Alessandra Colombelli

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Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP)

  • President Equality Committee
  • Member Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - GEDI Observatory
  • Componente Tavolo Internazionalizzazione

Profile

Research interests

Entrepreneurship, startup, innovation, ecosystems, green technologies, sustainability, artificial intelligence, social impact, equal opportunity, gender issues
Imprenditorialità, startup, innovazione, ecosistemi, tecnologie verdi, sostenibilita', intelligenza artificiale, impatto sociale, pari opportunità, divari di genere

Biography

Alessandra Colombelli (PhD) is a Full Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where she also leads the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (EIC). She is a Research Associate at CNRS-GREDEG, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), and BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy). In addition, she serves as a Technical Assessor at the I3P incubator and as a member of the Scientific Council of the ESSCA Business School. She is actively engaged in institutional roles promoting diversity and inclusion. She is President of the Equal Opportunity Committee (CUG), Scientific Coordinator of the Gender Research Coordination Group (GReG), and a member of the Gender Observatory Working Group at Politecnico di Torino. She has served as an elected member of the Board of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG) and held editorial roles in leading international journals, including Associate Editor of Regional Studies, The Journal of Technology Transfer, and Eurasian Business Review; Editorial Review Board member for Small Business Economics; and Editorial Board member for Climate and Economics. Previously, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at Manchester Business School, and a research fellow at both University Lumière Lyon 2 and the University of Nice Côte d’Azur. She has contributed to numerous national and international research projects funded by institutions such as the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Invitalia, the Bank of Italy, and CNRS (France). Her research spans entrepreneurship, the economics of innovation, and regional economics, with publications in top-tier journals including Research Policy, Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, Industry and Innovation, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology. She has also served as guest editor for several special issues in these fields.

Scientific branch

IEGE-01/A - Business and Management Engineering
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Research topics

  • Best practice for diversity and inclusion
  • Entrepreneurial dynamics, with a focus on innovative start-ups and scale-ups
  • Entrepreneurial ecosystems dynamics
  • Female entrepreneurship
  • Firms' growth and innovation
  • Gender gap in science and technology
  • Student entrepreneurship
  • Technological alliances for sustainability
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Skills

ERC sectors

SH1_9 - Industrial organisation; strategy; entrepreneurship
SH1_11 - Technological change, innovation, research & development

SDG

Goal 5: Gender equality
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 13: Climate action

Awards and Honors

  • Giorgio Rota Best paper Award conferred by The Centro Einaudi is an independent non-profit institute based in Turin. Its mission is to conduct independent research, providing policy recommendations in the fields of political economy, welfare policies, government and market competition. Since 1963, the Centro Einaudi has been a beacon of liberalism and one of the most influential Italian think-tanks. Many of its members hold prominent positions in academia, government, journalism and business., Italy (2005)
  • Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence conferred by Emerald Literati Network, United kingdom (2012)
  • John Bessant Best Paper Award - Cinet Conference conferred by CINet - Continuous Innovation Network - conference, Netherlands (2019)

Fellowships

  • Steering Committe member - Associazione italiana Ingegneria Gestionale (AiIG), Italia (2019-2021)

Editorial boards

  • THE JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (2023-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • EURASIAN BUSINESS REVIEW (2022-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • RESEARCH POLICY (2020-), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • REGIONAL STUDIES (2018-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS (2018-), Other editorial activities
  • SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS (2016-), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
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Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Visiting Researcher, presso University of Manchester (1/9/2006-30/4/2007)

Roles as evaluator or expert

  • PRIN. 2012
    MIUR

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • DOTTORATO NAZIONALE IN SVILUPPO SOSTENIBILE E CAMBIAMENTO CLIMATICO, 2021/2022 (37. ciclo)
    I.U.S.S. - Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - PAVIA
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2012/2013 (28. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Teachings

PhD

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Teaching and training projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Research

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