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Albertina Dias is the co-founder and
chairman of Modelling Innovation Sustainability
and Technologies (MIST). MIST (www.mist.pt)
is a non-profit association structured to enable
the production of high-level research activities,
working closely with the local and regional
authorities, academia and business entities. It
aims to gather valuable information, knowledge
and wisdom for organizations and individuals.
MIST is focused not only on Knowledge
Triangle Integration (KTI) but also on
concretely addressing the challenges of
unemployment and future work in the context
of automation, poverty reduction, water and
climate change, urban waste management or
transports. These represent just a short list of
very good reasons to investigate, and to
develop innovative solutions, in order to
respond to these global questions, and to design new business models that
address environmental issues.
Albertina founded Solutions by Heart, Ltd. (SbH) in 2005, and is currently
the CEO. SbH is an audiovisual and multimedia company, whose product was
one of the very first educational applications based on the then novel
augmented reality technology. Her experience with the miBook© tool
(multimedia interactive book) for enhanced learning based on Augmented
Reality followed through with good interactive team intervention, demonstrated
strategic management skills, negotiation abilities at international level, and a
proactive and self-starting way to achieve ambitious objectives. In particular, the
ability to comprehend and deal with different innovation systems in order to
launch this innovative tool.
As a University Professor, Albertina Dias was the Director of the
Department of Business Science at Atlantic University in Lisbon-Cascais,
Portugal during 2014 and 2015. She is the author of this institution’s strategic
plan for foreign direct investment, and has designed and represented the
institution during its negotiations with the Portuguese ministry for the approval of
degrees (management and economics, and materials’ engineering degrees and
master degrees). Among several academic positions, in different universities in
Portugal and in Spain, she has qualified as a Coordinating-Professor of
Economics and Industrial Management (2009-2012). Since 2005 Albertina has
been a principal researcher at GITICE research group of Huelva University
(Andaluzia, Spain) in the scientific domain of Economics and the research line

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of ICT. In this institution she was undertaking research on innovative tools for
regional economic development. Between 2009 and 2012 she was
Coordinating-Professor of the university degree on Business Management at
Piaget Institute (Lisbon, Portugal). Among several academic positions, in
different universities in Portugal and in Spain, Prof. Albertina Dias qualified as a
professional with more than 15 years of work experience, in the areas of
Economics, Management and ICT.
Since 2008, Albertina has been working actively in the knowledge
triangle, collaborating closely as a full member with the NCP (New Club of
Paris) and, with the OISPG (Open Innovation and Strategy Group). As an
entrepreneur and founder of several companies and NGOs she is an
international speaker, covering topics from several areas such as: open
innovation; change management; entrepreneurship; sustainable industry
management, waste management and circular economy; inclusive societal
business citizenship and sustainable rehabilitation.
Albertina is also a Reviewer-Evaluator Expert for the European Commission
under specific programs in the domain of Economics and ICT (4-6 times per
year) and she maintains her collaboration as an Invited-Professor of the Degree
and Master Degree in Business Management at the Atlantic University.
In the past, Albertina Dias has held several positions of responsibility in
companies such as CEO at PB Holding (Film Industry, 17 companies
comprising production, distribution and exhibition), Oracle Portugal (Internal
Auditor, Financial Analysis and Business Management Control), Allianz
Portugal (Financial Analyst), and Cap Gemini Portugal (Project Manager).
Under the Program Equal e-Change (EU funded) she has participated since
2005 in the presentation, demonstration and validation of innovative products
and services in the areas of employment and audiovisual and multimedia tools.
She is responsible for the audiobook library of the Economists’ College in PT
and has produced several audiobooks under the economic special issues; such
as, the “Portuguese Governmental Budget-2006”, “2nd Annual Conference of
Economists-2007”, “SCUTS-An Economic Analysis, 2005”, and others.
Her academic background includes three principal scientific degrees (pre-
Bologna):
- Ph.D. on Business and Economics (Huelva University-Spain);
- Master in Statistics and Information Management (Nova University,
Lisbon-Portugal);
- Degree in Economics (Nova University, Lisbon-Portugal).
She is the author of a considerable number of academic theses, articles, papers
and books, including the following recent ones:

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- Dias, A. and Murteira, F. (2016). Strategic Innovation Management – The
real cases under Portuguese Government and Ministries 1969-2015 (not
published yet).
- Dias, A. and Bror Salmelin (2016). Living labs and Open Innovation in
European context. (Springer-Verlag, inprint)
- Dias, A. et al (2015). IT audit in the Spanish business sector: longitudinal
analysis (2001‐2011). International Journal of Information Systems and
Software Engineering for Big Companies (IJISEBC)
- Dias, A. (2015). Modelling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies.
ISBN-978-989-20-6062-0.
- Dias, A. et al (2011). The Wisdom Innovation Model - adjusting new
insights and hosting new perspectives to Human Augmented Reality.
Enterprise Information Systems - CENTERIS, 2011. ENTERprise
Information Systems – aligning technology, organizations and people.
Springer-Verlag, book of the CCIS series (Communications in Computer
and Information Science), Vol. 219. Listed in the ISI proceedings index.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/pn77384q10889118/
- Dias, A. et al (2011). From 2D to augmented reality: Findings from a
Delphi study on innovative media tool. Information Systems and
Technologies - CISTI, 2011. Full paper, pp. 496. Abstract available in
IEEE Xplore digital library:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5962051
- Dias, A. (2009). Technology Enhanced Learning and Augmented Reality:
An Application on Multimedia Interactive Books. International Business
And Economics Review, 1(1).
Retrieved from http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/iber/article/view/862
Her recent research activity has involved studies on the Economics of
Innovation, Strategic management, and ICT governance. Tina believes that
High-tech industry, entrepreneurs, civil participants, and academia (quadruple
helix) should not only discuss the facts and concepts but also collaborate
together under common business platforms aligned with research activities for
advancing new innovation applied economics and policy experimental
modelling. Currently, her research interests focus on modelling innovation
sustainability and technologies looking forward to capturing demand-side
attention and interest (policy-making).