Esteve Almirall is a
Spanish
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management scientist and an
academic
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. He is a full
professor
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in the Department of Operations, Innovation, and Data Sciences at ESADE,
Universitat Ramon Llull.
Almirall is most known for his works in Open Innovation, particularly in the contexts of complexity simulations, Smart Cities, and the societal impacts of
A.I. He serves as the director of the Center for Innovation in Cities at
ESADE Business School
ESADE Business School is a private Postgraduate education, graduate-level business school located in Barcelona, Spain. It is part of ESADE (Catalan language, Catalan: ''Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses'', Spanish: ''Escuela ...
.
Education
Almirall holds a
PhD
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in Management Sciences from ESADE, as well as degrees including an MCIS, DEA, and
MRes
A Master of Research ( abbr. MRes, MARes, MScRes, or MScR) degree is an internationally recognised advanced postgraduate research degree in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. In most cases, the degree is designed to prepare s ...
in Artificial Intelligence from UPC. He also has an
MBA
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and a PDD from IESE, a Diploma in Marketing from
UC Berkeley
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, a GCPCL Diploma from
Harvard Business School
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, and a degree in
Computer Science
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from UPC.
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Career
Almirall had a former career before academia in Information Technologies. He was a CTO in the Spanish banking industry. He founded several companies and participated in tech startups. He has been teaching in Competing with AI and Cloud, Open Innovation
Open innovation is a term used to promote an Information Age mindset toward innovation that runs counter to the secrecy and silo mentality of traditional corporate research labs. The benefits and driving forces behind increased openness have b ...
, Python, and AWS. He has also served as a professor at EPFL (Lausanne
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), UPF (Barcelona), UPC (Barcelona), and IESE (Barcelona), and lectured at vuniversities, including UC Berkeley and Purdue
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. One of his known contributions was the creation, as academic director, of Esade's Master in Business Analytics.[
Almirall served as an expert for the ]World Bank
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and the International Development Bank and the European Commission, where he coordinated EU competitive projects and participated as the lead researcher in them.
Almirall is also frequent contributor to the general press, TV and radios such as ''La Vanguardia
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Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, ...
'', ''El PaÃs
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...
'', ''Expansión'', '' Catalunya Radio El Nacional'' and ''Forbes
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''.
Research and publications
As a researcher, Almirall has more than 7,500 citations.[
In a 2008 article, which got published in ''Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness'', Almirall examined how Living Labs addressed the challenges of integrating user contributions into innovation processes by providing structure and methodologies, enhancing Open Innovation and Systems of Innovation, and evaluated their effectiveness and limitations in this role. Through his 2012 study, he explored European living labs as an innovation methodology, compared their various approaches, assessed their impact, and evaluated their effectiveness and appropriateness relative to other innovation methods.]
Selected articles
*Almirall, E., & Wareham, J. (2008). Living labs and open innovation: Roles and applicability. eJOV: The Electronic Journal for Virtual Organization & Networks, 10.
*Almirall, E., & Casadesus-Masanell, R. (2010). Open versus closed innovation: A model of discovery and divergence. Academy of Management Review, 35(1), 27–47.
*Almirall, E., Lee, M., & Wareham, J. (2012). Mapping living labs in the landscape of innovation methodologies. Technology Innovation Management Review, 2(9).
*Bakıcı, T., Almirall, E., & Wareham, J. (2013). A smart city initiative: the case of Barcelona. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 4, 135–148.
*Bogers, M., Zobel, A. K., Afuah, A., Almirall, E., Brunswicker, S., Dahlander, L., ... & Ter Wal, *A. L. (2017). The open innovation research landscape: Established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis. Industry and Innovation, 24(1), 8-40.
References
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Management scientists
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Harvard Business School alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of University Ramon Llull
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)