Silvia Massini

Silvia Massini is the Head of the Innovation Management and Policy (IMP) Division at the Alliance Manchester Business School.  She is a member of the Senate (2015-) and the Board of Governors (2016-) at the University of Manchester.  Prior to this she was Associate Head of Research in IMP, a Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) and Head of the Innovate and Sustain Subject Group in the IMP division.  She joined Manchester School of Management at UMIST in January 2000. Silvia was Research Fellow at the Centre for Creativity Strategy and Change (CCSC), Warwick Business School (1999). Prior to that, she has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Scientific Research and Documentation Studies (ISRDS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, and at the Policy Research in Engineering Science and Technology (PREST) at the University of Manchester. She has been a visiting research fellow at Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and at the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester. Silvia holds Laura (Cum Laude) in Statistics and Economics (La Sapienza University, Rome), MSc in Economics (Warwick University), Doctorate in Economics (La Sapienza University, Rome). She has been Visiting Scholar at Duke University April-September 2007.

Companies

• Head of the Innovation Management and Policy Division Alliance Manchester Business School (2017)
• Elected Member of the Board of Governors The University of Manchester (2016)
• Elected Member of the Senate The University of Manchester (2015)
• Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation Manchester Business School (2012)
• Associate Head of Research in the Innovation Management and Policy Division Alliance Manchester Business School (2016 — 2017)
• Director of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School University of Manchester (2011 — 2015)
• Head of Innovate and Sustain group Manchester Business School (2012 — 2013)
• Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Economics and Management of Innovation Manchester Business School (2000 — 2012)
• Visiting Professor Duke University (2007 — 2007)

Education

• Doctorate Sapienza Università di Roma
• MSc University of Warwick (1995 — 1996)
• Laurea Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'