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Esteve Almirall
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Harvard University
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
University of California, Berkeley

Phoenix University
IESE Business School
ESADE Business School
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
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Esteve Almirall (born 1959) is the director of the Center for Innovation Cities and profesor of Innovation in ESADE Business School. Founder of the Master in Management Science - Business Analytics (MIBA) in ESADE Business School, that was ranked #5 in the world in 2019, after only 2 years of life, by QS Business Master Rankings Top Universities Ranking 2019, Almirall is a researcher and keynote speaker in fields like Smart cities, Open Innovation, Technologies, AI, Complexity and Data Science.

Education and experience

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Almirall holds a PhD in Management Sciences (ESADE) , a MRes in Management Sciences, a MCIS, DEA and MRes in Artificial Intelligence (UPC) [1]. Moreover, he has a MBA and a PDD from IESE, a Diploma in Marketing from UC Berkeley and a GCPCL Diploma from Harvard Business School. Esteve Almirall is passionate about the intersection between technology and innovation and how IT is changing the way we innovate from the individual inventor to ecosystems, from owing and buying innovations to benefiting from innovations created by others by aligning incentives and motivations. Most of his career has been devoted to Information Technologies, especially in consulting, banking and finances where he worked for more than 20 years in executive and board level positions in IS, Organization and Marketing. As an entrepreneur, he participated and founded several start-ups in the field.

He is very active in fields such as Smart Cities, Innovation Ecosystems, Innovation in the Public Sector or User Innovation (particularly Living Labs). He has coordinated several large EU competitive projects and participated in more than ten of them as main researcher. He is often busy collaborating and organizing workshops, Open Data Challenges and conferences in these areas.

Academic career

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Almirall is currently teaching Competing with AI and Cloud in ESADE Business School, Complexity and Open Innovation. He also teaches Python, Julia, Machine Learning, Cloud Platforms and has an accreditation from AWS as Amazon Web Services Academy Accredited Ambassador & Associate and AWS Solutions Architect since 2017.He has been serving as Professor in EPFL (Lausanne), UPF (Barcelona), among others during the last years.

Research and publications

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Almirall has spent much of his professional life researching and has 79 papers published in research journals, including top level journals such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Academy of Management, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Technology Innovation Management Review, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, California Management Review, NESTA, and Government Information and Management Information Systems, among others. Likewise, he is regularly a member of Courts for Doctoral Thesis and Master's degrees. As a researcher, this academic has almost 4,000 citations in Google Scholar:

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