FRIDA

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM

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The University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, was founded in 1088 and is considered to be the oldest university in Western Europe. The University of Bologna successfully participated in FP6 with a total of 103 projects funded by the European Commission in the different specific programmes. At the University of Bologna research activities are promoted and co-ordinated by departments autonomously.
The Department of Management of the University of Bologna was founded in 1983 by merging two previous institutes. According to an international peer review that took place in December 2003, the Department of Management of the University of Bologna is one of the best two Departments in the field of Management studies in Italy and among the first 50 Departments of Management in Europe. It is organized in nine different research groups: Management of Technology and Innovation; Corporate Finance; Financial Institution Management; Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and Accountability; Organization Studies; Marketing; Strategic Management; Management and Innovation of Arts Organizations; Commodity Production Science. The Department includes 29 full professors,  associate professors and 22 assistant professors; the administrative and technical staff includes 13 people.
The professors and researchers of the Department teach in undergraduate and graduate courses at the Schools of Engineering, Economics, Management, Statistics of the University of Bologna. Moreover the Department organizes two PhD programs, the PhD in “Business Administration” and the PhD in “Financial Markets and Intermediaries” and.is amongst the founders and main sponsors of Alma Graduated School, the Post-graduate Business School of the University of Bologna.

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Gianni Lorenzoni is Professor Emeritus of Strategy at the University of Bologna. He is the President of Alamweb, the post graduate Business School of the University of Bologna and the President of AlmaCube, the business incubator of the University of Bologna, founded jointly with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna and Fondazione Alma Mater to promote and sustain entrepreneurship in the local university system. He has also served as Vice President of the Italian Academy of Management and Director of the Road Map project of the Italian Industry Association (Rome), for the development of technology policies for SMEs. Abroad he is member of the Strategic Management Society and of the Academy of Management. His research is focused on strategic management and organizational network forms, the role of lead firms in triggering local competitiveness, as well as knowledge creation and transfer. Professor Lorenzoni’s most recent work has been devoted to strategic alliances and partnerships. His publications have appeared in such journals as Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, The Journal of Business Venturing, California Management Review, Long Range Planning, The Journal of Management and Governance. He was a visiting scholar atStanford University and at New York University and visiting professor at Texas A&M University. He isalso been a member of the International Advisory Board of various multinational consulting companies,working for Fortune 500 clients (1983-2006).

MORESimone Ferriani

Simone Ferriani is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Bologna. He received his PhD from the Management Department of the University of Bologna, with a concentration in interorganizational networks and small firms clusters. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and at the Stern School of Business, New York University. After obtaining the PhD he received a Marie Curie Fellowship from the EU to do research at Cass Business School, City University London and a Research Fellowship to work at the Centre for Technology Management of the University of Cambridge. He is also an AIM Fellow and a lifetime member of Clare-Hall College in Cambridge. His research output include publications in such journal as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, The Journal of Management and Governance, as well as several contributions to international books. He has also authored two books.

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET KAISERSLAUTERN

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contributes to the FRIDA project by analyzing the role of Anchor Firms in the evolution of cross-regional networks. Since the founding of the chair in 2006, the research of the chair is built upon conceptual as well as empirical foundations. A current area of empirical research analyses the evolutionary dynamics in young and knowledge intensive industries. Prior research projects investigated aspects of strategic alliances at the firm level, entry and exit rates at the population level and the structure and dynamics of networks at the interorganizational level.

MOREAndreas Al-Laham

The head of the chair and lead investigator in the FRIDA project is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Al-Laham. Before taking this position he was a Visiting Professor for Strategic Management and Organization Theory at the J.L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in Canada from the year 2000 to 2002. From 2002 till 2004 he held a professorship for International and Strategic Management at the SIMT Business School, University of Stuttgart. After the assignment in Stuttgart, Dr. Al-Laham worked as a Professor for General Management and International Strategy at the CASS Business School, City University of London, U.K. (2004-2006). Up till today he still is a Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School. Professor Al-Laham has published extensively in the leading international journals in International Management, Strategic Management and Innovation Management, such as Journal of Business Venturing, Management International review and British Journal of Management. His research builds upon longitudinal data analysis in order to capture the evolution of dynamic processes and the interaction between organizational and network development. The accumulated research experience is highly valuable in the FRIDA project when analyzing key actors, their relationships within regional clusters and the importance of cross-regional connections for individual firms and the cluster as a whole.

UNIVERSITE PIERRE MENDES FRANCE

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GAEL is joint research unit between INRA and University Pierre Mendes France, managed by INRA. It is specialized in industrial dynamics and experimental economics. The team dedicated to innovation studies focuses on the dynamics of new leading sciences and technologies. It aims to explore the emergence, the economic development, governance and growth of high technologies such as biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. GAEL analyses the emergence of new industries and the conditions under which these industries can develop. It also focuses on the industrial organisation of emerging industries, the respective roles of large firms and start-ups.
On biotechnologies, GAEL explores the European biotechnology industry development within several European projects on biotechnologies (EBIS, Biopolis, etc.). Since 1998, GAEL has become widely recognized as a group which is able to build original databases on firms and researchers and to conduct research through statistical and econometric analysis. Specific databases on firms, founders and researchers have been developed to address specific question about firm growth, the network structure and the geographic agglomeration processes.
UMR GAEL had lead Nanodistrict project within PRIME Network of Excellence. GAEL was in charge of the integration of existing databases on publication and patents. It also developed an original database on firms involved in nanotechnologies. GAEL has accumulated extensive experience in the characterization and analysis of emerging industries in France and in Europe. GAEL also develops new indicators to analyse the evolution of emerging industries. Its activities suppose a vigorous publications program for ongoing dissemination of research and findings.

MOREVincent Mangematin

42 years old, Vincent Mangematin is research Professor at GAEL. His research stands at the intersection of Strategic Management, Management of Knowledge and Innovation. He analyses the dynamics of knowledge creation and circulation in high tech industries and the related strategies of organisations involved in knowledge production. Mainly based on empirical analysis in biotechnology and nanotechnology industries, he explores the organisation of research and innovation in High Tech industries and the determinants of firm creation and growth. He coordinated the Special Issue of Research Policy on “Emerging Nanotechnologies” in 2007 and the Nanodistrict Project. In addition, he is a member of the executive committee of PRIME Network of Excellence.

The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice

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The Karol Adamiecki University of Economics was founded in 1937 with the primary faculty of industrial organization. Now the University has three faculties: management, economics, insurance and finance. Since the inception till nowadays it is closely tied to the needs of the regional economy, on the one hand totalling 12,500 students on average, on the other through research in the fields of restructuring and regional development, knowledge management, entrepreneurship. Throughout the 90’ties research focused on the needs of regional and industrial restructuring due to major changes in the economy. Further the research raises the issues of development through entrepreneurship, cooperative structures, knowledge management and many others carried out by 416 academic staff. These challenges are best mirrored in the University’s mission: “Our mission is to provide higher education to economists and managers in order to meet the needs of the economy, public administration and nongovernmental organizations in the conditions of individualization and internationalization of studies and labour market. The full teaching cycle covers bachelor-level studies, master-level studies, postgraduate and doctoral studies. Our University carries out research projects on a national and international scale in such fields as economics and finance, management and informatics, business and international relations, regional development and spatial economy, investment and real estate. It delivers studies and conducts research on the basis of knowledge and experience gained while functioning in the strongly urbanized, postindustrial region of Upper Silesia.”
The University has gathered extensive experience in research structures and processes occurring under the circumstances of restructuring economy, fostering economic development and managing large organizational and interorganizational structures. This effort assume intensive dissemination through publications, seminars, academic lectures, conferences and publishing guidelines for local/regional authorities.

MOREWojciech Czakon

Wojciech Czakon, 32 years old, is full Professor at the faculty of Management of the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. His research concentrates on the field of strategic management, especially on the impact of value chain configuration on business efficiency, and on the dynamics of interorganizational relationships. He unveils the intertwining of deliberate cooperative arrangements formation with their emergence through social structures and processes. His previous works on polish ground has encompassed restructuring of industries.

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

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SPRU is the largest Science Technology and Innovation Policy research unit in the world and is leading international academic organisation researching innovation and regional development. It currently employs 45 full time researchers, and has approximately 68 FTE PhD students and 60 MSc students. SPRU was founded 40 years ago and has accumulated over 1,000 person-years of research. Recent analysis of 2005 ISI citations places Sussex as the top UK university in both economics and management. In the area of innovation management, Linton’s (2004) ‘Ranking Business Schools on the Management of Technology’, places SPRU as second worldwide, among 99 institutes outside of the US according to various publication and citation indicators: When compared with US institutes SPRU ranks second, above MIT (third) and just below Rensselaer Polytechnic (first). Its research was ranked 5 in the last UK RAE exercise and recent bibliometric analysis shows it is a central node in the global academic network researching innovation.
SPRU has an inter-disciplinary policy focus to its research and has been responsible for a number of the major research and policy developing in EU innovation policy – for example the National Systems of Innovation and ‘Innovation Gap’ frameworks. As a consequence, the SPRU team will be taking the lead in designing and disseminating policy-relevant outputs from the project. Following a process of international peer review SPRU was recently awarded a recent £9.4m Joint Infrastructure Fund award for the Freeman Centre, a purpose built, state of the art facility designed for academics to co-produce policy relevant research with industry, policy makers and local development organisations. SPRU has a strong team of researchers working on regional development and together with colleagues from CENTRIM (with whom SPRU shares the Freeman Centre) has close links to regional development agencies (RDAs) such as Yorkshire Forward, the Scottish Executive and, more locally, with the South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA).
SPRU’s research tradition combines quantitative (often bibliometric) methods with detailed qualitative case studies. The quality of these combined methods has been recognised through the award of one of the 3 ESRC Innovation Research Centres, as well as a Energy Policy Research Centre and a joint SPRU-IDS STEPS Research Centre. Two of the top journals publishing research on regional innovation patterns – Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change, are edited within SPRU and the third Regional Studies will be added in 2008. SPRU has a large international network that will be drawn on to support the project and provide strategic advice and links to firms.

MOREPaul Nightingale

Dr. Nightingale will be joint lead investigator on this project and is a Senior Research Fellow at SPRU. He was originally an industrial R&D chemist and has a DPhil in Technology Policy and an MSc in Innovation management (both from Sussex). He has previous experience acting on the advisory panel for the DTI foresight initiative on Intelligent Infrastructure and led the recent NESTA ‘Innovation Gap’ research project. He is editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, was previously acting editor of Research Policy, is on the Postdoctoral Fellowship board of the ESRC, and has given a Strategic Thinkers Seminar at the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. His recent work has developed new frameworks for understanding high-tech innovation and he has published widely on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in Research Policy, Nature Biotechnology, Trends in Biotechnology, and Industrial and Corporate Change. He has been successfully running research projects full time since 1997 and was recently awarded a £1.2m EPSRC research project on innovative funding of high-tech firms in the EU. As lead investigator he will be responsible for leading the case studies, validating the methods and training the post-doc.

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA

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The University of Catania, established in the year 1434, is a 573-year-old academic institution and has today more than 60.000 students; courses and seminars are given by over 2.000 professors in the 12 Schools and faculties, which the University is composed of. In 1997, the University has established an Advanced School for Excellence in Science Development, with in-house students and courses at all levels (undergraduates, masters, PhD), which is very selective and admits only a few outstanding students each year . The Department “Impresa, Culture, Società” of the University of Catania embraces three main research and teaching areas, which have been since its onset in 2000 its key ‘scientific souls’: the Management and Accounting Area, the Historical and Social Area; the Foreign Languages Area. The Department gathers more than 30 professors at different stages of their academic career, 10 post-doctoral fellows, and 4 staff employees. The Department also offers a PhD Programme in Business Economics & Management, which started its operations in 1990 and is highly recognized in Italy, and has supported the educational activities of a series of Masters Degree Programmes in E-Business, in Tourism Management, and in Corporate Finance. At the moment, the PhD programme enrols 17 doctoral students, who come from Catania and, as well, from other universities of Italy’s Mid-South regions. Within the Department, the Management Area is largest in terms of quantity of professors and scholars. Management researchers are currently engaged in several research projects carried out in cooperation with local institutions, other Italian (e.g., Bocconi University, IULM University, Milan Polytechnic, University of Cagliari, University of Sannio, University of Naples “Federico II”, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) and international universities (e.g., Arizona State University, Cass School of Business in London, University of Florida, Drexel University in Philadelphia, New York University, Texas A&M University, University of Maryland, Wharton School of Business) and research centres and private firms. Among the others, we recall the spin-off project in collaboration with STMicroelectronics, the study of entrepreneurship in the semiconductors business, the SMEs’ internationalization project with ICE , the Italian Institute for Foreign Commerce, the start-up project with BIC-Business Innovation Center of Sicily; the scrutiny of technological innovation and new business ventures with the Sicilian Scientific and Technological Park; the scrutiny of dynamic capabilities in fast changing environments, and the Masters Programme in E-business.

MOREGiovanni Battista Dagnino

Lead Investigator of the Catania Unit, 41years old, Giovanni Battista Dagnino is Professor of Business Economics and Management at the University of Catania, Italy. He has held visiting positions at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (where he taught Strategy Implementation), The Wharton School of Business, London Business School and IESE Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Catania and MURST. He has recently been co-organizer (with David Audretsch, Rosario Faraci and Bob Hoskisson) of the SMS Special Conference “New Frontiers in Entrepreneurship. Strategy Governance and Evolution”, Catania, May 23-25, 2007 and, in the last 11 years, has been involved in the leadership of more than 15 other academic and scientific venues in management and strategy (conferences, workshops, conference tracks and sessions) around the world. He is currently co-editing special issues of: (a) the Strategic Management Journal on “The Age of Temporary Advantage. Understanding of the Dynamics of Continuous Strategic Change” with Richard D’Aveni (Tuck) and Ken G. Smith (Maryland), (b) the Journal of Management and Governance on “Entrepreneurial Governance” with Rosario Faraci (Catania) and Shaker Zahra (Minnesota), and (c) Management Research on “Stretching the Boundaries of Coopetition” with Daniela Baglieri (Messina), Marco Giarratana (Madrid Carlos III) and Isabel Gutierrez (Madrid Carlos III). His research interests refer to the longitudinal field study of network dynamics, coopetition strategy: theory and practice, the elaboration of a coevolutionary framework which explains the gap bridging process between capability and opportunity space, the evolution of strategy paradigms, and research methodology in strategy and organizations. He is author or editor of seven books (some published, respectively, by Edward Elgar and by Routledge) and his work has appeared in outlets such as Advances in Strategic Management, International Studies of Management and Organization, International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Journal of Management and Governance, Journal of Management History, Journal of Managerial Psychology, International Review of Economics, Review Français de Gestion and Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings.

National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"

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National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (UKR) is one of the oldest and greatest technical universities in Europe and the world. It was founded more than 100 years ago (in 1898) on an initiative of scientific-technical circles and entrepreneurs of Russia and Ukraine in response to needs of industry which developed rapidly at the end of XIX century. There are 20 educational departments, 9 educational-research institutes, 12 research institutes and 13 other scientific subdivisions (design bureaus, engineering centers). 58 Academicians and Corresponding Members, about 2390 professors, senior lecturers work, 40500 students, among them 1600 international students from 46 countries and 500 postgraduates including citizens of other countries study at the University. UKR glory and traditions have been creating by world wide-known scientists In addition to science and technology departments, the new ones have been opened during last 18 years at our university, namely: Management and Marketing, Law, Sociology, Linguistics, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Medical Engineering, Physical Training and Sports. Now the young people have the opportunity to obtain a second education in humanities in addition to technical specialties, and to become qualified interpreters, managers, lawyers, and economists. UKR cooperates fruitfully with 101 technical universities from 38 countries of the world, international organizations (EC, CU, UNDP, UNESCO, UNIDO, WIPO, NATO, EDNES, ICSU, CODATA, Salzburg Seminar); well-known firms (MOTOROLA, SIEMENS, FESTO, SAMSUNG, INTEL and others), take part in international education and scientific projects and programs. In spring 2002 the Verkhovna Rada issued the Law of Ukraine about creation of the techno park “Kyivska Polytechnica”. The peculiarity of the techno park “Kyivska Polytechbnica” is the fundamental unity of three components: science, industry and education, leading to opportunities for constant development and personnel fallow-up. Another advantage is the closer cooperation of our Industrial Marketing Department of UKR with technical departments of university (Department of Aircraft and Space Systems, Department of Electronics, Department of Instrument-making etc). The mission is “search and fulfilment of great innovation projects together with the leading enterprises of Ukraine”.

MORESergiy Solntsev

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Professor. Specializes in Industrial Marketing and Marketing Researches of B2B markets. Has a wide range of scientific publications in Statistics and Theory of Probability, Statistical Methods of Data Handling, Industrial Marketing, Marketing Researches, Marketing Researches of B2B markets.

UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM

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The Chair of Strategic and International Management at the University of Mannheim contributes to the FRIDA project by analyzing the role of Anchor Firms in the evolution of cross-regional networks. From July 2009 on the chair is carrying on the project responsibilities of the University Kaiserslautern in the FRIDA project (change in partners). Since the founding of the chair in 2009, the research of the chair is built upon conceptual as well as empirical foundations. A current area of empirical research analyses the evolutionary dynamics in young and knowledge intensive industries. Prior research projects investigated aspects of strategic alliances at the firm level, entry and exit rates at the population level and the structure and dynamics of networks at the interorganizational level.

MOREAndreas Al-Laham

The head of the chair and lead investigator in the FRIDA project is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Al-Laham. Before taking this position he was a Visiting Professor for Strategic Management and Organization Theory at the J.L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in Canada from the year 2000 to 2002. From 2002 till 2004 he held a professorship for International and Strategic Management at the SIMT Business School, University of Stuttgart. After the assignment in Stuttgart, Dr. Al-Laham worked as a Professor for General Management and International Strategy at the CASS Business School, City University of London, U.K. (2004-2006). Up till today he still is a Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School. From April 2006 till June 2009 Prof. Al-Laham has been chair in International Management at the University of Kaiserslautern. Professor Al-Laham has published extensively in the leading international journals in International Management, Strategic Management and Innovation Management, such as Journal of Business Venturing, Management International review and British Journal of Management. His research builds upon longitudinal data analysis in order to capture the evolution of dynamic processes and the interaction between organizational and network development. The accumulated research experience is highly valuable in the FRIDA project when analyzing key actors, their relationships within regional clusters and the importance of cross-regional connections for individual firms and the cluster as a whole.

CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE ET D’INDUSTRIE DE GRENOBLE/
GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT, CCIG/GEM

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Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is a public institution of Management higher education of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grenoble. It has a long experience of higher education in Business Management, as much for initial training as for continuous education. The Technologic and Intercultural Management has been its development’s axis since its creation in 1984. The GEM’s mission is to be one of the leader European institutions for developing pedagogic innovation, applied research and services to the enterprises. Thanks to the continuous improvement of its academic and professional programmes, GEM seeks to promote its expertise in technologic management and of intercultural management in a globalized economy.

MOREVincent Mangematin

44 years old, Vincent Mangematin is scientific advisor and research Professor at GEM. His research stands at the intersection of Strategic Management, Management of Knowledge and Innovation. He analyses the dynamics of knowledge creation and circulation in high tech industries and the related strategies of organisations involved in knowledge production. Mainly based on empirical analysis in biotechnology and nanotechnology industries, he explores the organisation of research and innovation in High Tech industries and the determinants of firm creation and growth. He coordinated the Special Issue of Research Policy on “Emerging Nanotechnologies” in 2007 and the Nanodistrict Project. In addition, he is a member of the executive committee of PRIME Network of Excellence.