Organization
Welcome
The R&D Management Conference has taken off in recent years with attendance rising past 500. With its strong links to the R&D Management Association (RADMA), the conference is the centre of an ecosystem including the R&D Management Journal, the annual conference, regular specialist workshops and the practice-oriented website www.RnDToday.com. Beyond the R&D Management, several other journals are represented in Meet The Editor sessions.
As a focal point in the annual calendar of the community of academics and practitioners involved in the field, we all felt the gap of not being able to hold the 2020 conference. The 2021 conference was brilliantly created as an online event by the University of Strathclyde, but we all missed the rich interactions that occur when we are together in lecture theatres, meeting rooms and bars.
So 2022 gives us the opportunity to come together again as a community. And nowhere could be better to meet than Trento and reflect on Innovation for People and Territories.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Trento on July 9-13, 2022!
Why you should attend the R&D Management Conference 2022 in Trento
The R&D 2022 edition aims to enable the collaboration between academics and practitioners to let innovation help people and territories reflect on sustainable solutions to the emergencies we are facing worldwide.
The Conference promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to innovation as the convergence of knowledge in diverse domains is key to facilitate the assessment of technologies on which to invest, analyze the economic, social and legal opportunities and barriers to their adoption as well as evaluate the implications of their diffusion for people and territories.
Being part of the conference will benefit both scholars and practitioners: the former need to define new interpretative frameworks to investigate technological solutions to global challenges and the latter are called to enable the transition of organizations towards sustainable business architectures.
The University of Trento is proud to welcome participants in Trento and make the R&D 2022 a valuable occasion to let different types of knowledge converge and create a momentum to reflect on the types of value that innovation can generate for all of us.
If you want to know more about the rationale of the overarching theme of the R&D2022, please read the interview given by Alberto Nucciarelli – associate professor at the University of Trento and Chair of the Conference – to R&D Today.
Conference Chair
Alberto Nucciarelli
He is an associate professor in management at the Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group of the Department of Economics and Management of University of Trento. His research focuses on business modeling for new ventures, incumbents’ business model change, digital transformation, and the emergence of industries and ecosystems. He received his PhD from University of L’Aquila (Italy) and worked in different academic and industry settings including the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), Cass Business School, City, University of London (UK), and Philips Research (The Netherlands). He
published – among the rest – in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Research, Government Information Quarterly, Production Planning and Control, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Telecommunications Policy.
Conference Co-Chairs
Fabio Pieri
He is associate professor at the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento (Italy). He received his PhD in Economics and Management from the University of Trento (2010) and worked both as Research Fellow at the University of Perugia and lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics II at the University of Valencia (Spain).
His research has inquired into the determinants and effects of vertical integration, the role of foreign investments in fostering European regional productivity, and the role of market regulation in innovation. His current research projects address the factors behind firm and region dynamics and, in particular, the role of technological investments, productivity and managerial characteristics in firm growth and survival, the internal organization of firms, and the growth trajectory of territories.
Erica Santini
She is assistant professor in Management at the University of Trento. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Florence. She was visiting researcher at the Birmingham Business School (UK) and postdoc in innovation and new manufacturing at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland.) Her research focuses on innovation, clusters, ecosystems, digitalization of manufacturing, servitization strategies, and product-service innovation. She has published in international journals such as Regional Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and European Planning Studies.
Conference Office
Andrea Piccaluga
He is the Director of the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is vice-President of Netval (www.netval.it), the Italian network of University Technology Transfer Offices, after being president from 2014 to 2019. He holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and a Master in Technology and Innovation Management from SPRU-University of Sussex. He is Associate editor of the R&D Management Journal. He has published articles and books in the broad field of knowledge transfer and has also had management roles in this area. In the last few years he has been increasingly active in the field of purpose-driven organisations.
Organizing Commitee
Scientific Committee
- Alberto Nucciarelli
- Erica Santini
- Fabio Pieri
- Marco Formentini
- Sara Favargiotti
- Corrado Malberti
- Silvia Sacchetti
- Stefano Cirella
- Francesco Pilati
- Emiliano Biasini
- Dario Petri
Contact
For queries, please send an email to: rnd2022@unitn.it
The organizers will reply as soon as possible.
The R&D Management Conference
The R&D Management Conference is an international gathering of academics and practitioners concerned with the study of research, development, technology management and innovation. The conference provides a valuable means of communication and exchange of ideas among academics and managers.
The prestigious event is of long standing: the Conference was initiated in Manchester in 1980 and the 2022 42nd edition of the conference is due to take place in Trento, Italy in July 2022.
For more details, please visit the following website: www.radma.net/conferences
| Year | Location | Topic |
| 1980 | Manchester, UK | Industrial R&D Strategy & Management – A Challenge for the 1980s |
| 1981 | Manchester, UK | International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research |
| 1983 | Manchester, UK | The Management of Interdisciplinary Research |
| 1984 | Manchester, UK | Knowledge Engineering & R&D |
| 1985 | Manchester, UK | Managing R&D Effectively |
| 1986 | Manchester, UK | Management Development for Scientists & Technologists |
| 1987 | Paris, France | The Strategic Management of Technology |
| 1988 | Manchester, UK | State of the Art in R&D Management |
| 1989 | Ghent, Belgium | R&D, Design & Manufacturing |
| 1990 | Manchester, UK | R&D, Entrepreneurship & Innovation |
| 1991 | Kiel, Germany | External Acquisition of Technological Knowledge |
| 1992 | Manchester, UK | Managing R&D Internationally |
| 1993 | Zurich, Switzerland | Technology Assessment & Forecasting |
| 1994 | Manchester, UK | Managing Human Resources in R&D |
| 1995 | Pisa, Italy | Knowledge, Technology & Innovation Organisations |
| 1995 | Hyderabad, India | Entrepreneurship & R&D |
| 1996 | Lausanne, Switzerland | Using IT Effectively in R&D Organisations |
| 1996 | Twente, Holland | Knowledge, Technology & Innovation Organisations |
| 1997 | Manchester, UK | Managing R&D into the 21st Century |
| 1998 | Avila, Spain | Technology Strategy & Strategic Alliances |
| 1999 | New Delhi, India | R&D as a Business |
| 2000 | Manchester, UK | Wealth from Knowledge |
| 2001 | Wellington, New Zealand | Leveraging Research & Technology |
| 2002 | Leuven, Belgium | Strategy, Policy & Performance: Impact of R&D Activities |
| 2003 | Manchester, UK | Implementing the Theories of R&D Management – Advancing the State of the Art |
| 2004 | Taiwan | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in R&D Management |
| 2005 | Pisa, Italy | Organising R&D activities: a Balancing Act |
| 2006 | Lake Windermere, UK | The Challenges and Opportunities of R&D Management – New Directions for Research |
| 2007 | Bremen, Germany | Risk and Uncertainty in R&D Management |
| 2008 | Ottawa, Canada | Emerging and New Approaches to R&D Management |
| 2009 | Vienna, Austria | The Reality of R&D and its Impact on Innovation |
| 2010 | Manchester, UK | Information, Imagination & Intelligence in R&D Management |
| 2011 | Norrkoping, Sweden | R&D, Sustainability & Innovation – the need for new ideas, initiatives and alliances |
| 2012 | Grenoble, France | Creating and Capturing Value through R&D Management and Innovation |
| 2013 | Manchester, UK | Skills for Future Innovation – Implications for R&D Management |
| 2014 | Stuttgart, Germany | Management of Applied R&D – Connecting high value solutions with future markets |
| 2015 | Pisa, Italy | (Fast?) Connecting R&D |
| 2016 | Cambridge, UK | From Sciente to Society: Innovation and Value Creation |
| 2017 | Leuven, Belgium | Science, Markets & Society: Corssing boundaries, creating momentum |
| 2018 | Milano, Italy | R&Designing Innovation: transformational challenges for organizations and society |
| 2019 |
Paris, France |
The Innovation Challenge: Bridging Research, Industry and Society |
| 2021 | Strathclyde, UK | Innovation in an Era of Disruption |
The conference typically attracts hundreds of delegates.
The R&D 2022 edition aims to enable the collaboration between academics and practitioners to let innovation help people and territories reflect on sustainable solutions to the emergencies we are facing worldwide.
The Conference promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to innovation as the convergence of knowledge in diverse domains is key to facilitate the assessment of technologies on which to invest, analyze the economic, social and legal opportunities and barriers to their adoption as well as evaluate the implications of their diffusion for people and territories.
