Isaac Lemus-Aguilar

Isaac Lemus-Aguilar
University of Sussex · Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)

PhD - Politecnico di Milano; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Introduction
Isaac has 15 years of professional experience in strategy, innovation and project management. Prior to entering academia, he worked as business consultant and strategy & innovation project manager. He has conducted projects for industries including Telecommunications, Banking, Insurance, Government, Education and Business Services. Isaac teaches courses in innovation management, strategic decision making, introduction to economics, business process management and project management at Undergraduate and Master levels.
Additional affiliations
January 2020 - January 2020
University of Sussex
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
March 2018 - present
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
March 2015 - July 2015
Politecnico di Milano
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Course: Business Process Management at Masters Levels
Education
October 2016 - May 2019
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Field of study
  • Innovation Management & Strategy
October 2013 - March 2019
Politecnico di Milano
Field of study
  • Innovation Management & Strategy
September 2006 - July 2008
Politecnico di Milano
Field of study
  • Strategic Project Management

Publications

Publications (19)
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Purpose –Although China can be considered an early adopter of the circular economy, there are few studies of remanufacturing business models in the context of the Chinese automobile industry. This study investigates viable business models, summarizes current obstacles, and anticipates future development opportunities and directions. Design/methodo...
Experiment Findings
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The rapid diffusion of Twitter as a social media tool has made it suitable to be used for big data quantitative research. KIBS and their clients use this platform to share, engage and get information fostering their innovation processes. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, we have contrasted interviews from nine KIBS with 16702 twe...
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The interest in Sustainable Business Models has grown rapidly in the last years. Although some progress has been made identifying this concept and the practices to become more sustainable, there is little knowledge about the organizational design that is most appropriate to create new business models or implement changes in existing ones towards a...
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Consulting firms are considered part of knowledge-intensive business services, in which expert knowledge plays a crucial input in the provision of service. Using a multi-case study, this study aims to improve understanding of how consulting firms strategically manage innovation processes and which capabilities and dimensions they focus on to delive...
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This study investigates the interlink between open innovation (OI) and digitalization in the service industry, particularly in consulting firms. OI is an emerging theory that has not been fully explored in the service industry. Consulting firms are example of knowledge-intensive business services and professional service firms, which are firms loca...
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While many eHealth innovation projects have emerged in the last few years, most of them remain as pilot projects. The purpose of this study is to improve our understanding of what conditions prevent these projects from not being implemented. Using a qualitative methodology, based on case studies, the authors studied projects that have been implemen...
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Renewable energy is not simply the cornerstone of a transition, but an entire electric power revolution. However, which are the technologies with which power companies are going to redesign the electricity industry? Interviews were conducted with innovation managers of the biggest power companies in Spain to shed some light on the innovation source...
Conference Paper
This paper aims to assess the 9 th SDG: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, are integrated within the public discourse in social media of FinTech firms. Using Social Media Analysis (SMA), we tracked the user-generated content published in Twitter. Based on the empirical material of 32,716 user-generated twits, we identify in average that 8.175...
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Entrepreneurship is the basis of economic development but is somehow limited by the lack of access to financing sources, especially in the crucial moments of start-up early-stage development. For crossing the so-called “valley of death,” start-ups need to access informal finance sources, such as business angels. This study aims at defining the prof...
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Consulting firms are considered part of knowledge-intensive business services, in which expert knowledge plays a crucial input in the provision of service. Using a multi-case study, this study aims to improve understanding of how consulting firms strategically manage innovation processes and which capabilities and dimensions they focus on to delive...
Experiment Findings
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The analysis of the use of social media for innovative entrepreneurship in the context has received little attention in the literature, especially in the context of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS). Therefore, this paper focuses on bridging this gap by applying text mining and sentiment analysis techniques to identify the innovative ent...
Conference Paper
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The analysis of the use of social media for innovative entrepreneurship in the context has received little attention in the literature, especially in the context of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS). Therefore, this paper focuses on bridging this gap by applying text mining and sentiment analysis techniques to identify the innovative ent...
Conference Paper
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The rapid diffusion of Twitter as a social media tool has made it suitable to be used for big data quantitative research. KIBS and their clients use this platform to share, engage and get information fostering their innovation processes. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, we have contrasted interviews from nine KIBS with 16702 twe...
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Innovation inside consulting firms has missed specific attention in academic research. Consulting firms usually are considered to be part of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS), Professional Service Firms (PSF) or Project-based Firms (PbF). However, consultancies possess particular characteristics that might affect generalizations made in...
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Innovation inside consulting firms has missed specific attention in academic research. Consulting firms usually are considered to be part of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS), Professional Service Firms (PSF) or Project-based Firms (PbF). However, consultancies possess particular characteristics that might affect generalizations made in...
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Services are the most representative sector in developed economies due to their contribution to GDP and employment. Consulting firms are classified as part of the Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and provide professional services to all types of organizations. Consulting firms usually innovate with their customers and suppliers in a nur...
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Services are the most representative sector in developed economies due to their contribution to GDP and employment. Consulting firms are classified as part of the Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and provide professional services to all types of organizations. Consulting firms usually innovate with their customers and suppliers in a nur...
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Purpose To identify the skills that consulting firms claim as essential to be held by their project-teams Design/methodology/approach The work begins with a literature review of the major studies performed on skills and their alignment with consulting project teams. This study then specifically, through a questionnaire, surveys a group of consultan...

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Projects (5)
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Share the latest calls for papers & chapters related to my research field
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Explore the implication of open innovation practices in different contexts (e.g. Services, SME, New Business Models)
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Identify business model innovation towards sustainability (e.g. circular economy, sharing economy, social fairness, etc).