Professor Beatrice D'Ippolito
Chair in Strategic Management and Innovation

Profile

Biography

Beatrice D'Ippolito is Chair in Strategic Management and Innovation. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of mechanisms of knowledge creation and diffusion that connect the micro level of firm dynamics with the meso level of industry evolution. She conducted extensive qualitative and archival research within organisations of small to large sizes across different sectors.

Throughout her career, Professor D'Ippolito's has developed interest in how inter-firm collaborations may yield innovation and constitute source of growth. She has conducted research on this subject across different empirical contexts, including the design-intensive furniture sectors in Italy, a range of large-scale research infrastructures based within the French GIANT campus, Grenoble, and the new energy technologies firms belonging to the French Tenerrdis cluster, Rhone-Alpes.

Currently, Professor D'Ippolito is working on a wide array of projects that relate to, among others, the role of design in shaping firms' strategy-making, the way organisations embrace the potential of digital technologies with a focus on creative industries, and the nature and dynamics of the processes that characterise business model innovation.

Professor D'Ippolito's research has been published in top-tier innovation and strategy journals such as Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Industry and Innovation, Technovation, and International Journal of Management Reviews. She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of Research Policy and Industry and Innovation and is Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies. She is willing to supervise PhD candidates in the areas of design and innovation management, including but not limited to the role that digital technologies play in the organisation and management of firms. 

Education

PhD, University of Manchester, UK (ESRC Fellowship)

MRes, University of Manchester, UK (ESRC Fellowship)

MSc, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

BBA, University of Lancaster, UK

Departmental roles

• Director of External Partnerships and Engagement (November 2023 - to date)
• Theme Lead "Risk, Innovation, and the Economy" (November 2021 - October 2023)
• Programme Director, MSc International Business and Strategic Management (April 2016 - March 2019)

Research

Overview

Professor D'Ippolito's ongoing research cuts across the following research areas:

• Firm- and industry-level dynamics of knowledge systematisation and reconfiguration
• Design as a process, as an activity, and as trigger of innovation
• The influence of digital technologies on firms' innovative activities
• Inter-firm collaborations as a source of innovation

She is currently engaged in case study and archival research through the combination of different qualitative research methods.

Publications

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