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Innova Institute
Francesc Miralles
May 2010
Innova Institute
• The Innova Institute works with international academic and business
community to study, generate and disseminate knowledge; centered in
the following research lines:
– Innovation and its life cycle: from creativity to product or service delivery to
the market, and how does this relates to firms’ internal and external network.
• Open Innovation, user Innovation and innovation value networks.
– IT Management: how do firms benefit from IT and what is the impact it has on
its performance and competitiveness, how new technologies are adopted and
diffused.
• Social Networks, IT alignment, Culture values and IT adoption.
– Entrepreneurship: how do entrepreneurs identify opportunities, how they
organize themselves to transform the opportunity into a sustainable business.
• Opportunity identification, Business Models and entrepreneurs, Social
Entrepreneurship.
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