last financial and industrial crisis which has facilitated emerging econom...
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Establishing deeper engagement with industry and society has recently become a key concern of universities. To pursue this goal, universities – as well as other Public Research Organizations (PROs) – have started to reorganize internal resources, to redefine their activities and policies, and to redesign their overall knowledge transfer (KT) busine...
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In recent years, universities have become more active in performing new activities that have been added to those regarded as 'traditional'. This trend has led to a number of changes, among which is a transformation of the status of universities in urban and regional contexts and, in particular, an increase in their impact on the development of medi...
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OVERVIEW: Reverse innovation is not always either foreseeable or explicitly pursued by Western companies operating in emerging economies. Sometimes, it arises from the initiative of the foreign subsidiary and results when products initially intended strictly for an emerging market threaten the primary market of the parent company. This has been the...
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HTSFs are widely recognized as one of the most important sources of new knowledge for technological innovations in the last decades. The literature about the open innovation paradigm shows an increasing interest in understanding the nature of knowledge interactions between HTSFs and their environment. The open innovation paradigm has so far been st...
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Strategic agility can be defined as a firm-level ability to continuously adjust and adapt decisions to the changing circumstances of the external environment and thus nurture value creation (Doz & Kosonen, 2008a). At its very heart, agility allows integrating diverging strategic objectives, i.e. focus and adaptability, commitment and flexibility. T...
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This paper aims at providing a first base of knowledge for the analysis of the strategies adopted by the Italian companies investing in Japan in high technology industries. Despite the Italian industrial system being only marginally present in the Japanese market, in comparison to other European countries, interesting interaction dynamics are detec...
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Working across corporate boundaries to co-develop products and customer solutions is becoming a critical aspect of product and service development in a wide range of industries. By and large, three key sets of practices need consideration when it comes to collaborative creation and development: strategy, which includes development chain design and...
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The implementation of a change in IP strategy represents a challenging task for firms, because organizational resources and capabilities (procedures, routines, and know-how) that are required in the new strategic context may be lacking. This article examines the operational solutions adopted by the semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics to s...
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The relation between SMEs’ R&D investments and the economic cycle deserves further exploration. The impact of economic downturns on R&D activities is indeed a controversial issue in the literature, since there is no general agreement about the direction of firms’ adjustment strategies and - more in general - about the mechanisms which link R&D inve...
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This chapter explains the business model concept and explores the reasons why “innovation” and “innovation in services” are no longer exclusively a technological issue. Rather, we highlight that business models are critical components at the centre of business innovation processes. We also attempt to describe the characteristics of a business model...
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Purpose – Triple helix theory stresses co‐evolution and interaction among governments, enterprises and universities, and is paid great attention by governments, universities and enterprises worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that Chinese government R&D investments play in the interaction between enterprises and universi...
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In questo libro vengono presentate sedici storie di Technology Transfer Office (TTO) — anche detti Uffici di Trasferimento Tecnologico (UTT) o Industrial Liaison Office (ILO) — di Università italiane. Le storie rappresentano il cuore del volume e sono precedute da due capitoli che hanno l’obiettivo di definire il contesto operativo dei TTO, fornend...
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La Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna è un’istituzione universitaria a statuto speciale, nata nel 1987, che opera nel campo delle scienze sperimentali (ingegneria, medicina ed agraria) e delle scienze sociali (economia, giurisprudenza e scienze politiche). Si tratta di un’istituzione che conta oggi su un organico di 101 professori e ricercatori. La Scuola...
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Con il progressivo affermarsi dell’economia basata sulla conoscenza, la competitività dei sistemi nazionali dell’innovazione è sempre più influenzata dalle caratteristiche e dalla performance della ricerca pubblica e dalla capacità del sistema della ricerca di contribuire alla valorizzazione dei propri risultati, facilitando la diffusione della con...
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La tesi di fondo del presente volume è articolabile in cinque punti: i processi di valorizzazione dei risultati della ricerca pubblica sono importanti per la crescita socio-economico-culturale della società nel suo complesso, degli stati nazionali e di singole imprese e regioni in particolare; tali processi sono complessi, presentano molte sfaccett...
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L’opera presenta e descrive il fenomeno del trasferimento tecnologico da università a industria attraverso una prospettiva originale, da “insider”, cioè la prospettiva delle università. Il volume racconta, attraverso la penna degli stessi protagonisti, la nascita, la crescita e le esperienze degli Uffici di Trasferimento Tecnologico (TTO) delle pri...
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R&D strategy formulation represents a critical task for those firms that base their competitive advantage on innovation. Different sources of information must be accessed in this respect, among which patents. Conventional patent analysis has commonly focused on factual information, while less scholarly attention has been devoted to the strategic ro...
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Since the Eighties mini-invasive technologies have been increasingly used in order to improve the quality of patients' life as well as the effectiveness and the efficiency of treatments. The necessary high investments in Research and Development (R&D) have represented an incentive for healthcare organizations to collaborate with specialized firms o...
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In questo capitolo viene spiegato il concetto di modello di business e si esplorano le ragioni per cui „innovazione“ e „innovazione nei servizi“ non sono più esclusivamente un problema di tecnologia. Evidenziamo che sono piuttosto i modelli di business, oggetto di trattazione, a costituire una componente critica al centro del processo di innovazion...
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Questo capitolo si occupa di definire il trasferimento tecnologico, al fine di inquadrare le tematiche affrontate nelle parti successive, in particolare rispetto alla più ampia nozione di trasferimento di conoscenze. Un’attenzione particolare é dedicata al tema della titolarità delle invenzioni accademiche, cioè all’appartenenza dei risultati delle...
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Questo capitolo affronta il tema delle imprese spin-off della ricerca pubblica. L’obiettivo é quello di fornire un contributo utile e concreto, ancorché teoricamente fondato, riguardo a questa specifica tipologia di imprese, oggetto di intensa attenzione negli ultimi dieci-quindici anni. Viene innanzitutto inquadrato il fenomeno nel presente scenar...
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Questo capitolo affronta il tema dell’organizzazione e gestione di un ufficio di trasferimento tecnologico (TTO). Il filo conduttore rimane la figura professionale del TTO manager e delle relazioni con tutti gli stakeholders dell’intero ciclo di trasferimento tecnologico. Si intende fornire un percorso ideale che partendo dalla definizione e condiv...
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Questo capitolo introduttivo dà conto delle ragioni sottese alla redazione di un libro sulla gestione del trasferimento tecnologico, cercando di evidenziare il carattere fortemente interdisciplinare e la contaminazione dei saperi che questa attività relativamente nuova richiede. La diffusione della cultura del trasferimento tecnologico, anche media...
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Questo capitolo affronta la tematica della valorizzazione della proprietà intellettuale mediante l’uso di licenze. Viene descritto un percorso ideale che dalla fase esplorativa del mercato arriva sino alla conclusione di un accordo di sfruttamento e alla determinazione dei suoi contenuti. La prospettiva principale é quella dell’ente pubblico di ric...
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One of the key elements of Fiat's recent resurgence is the superiority of its clean, fuel-efficient engine technologies that were mostly developed during the 1990s by Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), the Fiat Group company in charge of R&D and technology development. In the early 1990s, when the Italian carmaker was going through troubling times (along...
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The performance of the Italian academic system in terms of patenting and licensing activities has improved over the past few years. Statistic data collected through the annual survey of the Italian Network for the Valorization of Research show that all indicators increased, but those concerning licensing revenues, and that such trend is consistent...
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This study aims to analyse the patenting and licensing activities within the Italian university system moving from a reliable set of data. In particular, the aim of this paper is to represent – through the analysis of specific empirical evidence – the qualitative leap experienced by Italian universities over last years (period 2004-2007) in the fie...
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This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be undertaken. This enlightening book focuses on the singl...
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An intense debate is going on about more “open” strategies that are supposedly diffusing in industrial R&D. We here discuss the relationship between such practices and Human Resources Management (HRM) in industrial R&D Labs. The paper in fact aims at representing an original attempt of looking at the linkage between R&D strategy and HRM in some Ita...
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The paper is an attempt to discuss the strategies, actions and results of Italian university Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), most of which have been set up recently, since the late Nineties. For this purpose, relevant data have been collected in a four-year annual survey (2002-2005) which the authors are coordinating within NetVal, the Italian...

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