Laura Albareda
Laura Albareda has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation and as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at ESADE. She has recently been postdoctoral fellow at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College and visiting researcher at Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Her research focuses on sustainability and theory of business enterprise, business in global governance, stakeholder management and multistakeholder dialogue and socially responsible investment. Her research work has been published in specialised journals such as: Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and Journal of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and Business and Society Review. She is co-author of the book: Governments and Corporate Social Responsibility: Public Policies beyond Regulation and Voluntary Compliance (Palgrave McMillan, 2008; Granica, 2005).
Kerstin Alfes
Kerstin is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston Business School, teaching Human Resource Management and Leadership at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has worked on several research projects looking at the role of the HR function, public management and employee attitudes to work. She is a member of the Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. Kerstin received her PhD from the University of Berne, Switzerland. Prior to this, she received her degree in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim, Germany.
Shahzad Ansari
Dr Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari is a University Lecturer in Strategy at the Judge Business School, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Organization Science and Organization Studies, and a full member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). He is also a consulting engineer at Thinfi lms Inc, providing services to over 150 corporations. His research interests are institutional change; technological and management innovations; knowledge management; new market development; institutional processes in public and private fi elds; outsourcing and offshoring. He has published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Review, Research Policy, Organization Studies. Shaz's areas of expertise include strategic management, technological and business model innovation, corporate social responsibility and triple bottom line. He has delivered executive education programs for various organizations, including Shell, British Telecom, Nokia. MPhil, PhD (Univ. of Cambridge)
Steinar Bjartveit
Partner and consultant in B&E Consulting as a Lecturer at the BI Norwegian School of Management, he provides a unique understanding of leadership and management challenges by combining historical and academic perspectives with experimental learning. His approach has been benchmarked by Ashridge as the leading edge of business school innovation. Steinar is an experienced certifi ed management consultant that has worked with several CEOs and top management teams both in Norway and internationally.
Lourdes Casanova
Lourdes, a Lecturer in the Strategy Department at INSEAD, specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets. She has taught at INSEAD since 1989, was a visiting professor at Haas School of Business, at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford in 2010. She has taught and directed executive programs at INSEAD for senior managers from global multinationals including Telefónica, BBVA and Cemex. She is also a consultant of multinationals operating in Latin America. She is responsible at INSEAD of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative and was co-leading the InnovaLatino research project on Innovation in Latin America. She is also member of important Advisory Committees worldwide. A Fulbright Scholar with a Masters degree from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Barcelona.
José Pablo Feijoo
Jose Pablo is Partner Director of his own managed fi rms. He also collaborates as professor and tutor for Deusto Business School. He has worked as a strategic consultant to senior management in Mckinsey & Co to advise industrial and ITC fi rms in Business Development and Strategy (Europe, Latin America). Director of Development Strategy and Regulation of Endesa Europe between 2006 and 2009. He was also a member of the Steering Committee of this society and served as CEO of various subsidiaries. Experience in business valuation and M & A activity at an international level, Jose Pablo has been a member of the Board of Directors of international companies. Jose Pablo holds a degree in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, won the "War and Rubio" as number three in the promotion and Second National Award for University Studies.
Marcos Gómez Jimenez
Founding partner of Orbita97, innovation and creativity organization consultancy fi rms working for Novartis, Panasonic, Telefónica Internacional, Cuatrecasas Abogados, Jazztel, Grupo Ferrer, Kampio, ?la Caixa?, Bristol&Mayers and Bankinter, and Director of innovation process introduction programmes for groups of SMEs. He has managed the creation of various technological incubators and an advisor on innovation policies for the autonomous governments of Catalonia, Valencia and Cantabria, among others. He is a Director and Co-founder of Software Recognition Pattern and of CRTC. He has published numerous specialized articles and papers. At ESADE, he also participates in Innovation forums such as Agbar; Seminar for General Managers on Innovation and Creativity: International forum for the future prospective with experts of international prestige from Cornell, Stanford, Yale, CSIC, Club of Rome, among others.
Francisco González Bree
Francisco works as Academic Director of the MBI and CMO at Anboto named the World´s Best Start-up at Innovate!Summit 2010. Cool Vendor in CRM 2011 Gartner. Red Herring 100 Europe Winner. European Seal
of e-Excellence 2011, Europe's Prime Award in Innovation Marketing. His work focuses on semantics and artifi cial intelligence applied to Customer Engagement. Previously his work focused on Technology Systems, Interfaces and Devices working for over 15 years in managerial positions (RBS, Computershare and Wincor Nixdorf) and Tutor at ESADE (Program for Owner-Managers). BSBA from Saint Louis University, MBA from the Edinburgh University, MBI from Deusto Business School, PDP from ESADE, DBA
from Kingston Business School and Chartered Marketer status by CIM. As an artist he has done several exhibitions (oil painting, photography, collages).
Bart Kamp
As Head of ORKESTRA's Strategy Department, Bart is in charge of coordinating and implementing the Department's research agenda, which focuses notably on: innovation and internationalization strategies of private businesses. In addition to his work for ORKESTRA, Bart is a lecturer in strategic management of start-ups at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He is also a member of the editorial board to Industrial Marketing Management (Elsevier Science); the fi fth most infl uential marketing journal in the world. Bart has acted as researcher and consultant on e.g. innovation policy, industrial competitiveness, (foreign) investment climate, and regional development issues for the European Commission, and for governmental organizations and multinationals from various European countries. Bart has extensively authored on market imperfections and support policies in the fi eld of transport and infrastructure development, innovation affairs, and international business and inter-organizational networking. He has published in refereed journals and has brought out several books on these topics.
Oswaldo Lorenzo
Oswaldo Lorenzo is professor of Operations and Information Systems in Deusto Business School. He was previously professor of Operations and Technology at IE Business School. He has been guest professor and visiting scholar in Manchester Business School, INCAE, IESA, Tec de Monterrey and Bourdeaux School of Management. He has advised a number of companies in Europe and Latin America. He has written papers and articles that have been published in journals like California Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Communications of Association for Information Systems. He is author of the book Long Conversation: Maximizing Business Value from IT Investments, recently published by Palgrave McMillan.
Edurne Magro
Edurne Magro is a Researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness (Spain). Prior to joining Orkestra, she has ten years of experience in working on European, national and regional projects related to innovation and competitiveness at Tecnalia. Edurne´s primary research interests are in innovation systems and policy, the evaluation of public policies and policy learning processes, themes in which she has coordinated research projects and written several academic articles. Edurne has a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Deusto and is about to defend her doctoral thesis on the evaluation of innovation policies.
Tim Minshall
Tim Minshall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management and coordinator of the Technology Enterprise Group. His research and teaching interests are focused on open innovation, funding of innovation and university industry technology transfer. He is also a nonexecutive director of St John's Innovation Centre Ltd, Cambridge. Prior to joining the University in 2002 he was a fulltime member of the management team of St John's Innovation Centre Ltd. He has managed a series of projects funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support the start-up and growth innovation. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Aston University, and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department. of new technology ventures, and to provide analysis of different systems for supporting technological innovation. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Aston University, and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Lourdes Moreno
Currently Lourdes collaborates as adviser in several companies and she belongs to several Boards of
Directors. Also manager for Business Angel network inn BAC+. As a practitioner Lourdes has worked over 15 years in investment banking in London and she was responsible for managing the area of structured fi nance in Europe. Lourdes has also worked for JP Morgan in the areas of securities, mergers and acquisitions. Currently she collaborates as adviser in several companies. She belongs to several Boards of Directors. She collaborates as guest speaker in numerous congresses. Lourdes has a fi rst degree in Economic and Managerial Sciences from the University of Deusto, MSc from the University Of Sussex (United Kingdom) and MBA from INSEAD.
Mikel Navarro
Mikel Navarro is Senior Researcher at Orkestra's Territory, Innovation and Cluster Division. Mikel Navarro is a lecturer in economics at the Deusto Business School. He specializes n industrial competitiveness and regional innovation systems and has published fi fteen books and around fi fty articles and scientifi c collaborations. He is a lecturer on Spanish and world economics at the graduate level, and an economic environment and regional innovation systems lecturer in the master's and doctorate programmes at the Deusto Business School. He is also the director and lecturer of Orkestra's course "Microeconomics of Competitiveness" (MOC). He previously served as the vice-dean and director of the Department of Economics at the ESTE Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and the academic director of the Basque Institute of Competitiveness.
Carlos Osorio
Carlos Osorio is professor and founding director of thevMaster on Innovation Program at Adolfo Ibanez School of Management in Chile. His work focuses on innovation processes, design thinking based management, and
architecture of complex socio-technical systems. He is affi liated with the Berkman Centre for Internet and
Society at Harvard Law School, and was visiting research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Boston, US. An engineer by training, Carlos holds a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy from MIT and, as a Fulbright Scholar, earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Davide Parrilli
Davide is Reader in Economics at the University of Deusto and Senior Research Fellow at Orkestra's Territory, Innovation and Cluster Division. Davide is also Director of the doctorate programme in 'business competitiveness and economic development' at the University of Deusto in collaboration with Orkestra. In the past, he worked as a tenured Lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK (2005-2008), Lecturer at the University of Ferrara, Italy (2001-2005), and Researcher and Research Director of Nitlapan, UCA, Managua (1996-2001). He served as advisor for several international organizations, and has published numerous articles in international journals and edited volumes on subjects related to SME development, Clusters and Innovation systems. Davide holds a PhD in economics and industrial development policy from the University of Birmingham, a Master in Development Studies from IDS, Sussex University, a Master in Economics from the University of Turin.
Jaideep Prabhu
Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB). Prior to his current position, Jaideep Prabhu was Professor of Marketing and Director of Research at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London; University Lecturer and University Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Cambridge Judge Business School.His research interests are in international business, marketing, strategy and innovation. Specifi c interests include: cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in hightechnology contexts such as banking, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; the role of fi rm culture in driving innovation in fi rms across nations; how multinational fi rms organise their innovation activities worldwide; the forces that drive R&D location decisions and the factors that infl uence the performance implications of these decisions; the internationalisation of fi rms from emerging markets; and innovation in emerging markets. BTech (IIT Delhi), PhD (Univ. of Southern California).
Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi
Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi is Professor of Strategy and the Academic Director at Adolfo Ibañez School of Management. Previously senior executive with CEMEX, and John Deere. He has just spent 2 years in Spain, as the designer and Managing Director of the think-tank ORKESTRA - The Basque Institute of Competitiveness, in the Basque Country- Spain. He has written several articles for Harvard Business School Publishing with a worldwide impact, which have been cited extensively and reprinted in several languages. Consultant and speaker with some of the Fortune 500. Alejandro has a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Systems Dynamics, ITESM, M.S. Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and Ph.D. in Strategy and Complexity Theory from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Enric Segarra
Enric is certifi ed by Harvard Business School as a participant-centred learning facilitator. He began his career working as Product Manager for BBVA and Hewlett Packard in Production, Logistics and Finance, supporting New Product Development and Marketing. Managing Director of Geraplant Associats and Member of the board of directors of CORMA SCCL. He joined BuenaIdea, a consulting fi rm on creativity and innovation, as strategic partner. Teaching at ESADE as Director of Professional Masters in Operations and most recently as the Director of the Leadership Development Programmes. Enric teaches Operations Management, Creativity and Innovation in several programmes. He delivered programmes for large multinationals. He has taught at ICDA (Argentina), FAE (Brazil), ORT (Uruguay), BMI (Lithuania) and EGE (Portugal). Visiting Professor at the Art Center College of Design (ACCD) in California. Enric holds a degree in Business Science, an MBA from ESADE, and a degree in Business Administration from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
Chris Shippley
Chris Shipley is a leading technology and product analyst. Best known as the executive producer of the DEMO
Conferences for IDG Executive Forums, Shipley has helped technology companies bring more than 1,000 new products to market since 1996. As a founding partner and editorial director in Guidewire Group, she consults with emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe to identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market. Fortune Small Business Magazine placed Shipley on its "Top 10 Minds in Small Business," and the San Jose Business Journal named her a "Woman of Distinction." She has often been cited as a leading infl uencer by Marketing Computers magazine. Shipley has covered personal technology since 1984 and has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology and consumer media. She is currently authoring a book on the social impact of technology-driven change. Shipley holds BAs in Literature and Communication Arts from Allegheny College and pursues knowledge and understanding relentlessly.
Jennifer Stack
Manager of International Markets at Tecnalia?s Innovation Systems Business Unit. Project Leader of a study for the E-Inclusion Unit of the European Commission on the Assistive Technology ICT Industry Europe. She has been the project leader at numerous strategic projects including the definition and elaboration of the Strategic Plan for a group of 7 companies with combined sales of over 70 euro million. Senior Consultant at IKEI and Group OTEIC in San Sebastian. Project Team Leader in Strategy & Business Development dept in Cargill US. Marketing Department at SAP Japan and consultant at Price Waterhouse Japan. Jennifer holds a First degree of Arts in Psychology and Literature from Rutgers University and Master of Business Administration from Kellog School of Management. She has several publications and conference attendance.
Chander Velu
Lecturer in Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School. Previously Chander has worked as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton in London. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Chander has held visiting scholar appointments at Columbia and MIT, as well as an FME Fellowship at Judge Business School. His research interests are in marketing strategy and innovation; antecedents and consequences of business model innovation, product and process innovation; innovation in network industries. BSc (Univ. of Southampton), MPhil, PhD (Univ. of Cambridge), ACA.
Bettina Von Stamm
Director & Catalyst of Innovation Leadership Forum. For the past 20 years Bettina has been an independent thinker at the boundary between business and academia where she is living her aspiration, which is to work in the field of her passion, innovation, with academic rigour, constantly keeping practical relevance in mind. During her independent career she has always placed great emphasis on the combination of research, teaching, writing, and working with large companies, believing that each activity feeds into and supports the others. Her writings include three books, The Future of Innovation (Dr Bettina von Stamm and Dr Anna Trifi lova) (Gower, 2009); www.thefutureofinnovation.org. Managing Innovation Design & Creativity (Wiley, 2008, 2nd ed) and The Innovation Wave (Wiley, 2002). Bettina has a «diplom-Ingenieur» der Architektur from Fachhochschule Kiel, MBA from London Business School and PhD from London Business School.
Shai Vyakarnam
Shai is Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL). He started his working career in small companies, leaving to complete his MBA and PhD at Cranfi eld School of Management, where he stayed on the faculty for ten years, before taking up a Chair in Enterprise at Nottingham Business School. Shai has both academic and business interests. His current research includes work on social capital, opportunity recognition (See The Innovative Brain, Nature November 2008, co-author with Prof Barbara Sahakian) and entrepreneurial learning. He has published fi ve books and several papers on entrepreneurship. He has published fi ve books and several papers on entrepreneurship. He has consulted widely with policy makers and his most recent work was on Entrepreneurship Education for the World Economic Forum (January 2009). He currently holds the Otto Monsted Guest Professorship at Aarhus School of Business in Entrepreneurship, Denmark. He is Senior Member at both Darwin College and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, UK.
James Wilson
James Wilson is a Senior Researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness (Spain) and Lecturer at the Deusto Business School, University of Deusto (Spain). He has previously held a post as Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and has taught at various universities in Finland, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Spain and the UK. James´s primary research interests are in policy-relevant analysis of regional competitiveness and socio-economic development processes, including issues related to governance, networks/clusters, policy evaluation and the benchmarking of socio-economic progress. He has published conceptual and applied analysis of these issues in a wide range of international peer-reviewed journals and academic books, and has participated in various international research projects. James has a PhD in commerce (University of Birmingham, UK), MSocSci in economics (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and BSc in economics (University of Warwick, UK).
