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Esteve Almirall (born 1959) is the director of the Center for Innovation Cities and profesor of Innovation in ESADE Business School. Founder of the Master in Management Science - Business Analytics (MIBA) in ESADE Business School, that was ranked #5 in the world in 2019, after only 2 years of life, by QS Business Master Rankings Top Universities Ranking 2019, Almirall is a researcher and keynote speaker in fields like Smart cities, Open Innovation, Technologies, AI, Complexity and Data Science.
Education and experience[editar]
Almirall holds a PhD in Management Sciences (ESADE) , a MRes in Management Sciences, a MCIS, DEA and MRes in Artificial Intelligence (UPC) [1]. Moreover, he has a MBA and a PDD from IESE, a Diploma in Marketing from UC Berkeley and a GCPCL Diploma from Harvard Business School. Esteve Almirall is passionate about the intersection between technology and innovation and how IT is changing the way we innovate from the individual inventor to ecosystems, from owing and buying innovations to benefiting from innovations created by others by aligning incentives and motivations. Most of his career has been devoted to Information Technologies, especially in consulting, banking and finances where he worked for more than 20 years in executive and board level positions in IS, Organization and Marketing. As an entrepreneur, he participated and founded several start-ups in the field.
He is very active in fields such as Smart Cities, Innovation Ecosystems, Innovation in the Public Sector or User Innovation (particularly Living Labs). He has coordinated several large EU competitive projects and participated in more than ten of them as main researcher. He is often busy collaborating and organizing workshops, Open Data Challenges and conferences in these areas.
Academic career[editar]
Almirall is currently teaching Competing with AI and Cloud in ESADE Business School, Complexity and Open Innovation. He also teaches Python, Julia, Machine Learning, Cloud Platforms and has an accreditation from AWS as Amazon Web Services Academy Accredited Ambassador & Associate and AWS Solutions Architect since 2017.He has been serving as Professor in EPFL (Lausanne), UPF (Barcelona), among others during the last years.
Research and publications[editar]
Almirall has spent much of his professional life researching and has 79 papers published in research journals, including top level journals such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Academy of Management, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Technology Innovation Management Review, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, California Management Review, NESTA, and Government Information and Management Information Systems, among others. Likewise, he is regularly a member of Courts for Doctoral Thesis and Master's degrees. As a researcher, this academic has almost 4,000 citations in Google Scholar:
- Artificial Intelligence as Augmenting Automation: Implications for Employment. FT Tschang, E Almirall. Academy of Management Perspectives (2020).
- Data ecosystems for protecting European citizens’ digital rights. I Calzada, E Almirall, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (2020).
- Cuando un algoritmo decide por y sobre ti.... E Almirall, Harvard Deusto business review, 50-52 (2020).
- ¿Cómo sobrevivir al tsunami de la IA?. E Almirall, Harvard Deusto Business Review (2019).
- Optimizing and Satisficing: The Interplay Between Platform Architecture and Developers’ Design Strategies on Platform Performance. S Brunsbricker, E Almirall, A Majchrzak, Management Information Systems Quarterly (2019).
- Transparency in policy making: A complexity view. S Brunswicker, LP Priego, E Almirall. Government Information Quarterly 36 (3), 571-591 (2019).
- Barcelona’s grassroots-led urban experimentation: Deciphering the ‘data commons’ policy scheme. I Calzada, E Almirall. Social Science Research Network (2019).
- Transparency in Policy Making: Guiding Citizens Towards Greater Collective Welfare. S Brunswicker, E Almirall, MJ Lee. Government Information Quarterly (2018).
- Inteligencia artificial y competitividad. E Almirall. Harvard Deusto business review, 45-46 (2018).
- Researching Open Innovation: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Settings for Future Research. M Bogers, J Sims, A Radziwon, M Mahdad, GP Romanova, E Almirall, SM Xu, Academy of Management (2018).
- Cocreating value from open data: from incentivizing developers to inducing cocreation in open data innovation ecosystems. S Brunswicker, A Majchrzak, E Almirall, R Tee. World Scientific Book Chapters, 141-162 (2018).
- Creativity in Innovation. C McPhee, M Westerlund, S Leminen, AG Nyström, E Almirall, M Lee, ...Technology Innovation Management Review (2018).
- Intervention intermediaries flourish: matching firms with solutions to complex needs. T Bakici, E Almirall. Journal of Business Strategy (2017).
- Robots, drones y máquinas inteligentes en las empresas. ¿Son el nuevo capital laboral?: Cambio y transformación en empresas digitales y tradicionales. E Almirall. Harvard Deusto business review, 37-38 (2017).
- The open innovation research landscape: Established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis. M Bogers, AK Zobel, A Afuah, E Almirall, S Brunswicker, L Dahlander. Industry and Innovation 24 (1), 8-40 (2017).
- Smart cities at the crossroads: New tensions in city transformation. E Almirall, J Wareham, C Ratti, P Conesa, F Bria, A Gaviria, A Edmondson. California Management Review 59 (1), 141-152 (2016)
- The city as a lab: Open innovation meets the collaborative economy. B Cohen, E Almirall, H Chesbrough. California Management Review 59 (1), 5-13 (2017).
- Landscape and roadmap of future internet and smart cities. Hans Schaffers, Nicos Komninos, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Marc Pallot, Brigitte Trousse, Esa Posio, Joana Fernadez, Hendrik Hielkema, Patrizia Hongisto, Esteve Almirall, Tuba Bakici, Julia Lopez Ventura, Dave Carter (2012).
- Open data and civic apps: first-generation failures, second-generation improvements M Lee, E Almirall, J Wareham. Communications of the ACM 59 (1), 82-89 (2015).
- Open innovation requires integrated competition-community ecosystems: Lessons learned from civic open innovation. E Almirall, M Lee, A Majchrzak Business horizons 57 (3), 391-400 (2014)
- Living Labs: arbiters of mid-and ground-level innovation. Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Wareham. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (2011).
- A smart city initiative: the case of Barcelona. T Bakıcı, E Almirall, J Wareham. Journal of the knowledge economy 4 (2), 135-148 (2013)
- Mapping living labs in the landscape of innovation methodologies. E Almirall, M Lee, J Wareham. Technology innovation management review 2 (9) (2012).