Entrepreneurship

Claudia Álvarez

Claudia Alvarez is a research professor in the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey. She holds a PhD in Business Creation and Management from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Master's degree in Systems Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Administrative Engineering. In recent years, she has strengthened her academic profile with studies in Analytics and Data Science. With over 20 years of experience in the educational field, she has developed a solid career in teaching, research, management, and consulting. Her academic work has been published in prestigious international journals, including Small Business Economics, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, European Business Review, Management Decision, and the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, among others. She currently serves on the Editorial Review Board of the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. In the field of academic management, she has served as Vice-Rector for Administration and Finance at the University of Medellín (Colombia). She has directed the Phd program in Administration at EAFIT University, as well as several master's programs at other universities. She has also led key consulting projects in digital transformation and Industry 4.0, including projects in process orchestration and hyperautomation for the financial sector, piloting electronic labelling systems for retail, and developing smart manufacturing solutions in the pharmaceutical industry.

Expertise

Digital Transformation

Entrepreneurship

Photo

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Position

Profesora del Departamento de Estrategia y Liderazgo

Featured publications

Alvarez, C., Lopez, T. & Urbano, D. (2024). Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00920-4 (WoS Q1, SCOPUS Q1)
Tabares, A., Tavera, J. F., Alvarez, C., and Escobar-Sierra, M. (2023). Impacts of managerial capabilities on perceived international performance: mediating role of international opportunity-driven behavior. European Business Review, 35(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-03-2021-0077 (SCOPUS Q1)
Quiceno, G., Alvarez, C., Avila, R., Fernández, O., Franco, C.J., Kunc, M., Dyner, I. (2019). Scenario analysis for strategy design: A case study of the Colombian electricity industry. Energy Strategy Reviews, 23, 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2018.12.009. (WoS Q3, SCOPUS Q1)
Turro, A., Urbano, D., Alvarez, C. (2016). Intrapreneurship in the Spanish context: a regional analysis. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, 28(5-6), 380-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2016.1162850. (WoS Q2, SCOPUS Q1)
Urbano, D. & Alvarez, C. (2014). Institutional dimensions and entrepreneurial activity: an international study. Small Business Economics, 42(4), 703-716. (WoS Q2, SCOPUS Q1)

Awards

2011 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards, Management and Government category.

Discipline

Strategy and Management

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Education

PhD in Business Creation and Management
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Master in Systems Engineering
National University of Colombia

Bachelor's Degree in Administrative Engineering
National University of Colombia

Hans Martin Lundberg

With over 30 years of experience, his career combines research in entrepreneurship and innovation management with creating and transforming organizations in high-uncertainty and high-risk contexts. Before joining our institution, he was a Research Professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden, where he also held the positions of Director of Accreditation and Senior Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Hans was previously part of our academic community between 2008 and 2011, serving as a Research Professor and Director of the Master in Marketing program at the Estado de México Campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has also been a Research Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana.

He has collaborated with international organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations on business development and education initiatives in emerging markets. His publications include academic articles, book chapters, and monographs on entrepreneurship, innovation, and organizational development. He was Vice President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and founded its Entrepreneurship Interest Group. He has also led research projects that have had an impact on Latin America and Eastern Europe.

He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in Entrepreneurship from Växjö University (now Linnaeus University).

Expertise

Leadership

Entrepreneurship

Innovation-Oriented Organizational Culture

Photo

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Position

Profesor del Departamento de Estrategia y Liderazgo

Featured publications

Most Recent (2020 – Present)

Book Chapters:

Next Generation (2024). In Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business, edited by A. Discua Cruz and C. Howorth. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Business Groups Owned by Family and Sustainability Embeddedness: Understanding the Family Sustainability Spectrum (2022). Co-authored with M. Ramírez-Pasillas and U. A. Saari. In The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups, edited by M. Rautiainen et al. Palgrave Macmillan.
Radically Overperforming Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico City: Alimentos Para Todos as a High Impact Social Innovation Case (2022). In Research Handbook on Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation, edited by S. Yousafzai et al. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Embedding, Empowering and Enlarging the Agency for Genuine Mexican Entrepreneurs (2021). Published by SESIRI.
Social Innovation in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries (2020). Co-authored with M. Ramírez-Pasillas and V. Ratten. In Social Innovation of New Ventures, edited by M. Ramírez-Pasillas, V. Ratten, and H. Lundberg. Routledge.
Integrating, Empowering, and Expanding the Scope of Genuine Mexican Entrepreneurs (2020). In Being an Entrepreneur in 21st-Century Mexico, edited by C. Bueno Castellanos. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
The Other Within as Entrepreneurial Agency for Subsistence Entrepreneurs (2020). Co-authored with M. Ramírez-Pasillas. In Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business, edited by V. Ratten. Springer.
Introduction (2020). Co-authored with M. M. Pellegrini, L. Gnan, L. Songini, M. Raith, and M. Starnawska. In European Entrepreneurship Research and Practice: A Multifaceted Effort Towards Integration of Different Perspectives, edited by M. M. Pellegrini et al. Information Age Publishing.

Journal Articles:

Next Generation External Venturing Practices in Family Owned Businesses (2021). Co-authored with M. Ramírez-Pasillas and M. Nordqvist. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 63–103.
A Conceptual Framework for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Mexico (2020). Entretextos, 11(33), 20–37.

Awards

UDEM Adalberto Viesca Sada Award for the best Latin American scientific work on family business in 2022. Awarded by Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. November 2022
Founder of the Strategic Interest Group in Entrepreneurship (SIG Entrepreneurship) of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). Awarded at the official ceremony of "European Academy of Management 20 Years." December 2020
Recognition for Outstanding Service to the European Academy of Management (EURAM) community as Vice President (2014-2017). Awarded at the 17th EURAM Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. June 2017
Best Family Business Thesis Award 2016. Awarded by The Centre for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO), Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden. February 2017
Best Reviewer Award for the Strategic Interest Group in Entrepreneurship at the 13th European Academy of Management Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (selected among 250 reviewers). June 2013
Nomination for Best Reviewer at the 13th European Academy of Management Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (1 of 15 nominees among approximately 2,000 reviewers). June 2013
Grant for the project "InnoTracing: Capturing the Messiness of Innovation." Awarded by The Peter Pribilla Foundation, Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, for securing 3rd place in their science contest. November 2012
Annual Videum Science Park Entrepreneurship Award for significant contributions to entrepreneurship research and practice. Awarded by Videum Science Park, Linnaeus University, Sweden. December 2011
Nomination for the European STEP Award for the paper "Everyday Practices as Organizing Context for Entrepreneurial Orientation in Family Businesses." Presented at the 7th EIASM Workshop on Family Firms Management Research, Witten, Germany. May 2011

Discipline

Strategy and Management

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Management and Organizations

Education

Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, specialisation Entrepreneurship
Växjö University, Sweden (Linnaeus University from 2010)

Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Studies and Economics, specialisation Management Control
Växjö University, Sweden (Linnaeus University from 2010)

Degree of Bachelor of Arts (History)
Växjö University, Sweden (Linnaeus University from 2010)

Degree of University Diploma in Education for Upper Secondary School
Växjö University, Sweden (Linnaeus University from 2010)

Boyd Cohen

Since obtaining his Ph.D. in strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado in 2001, Boyd Cohen focused on accelerating the path to a low-carbon sustainable economy for the past two decades. This included publishing three books (Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99%, The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, and Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change), multiple peer-reviewed articles, and starting a handful of ventures in the smart cities and sustainability arena. Boyd’s writings and thought leadership have been published in Fast Company, CoinDesk, and numerous smart cities publications. At the same time, the Smart Cities Wheel has been leveraged by governments around the globe to benchmark, rank, and strategize their path to a net zero future. His previous academic posts have been at IE (Spain), University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University (Canada), INCAE (Costa Rica), Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile), and EADA Business School (Spain), where he was Dean of Research. Boyd joined EGADE in April 2024 as a Research Professor in the Department of Strategy and Leadership. He is currently the Director of the Master in Sustainable Business at EGADE Business School. He also holds an International Fellow from Hult International Business School in the Future’s Impact Lab. He is finishing his fourth book (Abundance Capitalism), and is on the Board of Iomob, a Web2 and Web3 software startup he cofounded in smart mobility.

Expertise

Entrepreneurship

Strategy

Sustainability Strategy

Bio subtitle

Accelerating a regenerative economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Photo

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Position

Director of the Master in Sustainable Business

Featured publications

Cohen, B., Charnley, F., Kietzmann, J., Esposito, M. (2025). Generative innovation opportunities in circular cities, California Management Review (special issue).
Cohen, B., & Kietzmann, J. (under review). Open innovation for grand challenges requires systems thinking
Cohen, B. Rethinking sustainability: Nature’s hierarchy of needs.
Lecuna, A., Cohen, B. & Mandakovic, V. (2020). Want more high-growth entrepreneurs? Then control corruption with less ineffective bureaucracy. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 45(4): 525-546.
Muñoz, P., Gacciotti, G., & Cohen, B. (2018). The double-edged sword of purpose-driven behavior in sustainable venturing, Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2), 149-178.
Muñoz, P. & Cohen, B. (2018). A compass for navigating sharing economy business models, California Management Review, 61(1): 114-147.
Muñoz, P. & Cohen, B. (2018). Sustainable entrepreneurship research: Taking stock and looking ahead, Business Strategy & the Environment, 27(3): 300-322.
Cohen, B. (2017). The rise of alternative currencies in post-capitalism. Journal of Management Studies, 54(5), 739-746.
Muñoz, P. & Cohen, B. (2017). Mapping out the sharing economy: A configurational approach to sharing business modeling, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 125, 21-37.
Cohen, B., Almirall, E., & Chesbrough, H. (editors), (2016). The City as a lab: Open innovation meets the collaborative economy, California Management Review, 59(1), 5-13.
Muñoz, P. & Cohen, B. (2016). The making of the urban entrepreneur, California Management Review, 71-91.
Cohen, B. & Muñoz, P. (2016). Sharing cities and sustainable consumption and production: Towards an integrated framework, Journal of Cleaner Production, 134, 87-97.
Cohen, B. & Muñoz, P. (2015) Towards a theory of purpose-driven entrepreneurship, Organization & Environment, 28(3), 264-285.
Cohen, B. & Amoros, E. (2014) Municipal demand-side policy tools and the strategic management of technology life cycles, Technovation, 34(12), 797-806.
Cohen, B. & Kietzmann, J. (2014) Ride on! Mobility business models for the sharing economy, Organization & Environment, 27(3), 279-296. IESE Schneider Electric Best Paper Award for Impact on Practice
Cohen, B. & Winn, M. (2007). Market imperfections, opportunity and sustainable entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing, 22(1), 29-49.
Cohen, B. (2006). Sustainable valley entrepreneurial ecosystems, Business Strategy and the Environment, 15(1), 1-14.
Cohen, B. & Dean, T. (2005). Information asymmetry and investor valuation of IPOs: top management team legitimacy as a capital market signal, Strategic Management Journal, 26(7), 683-690.

Awards

IESE Schneider Electric Best Paper Award for Impact on Practice

https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyd-cohen-ph-d/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/boydcohen

Discipline

Entrepreneurship

Strategy and Management

Sustainability and Technological Innovation

Education

Ph.D Strategy and Entrepreneurship
University of Colorado (USA)
M.A. International Human Resources and International Exchange
University of South Carolina (USA) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
B.S. Organizational Behavior
Miami University (USA)

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N2kOYEwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Jairo Orozco Triana

Dr. Jairo Orozco is a professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation at EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has left a significant mark on the academic and business community with more than 15 years of experience training and motivating people in their decision to start a business and providing his experience in corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, business model redesign, and strategy. He has been a consultant to public and private companies, including the Inter-American Development Bank. He has held various liaison, academic, and research roles at institutions such as the University of Cartagena and the Ean University in Colombia, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain, and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the determinants of corporate entrepreneurship in developing countries, and his contributions have been published in renowned academic journals, such as the Journal of Small Business Management. He has participated as a speaker at renowned international conferences, such as RENT, ACEDE, CLADEA, and ICSB, sharing his experience and knowledge with the academic community.

Expertise

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Innovation

jairo.orozco@tec.mx

Photo

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Position

PROFESSOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Featured publications

Urbano, D., Orozco, J., & Turro, A. (2023). The effect of institutions on intrapreneurship: An analysis of developed vs developing countries. Journal of Small Business Management, 1-41.
Orozco, J. ., & Arraut Camargo, L. C. (2018). Entrepreneurs with high expectations of growth and economic growth. Dimensión Empresarial, 16(2), 85-98.

Awards

Global Strategy Journal Award, GSJ - CLADEA , 2021.

Nominee to Jose Veciana Award - Best Young Researcher, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 2020.

1er lugar del Concurso de Investigación Iberoamericano EQUAA - BACKUS SABMiller Perú, 2016.

Becario Colfuturo, 2019.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jairoorozco/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/JairoAOrozcoT

Discipline

Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Economics

Education

Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Management (Cum Laude)
Autonomous University of Barcelona

Master in Research Applied to Economics and Business
Autonomous University of Barcelona

Master in Innovation
Bolivar Technological University

Bachelor's degree in Economics
Cartagena University

Sascha Fürst

Dr. Sascha Fürst is a Research Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation at EGADE Business School and Leader of the Thematic Area Research Group (GAT) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Dr. Sascha is affiliated with the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku in Finland as a research fellow in international entrepreneurship. He is also visiting professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany where he teaches business in the Latin American context.

Dr. Fuerts earned a PhD with distinction in International Business from the University of Turku and holds a Master of Science in Business and Engineering from the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany.

His research interests are focused on the junction between entrepreneurship, strategy, and international business.

Expertise

Entrepreneurship

Strategy

Global Business

sascha@tec.mx

Bio subtitle

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving". (Albert Einstein)

Photo

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Position

Research Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Featured publications

Fürst, S. (2021). The network dynamics during internationalization of a family firm: The case of a new venture from Colombia. In T. Leppäaho & S. Jack (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Family Firm Internationalization, (pp. 395-430). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66737-5_13
Fürst, Sascha & Torkkeli, Lasse (2019). The rise and fall of an international new venture: The case of an online medical tourism platform. In P. Reyes-Mercado & G. J. Larios-Hernández (Eds.), Reverse Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Internationalization from Emerging Markets to Developed Economies, (pp. 7-27). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94466-1_2
Escandon-Barbosa, D., Rialp-Criado, J., Fürst, S., Rodriguez-Orejuela, A., & Castro-Aristizabal, G. (2019). Born global: the influence of international orientation on export performance. Heliyon, 5(11), e02688, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02688
Giraldo-Diaz, Jorge Mario & Fürst, Sascha (2019). Shipstra: The lean start-up of a digital freight-forwarding marketplace. Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 38(5), 6-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joe.21946
Torkkeli, Lasse & Fürst, Sascha (2018). Country institutional profiles: Evidence from Colombian software exporters. Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, 31(4), 663-678. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARLA-12-2016-0335
Zettinig, Peter, Sandberg, Birgitta, & Fürst, Sascha (2017). Value creation during different development stages: What changes when an entrepreneurial firm transforms into a multinational corporation? In Svetla Marinova, Jorma Larimo, Niina Nummela (Eds.), Value creation in international business: Volume 2: An SME perspective, (pp. 109-129). London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39369-8
Fürst, Sascha & Zettinig, Peter (2015). Knowledge creation dynamics within the international new venture. European Business Review, 27(2), 182-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EBR-03-2013-0036

Awards

Best Reviewer award by Elsevier, Journal of World Business, May 2019.

"Summa Cum Laude" ("Laudatur" in the Finnish academic grading system): The thesis makes an outstanding contribution to the knowledge in its field. PhD in Economics and Business Administration, major in International Business, University of Turku (Finland), December 2017.
Thesis title: Entrepreneurial internationalization: A process perspective.

Merit Medal of Honor for his contributions to the internationalization of the School of Management, Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia), 2009.

Fellowship UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), Geneva, Switzerland, February 2009.

Portfolio Awards. Nominated Best university professor by the Colombian business magazine Portafolio, 2007.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saschaf/

Discipline

Entrepreneurship

Global Business

Education

PhD. in Economics and Business Administration with distinction in International Business
University of Turku, Finland

M.Sc. in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Cristian Granados Sánchez

Dr. Cristian Granados is a research professor and consultant in the Innovation Department of EGADE. He holds a master's degree, doctorate, and post-doctorate from the University of Barcelona and the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow at HEC Montreal and did a research stay at Harvard Business School. He actively works with entrepreneurs to develop their innovation capacity. He has worked with various companies such as Renault, Pfizer, Roche, Kraft-Heinz, Mabe, Hubbell, and Grupo Salinas in consulting and education. In addition, he is the academic director of the executive innovation program Tec Beyond and co-founder of the EGADE Innovation Community, which brings together 50 innovation leaders in Mexico. He has held positions as innovation director, co-founder of a video game startup, and Coparmex Innovation Commission president. In his research work, he focuses on analyzing factors of success and failure of innovation, and his studies have been published in British and American journals. He writes for Forbes, MIT Review, and Stanford Innovation Review in his dissemination work. He co-authors the book Do More with Less: 6 Principles of Frugal Innovation (Planeta).

Expertise

Entrepreneurship

Business Innovation

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Frugal Innovation

cristian.granados@tec.mx

Bio subtitle

"Innovation drives growth for countries and companies. But without bold and persevering entrepreneurs it would be impposible to enable changes."

Photo

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Position

Professor, researcher and advisor at EGADE

Featured publications

Granados, C., Bernardo, M. and Pareja, M. (2017). How do creative industries innovate? A model proposal. Creative Industries Journal, 10 (3).
Granados, C. and Pareja-Eastaway, M. (2019). How do collaborative practices contribute to innovation in large organisations? The case of hackathons. Innovation, Organization and Management Journal, 21(4).
Bravo, C, and Granados, C. (2020) "The development of high-potential intrapreneurs: an executive education approach to drive innovation in Latin American companies". Chapter book in "Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education". Ed. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. USA
Granados, C., Ayala, Y, and Ramos, M. (2021). “Fake it till you make it: understanding innovation theater un organizations”. Academy of Management proceedings.

Awards

Dr. Cristian was distinguished as one of the best professors in innovation and entrepreneurship by EGADE and the Eugenio Garza Laguera Entrepreneurship Institute (2020 and 2021), and has been recognized as a SNI-C researcher.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-cristian-granados-10257947/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/crisgranadoss

Discipline

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Organizational Behavior

Leadership

Education

Master degree in Creation and Management of Innovative Technology-Based Companies

University of Barcelona

Ph.D. in Business (Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

University of Barcelona

Doctoral Stay

HEC Montreal

Doctoral Stay

Harvard Business School

Post-doctorate

Judge Business School, Cambridge University.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NSSwyswAAAAJ&hl=es

Website

https://egade.tec.mx/es/egade-ideas/autores/cristian-granados

Pedro Carreón

Pedro is passionate about higher business education, with a career of more than 25 years in public, private and non-profit institutions. This experience has given him a unique understanding of business and a comprehensive perspective of the world in which they operate, making it easier for leaders and organizations to thrive in their business ecosystem. At the beginning of his professional life, Pedro collaborated in the promotion of investment projects of foreign companies in our country. Through the Tecnológico de Monterrey, he has participated as a consultant in the Institute of Family Businesses, the Eugenio Garza Lagüera Entrepreneurship Institute, the Award for the Best Mexican Companies awarded jointly with Deloitte and Citibanamex, and Executive Education at EGADE Business School. His teaching and research activities focus on innovative entrepreneurship. His most recent publications address the creation of new companies and the growth aspirations of Mexican entrepreneurs, mainly based on data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project. Likewise, he actively participates in different national and international forums that promote the entrepreneurial mentality. He is currently a member of the Academic Senate of Tecnológico de Monterrey and Chapter Advisor of Beta Gamma Sigma.

He is currently the director of the MBA program at EGADE Business School in Monterrey and Guadalajara.

Expertise

Business

Entrepreneurship

Phone

(33) 3669-3000

pedro.carreon@tec.mx

Bio subtitle

"Each person in our lives represents an opportunity to build a better version of ourselves".

Photo

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Position

Director of the MBA program at EGADE Business School in Monterrey and Guadalajara

Featured publications

Carreón-Gutiérrez, J.P.; Saiz-Álvarez, J.M. Product Newness, Low Competition, Recent Technology, and Export Orientation as Predictors for Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5818.
Carreón-Gutiérrez, J.P.; Saiz-Álvarez, J.M. Opportunity Motivation and Growth Aspirations of Mexican Entrepreneurs: The Moderating Role of the Household Income. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6288.

Working Papers

"The Internationalization of the Mexican family business", 2009
"Tecnologico de Monterrey as Entrepreneurial University", 2009
"The deployment of international economic development strategies by local governments," 2008
"The business climate measuring systems in Mexico", 2008
"Scientific research on Entrepreneurship", 2008
"The phenomenon of non-central governments internationally active." Protocol Magazine, 2007
"International relations as a development strategy: the case of Coahuila", Dissertation for the Master in International Studies, ITESM, 2007
"Border Governor's diplomacy in the United States - Mexico relationship", 2006
"Border Infrastructure Development: how the US and Mexico Respond to people needs", 2006
"The economic performance of Uruguay in the nineties", 2005
"Formulation of a strategic accountability system for FOMEC, A.C. (La Laguna Economic Development)", 2005

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-carreon/

Discipline

Entrepreneurship

Education

Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences
EGADE Business School
Diploma of Advanced Studies in Business Organization
Universidad Autonóma de Barcelona
Master of Research in the Economics of the Enterprise
Universidad Autonóma de Barcelona
Master in International Studies
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Programs

EGADE MBA

Alfonso Ávila Robinson

Dr. Ávila Robinson’s career has brought him to world-class research institutions in Germany and Japan, such as the Fraunhofer Institute, RWTH Aachen, Tokyo Tech, and Kyoto University. Through these experiences, he has been able to amalgamate research in Innovation and Technology Management with several emerging technologies, including micro-/nanotechnologies, regenerative medicine, stem cells and cancer immunotherapies.

He has developed a unique expertise in data science, network approaches and the management of technological innovation, including technology intelligence and forecasting, management of emerging technologies, interdisciplinary/convergent R&D, innovation in high-tech industries, and open innovation in life sciences/biotechnology companies.

Dr. Ávila Robinson is also passionate about the study of the translation of convergent life science discoveries into revolutionary ventures which cure diseases. In this regard, he has accumulated practical experience in the regenerative medicine ecosystem in Japan.

Professor Ávila-Robinson’s research has been published in several top-tier journals in the field of technology and innovation management, such as Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Scientometrics. He is also an ad hoc reviewer for some leading journals in this field.

Expertise

Technological Innovation

Entrepreneurship

aavilarobinson@tec.mx

Bio subtitle

"The greatest innovations come from connecting disparate, previously unconnected knowledge".

Photo

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Featured publications

Avila-Robinson, A; Islam, N.; Sengoku, S. (2019) Co-evolutionary and systemic study on the evolution of emerging stem cell-based therapies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 138: 324-339
Avila-Robinson, A.; Wakabayashi N. (2018) Changes in the structures and directions of destination management and marketing research: A bibliometric mapping study, 2005–2016. Journal of Destination Management and Marketing 10: 101-111 [DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2018.06.005] | SJR: Q1
Avila-Robinson, A.; Sengoku, S. (2017) Tracing the knowledge building dynamics in new stem cell technologies through techno-scientific networks. Scientometrics 112(3): 1691-1720 [DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2436-5] | SJR: Q1
Avila-Robinson, A.; Sengoku, S. (2017) Multilevel exploration of the realities of interdisciplinary research centers for the management of knowledge integration. Technovation 62-63: 22-41 [DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2017.01.003] | SJR: Q1
Avila-Robinson, A.; Miyazaki, K. (2013) Dynamics of scientific knowledge bases as proxies for discerning technological emergence ‒ The case of MEMS/NEMS technologies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 80(6), 1071-1084 [DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.07.012] | SJR: Q1
Avila-Robinson, A.; Miyazaki, K. (2013) Evolutionary paths of change of emerging nanotechnological innovation systems: the case of ZnO nanostructures. Scientometrics 95(3), 829-849 [DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0939-7] | SJR: Q1

The complete list of publications can be found in:

https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?hl=en&user=0eodJy4AAAAJ

Awards

Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan
Research Fellowship from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico
Full academic scholarship from the Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aavilar/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/AlfonsoAvilaR

Discipline

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Education

Ph.D. in the Management of Technology / Innovation Management
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
M.Sc. in Manufacturing Engineering
RWTH Aachen (Germany)
B.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Universidad de Monterrey