Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
Pedro Oliveira is Dean and Cascais Chair Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation at Nova School of Business and Economics (formerly Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Chair Professor). He is also the President of the Open and User Innovation Society (OUI); and serves as a member of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI) and of the Economics and Social Council (CES - Conselho Económico e Social). He is also Academic Fellow at Cornell University’s Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures; Founder of Patient Innovation; and co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding. Previously he was a Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School's Strategy & Innovation Department; and Associate Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics, where he also served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research, Director of the Research Unit in Business and Economics, Academic Director of the LisbonMBA (a joint-venture between Católica-Lisbon, NovaSBE and MIT-Sloan), and Academic Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship (offered in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University). Pedro also served as advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (with Ministers Mariano Gago and Manuel Heitor) and as member of the Environment & Sustainability Council at EDP Energias de Portugal. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management . His research has been published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Production and Operations Management (POM), Research Policy, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, New England Journal of Medicine - Catalyst, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among other. He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and his M.Sc. and "licenciatura" in Naval Engineering from IST. He also completed advanced training at Harvard Business School and at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Invited Full Professor (Part-time) Sept 2019 - Dec 2022 Full Professor Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
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