Partnership

In 2020 a working group with dr. Jung Kyu Canci, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) was launched. Other members of the group are: prof. Michael Blankenagel, Lucerne School of Business, and Philipp Mekler, strategic advisor of Roche Pharma, Basel. Gianpaolo Iazzolino leads the group, that works on topics related to strategies in R&D-intensive sectors, such as the pharmaceutical sector, and the valuation of complex investments, R&D, intangible assets and intellectual property rights. Methodologies beyond the NPV are considered. Iazzolino taught the course “Evaluating Strategic Investments and Intellectual Property” at the Lucerne University, school of Engineering and Architecture, in July 2022 dealing with the valuation of high uncertainty investments, organized for the PhD program involving the University of Basel and the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts.

Since 2022 a working group with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Department of Business Organisation (prof. Maria del Mar Alonso-Almeida), led by Gianpaolo Iazzolino, was established. Maria del Mar Alonso-Almeida is currently in a visiting period at the Univerity of Calabria. The working group includes Maria Elena Bruni and Giovanni Baldissarro, EBALab members, and works on the evaluation of sustainability in tourism in the European context and the efficiency evaluation related to SDGs also from a geographical point of view.

EBALab has a research collaboration with dr. Eleonora Pantano (currently at the University of Bristol and previously, 2015-2019, at Middlesex University, London) on topics related to innovation performance and the use of technologies in retail. The collaboration started in 2015. Some master theses in collaboration in 2015 and 2016 were carried out with supervisors at Unical Verteramo, EBALab member, and Iazzolino. Some journal papers were published with co-authors the master candidates.

Conference Papers

• Sorace S., Pantano E., Priporas C.-V. and Iazzolino G. (2017), “Patent analysis as a measure of innovation in retail settings: some preliminary evidence”, in Rossi P. (eds), Marketing at the Confluence between Entertainment and Analytics, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science, pp. 277-284. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47331-4_51 ISBN: 978-3-319-47330-7
• Sorace S., Pantano E., Priporas C.-V. and Iazzolino G. (2016), “The Future Role of Digital Technologies in Emerging Technology-Based Retail Environments”, in Ma J. and Fang W.C. (eds), Proceedings 8th International Conference on u- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST 2015), International Center, Jeju National University, Jeju Island, South Korea, November 25-28, Article number 7434360, pp. 72-76. Doi: 10.1109/UNESST.2015.19, Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., NY (ISBN: 978-146739852-7)
• Pantano E., Verteramo S. (2015), “Placeless store or ubiquitous stores? New technological frontiers in retailing”, ICE-B 2015 – 12th International Conference on e-Business, Proceedings; Part of 12th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2015, pp. 173 – 178, DOI: 10.5220/0005531301730178

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A working group with prof. Ante Pulic, Libertas International University (Croatia), previously University of Zagreb (Croatia), and prof. Domenico Laise, University of Rome La Sapienza, works on the VAIC (Value Added Intellectual Coefficient) and further development. In the Ifkad – International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics 2019, Gianpaolo Iazzolino was Keynote Speaker, in the 20th anniversary of the first proposal of the VAIC by Pulic

Conference Papers

• Iazzolino G., Laise D., Pulic A. (2019), “20 years of VAIC Value Added Intellectual Coefficient”, in Schiuma G., Demartini P., Yan M.R. (eds), Knowledge Ecosystems and Growth, Proceedings of 14^th IFKAD 2019, Matera, Italy, June 5-7, pp. 951-965 (ISBN: 978-88-96687-12-3); ISSN: 2280-787

In the same Conference Gianpaolo Iazzolino was keynote speaker ( https://www.ifkad.org/event/ifkad-2019;  ifkad.org/speaker/iazzolino/;)

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Collaboration, from 2018, with the Higher School of Economics and Business, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan for a doctoral training program of Dinara Zhaisanova (Динара Жайсанова), PhD candidate (Iazzolino foreign supervisor). Dinara spent a period of internship at Dimeg – Unical from September to December 2018. The collaboration, that includes the EBALab member Bruni, is focused on the topics of knowledge-intensive firms in emerging economies. Dinara received her PhD in June 2022 and is currently senior lecturer at the same University

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Working group, since 2019, with the University of Rome La Sapienza, prof. Cinzia Daraio. Other components: prof. Domenico Laise and research fellows at the Universities of Rome and Calabria. On October 31, 2019 Iazzolino gave a seminar at La Sapienza and after the group was launched on the topics of intellectual capital measurement

Conference Papers

1. Daraio C., Di Leo S., Iazzolino G., Laise D. (2022), “A scorecard-like proposal for measuring and reporting the gender dimension of Intellectual capital”, Proceedings XXXIII Riunione Scientifica Annuale AiIG Associazione italiana di Ingegneria Gestionale, Rome, October 20-21
2. Daraio C., Di Leo S., Iazzolino G., Laise D. (2022), “Measuring and reporting the gender dimension of intellectual capital: a scorecard-like proposal”, in Schiuma G., Bassi A. (eds), Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation, Proceedings of 17^th IFKAD 2022, Lugano, Switzerland, June 20-22, pp. 1583-1601
3. Daraio C., Iazzolino G., Laise D., Coniglio I.M., Di Leo S. (2021), “Mapping Intellectual Capital, Performance of Knowledge Organizations and Gender Equality: what are the existing links?”, in Rethinking Sustainability and Resilience after the Covid-19 pandemic. Developing Research and Education in Management Engineering, Proceedings XXXII Riunione Scientifica Annuale RSA AiIG 2021, Naples, October 21-22
4. Daraio C., Iazzolino G., Laise D., Coniglio I.M., Di Leo S. (2021), “Mapping Intellectual Capital and Performance of Knowledge Organizations: an Enriched Systematic Review”, in Schiuma G., Paoloni P., Paoloni M. (eds), Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times, Proceedings of 16^th IFKAD 2021, Rome, Italy, September 1-3, pp. 27-45
5. Daraio C., Iazzolino G., Laise D., Coniglio I.M., Di Leo S. (2020), “Meta-Choices in Ranking Knowledge-Based Organizations”, in Schiuma G. (eds), Knowledge in Digital Age, Proceedings of 15^th IFKAD 2020, Matera, Italy, September 9-11 (special blended edition), pp. 1583-159

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Working group, since 2020, with University of Cagliari, dr. Donato Morea, head of the management engineering group at the same university, on the topics of sustainability and impact of ESGs on firm performances. Bruni and Baldissarro, EBALab members, are included in the group. A PRIN project proposal was submitted with dr. Morea (Iazzolino principal investigator), currently under evaluation

Conference Papers

• Iazzolino G., Bruni M.E., Veltri S., Morea D., Baldissarro G. (2022), “Integrating ESG and financial soundness for firms’ portfolio selection”, Proceedings XXXIII Riunione Scientifica Annuale AiIG Associazione italiana di Ingegneria Gestionale, Rome, October 20-21

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Collaboration with University of Messina, prof. Vincenzo Corvello, on the topics of innovation and digitalization which involves Verteramo, Nocella and Iazzolino

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