GLORAD Center for Global R&D and Innovation

GLORAD is the Center for Global R&D and Innovation with offices in St. Gallen (CH), Kaunas (CEE), Moscow (RU), Shanghai (CN), Silicon Valley (USA), and Sao Paulo (LATAM).

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Jobs in G.I.

Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies (STS) @ DTU (Technical University of Denmark)
Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Management (Economia e gestione delle imprese) @ University of Milano-Bicocca
Project manager/ Post Doc for "Future of Learning and Work" (Prof.Dr. Oliver Gassmann)- Institute for Technology Management @ University of St. Gallen
Full-time (Permanent position) Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Strategy / Innovation @ Leonard De Vinci Business School (EMLV)
Full-time (Permanent position) Assistance / Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management @ICN Business School Nancy, Paris, Berlin et Nuremberg
Full-time (Permanent position)- Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation @ Mohammed VI Polytechnic University / Africa Business School
Three 2-year Postdoctoral Positions in Digital Innovation / Information Systems @ Stockholm School of Economics
Tenure-track positions at Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Professor levels @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Asst Prof @ ESMT Berlin, contact Prof Tamer Boyaci
Several doc and postdoc positions in industrial eng&mgt @ Aalto University, Helsinki FI
Policy analyst in innovation @ JRC EC Ispra

Free Stuff

A short intro on GLORAD as published on the University World News website, May 2019

Academic Updates

2021 First half

7-9 April: OIS Research Conference, Online
14 – 16 April: AIB & UKI Chapter Conference, University of Greenwich (ONLINE)
19-23 April: 16th CINet Seminar, Virtual Conference, hosted by Politecnico di Milano
17-21 May: IEEE TEMSCON EUROPE Conference, Virtual Conference and In-Person Event in Dubrovnik (Conditions Permitting)
14-16 June: DRUID21, Toronto, CND
20-23 June: ISPIM, Berlin, DE
29 June- 3 July: AIB 2021, Online

2021 Second half

5-6, 7, 9 July: RADMA PhD Colloquium, Glasgow, UK (online)
7-8 July: R&D Mgt Conf in Glasgow, Scotland
8-10 July: EGOS Conference, VU Amsterdam, NL
30 July-3 Aug: AOM Conference (online)
August (date will be announced later): AIEA-NBER Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Online)
20-24 Aug: IEEE Conference, KTU Kaunas Lithuania
1-3 Sep: IFKAD Conference, Univ of RomaTre, Rome
13-17 Sep: IAMOT Conf. (online)
12-14 Sept: CINET Conference, Gothenburg, SE
14-15 Oct: 7th Cop. Conf. on Emerging market MNCs and OFDI at CBS, Copenhagen, DK
18-20 Oct.: DRUID21 at CBS, Copenhagen, DK
9-10 Dec: 8th World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) Eindhoven, NL

recent GLORAD publications

Prud'homme, D., Tong, T., Han, N., . A stakeholder-based view of the evolution of intellectual property institutions.
Prud'homme, D. Alternative responses to anti-commons: state financing of latecomer patenting.
Borini et al. The Differentiated Role of Organizational Ambidexterity and Organizational Innovation in the Subsidiary Reverse Knowledge Transfer Process
Moraes, Borini, de Miranda. Frugal Innovation in Brazilian Multinationals, in book: Innovation from Emerging Markets
VR Isaac, Borini, de Miranda: Reverse Innovation and the Role of Local Partners in Emerging Markets: The Experience of Foreign Subsidiaries in Brazil
Gassmann, O.; Bader, M. A.; Thompson, M. J. Patent Management, Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation.
Gassmann, O.; Frankenberger, K.; Choudury, M. The Business Model Navigator
Lingens, B.; Miehé, L.; Gassmann, O. The Ecosystem Blueprint: How Firms Shape the Design of an Ecosystem According to the Surrounding Conditions.
Neumann, L.; Winterhalter, S.; Gassmann, O. Market maketh magic – consequences and implications of market choice for frugal innovation.
Palmié, M.; Boehm, J.; Lekkas, C-K.; Parida, V.; Wincent, J.; Gassmann, O. Circular business model implementation: Design choices, orchestration strategies, and transition pathways for resource-sharing solutions.
Schuhmacher, A.; Gatto. A.; Hinder, M.; Kuss, M.; Gassmann, O. The upside of being a digital pharma player, Drug Discovery Today.
Y. Guntzburger, M. Hadenque. Reshaping Higher Education in Management at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Proposal.
Guntzburger, Hadenque, Framing the science-policy interplay: A comprehensive study of a complex relationship.
Prud’homme on the trade war and China’s IP regime in Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
Jin et al. on Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms (Book)
Gassmann et al on Digital Pharma in DDT
Perea et al on Enterprise Social Networking in JET-M
Borini et al on Lifestock Value Chains in Tech in Soc
Podmetina et al on Human Capital for UI in TFSC
Wagner et al on Digital Intrapreneneurship in I&M
Lima, Borini, de Miranda, et al on National culture and OI in IJEIM
Lima, Borini, de Miranda on Frugal Strategy in RIBS
Pereira, Borini, Santos, Oliveira on MNC subsidiary autonomy in J Sci Tech Pol
de Faria, Oliveria, Borini on Public Funding for Innovation in Tech&Soc
Monika Petraite on Developing Innovation Culture in the Baltics.

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Call for papers

Creativity and Innovation Management Special Issue – Call for papers: "Exploring the unknowns of Open Innovation"
Academy of Management- Special Issue "Innovation in family firms: responses to recent developments" (Submission deadline: 15 June 2021)

Viewpoints on Innovation

Monika Petraite on Creativity and Imagination.

Max von Zedtwitz on global R&D in Silicon Valley and Martin Haemmig on Global Venture Capital

Martin Haemmig on Venture Capital and Corporate Innovation

Oliver Gassmann on Business Model Innovation

Simone Corsi on Reverse Innovation

Max von Zedtwitz, Tiago Ratinho, Simone Corsi, Monika Petraite, Ekaterina Vainberg, Marine Hadengue on Global Innovation in the Age of 4th Industrial Revolution