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Dell'era Claudio

Full Professor

Dell'era Claudio

Full Professor

Claudio Dell’Era is Full Professor in Design Thinking for Business at Politecnico di Milano, where he serves also as Co-Founder of LEADIN’Lab, the Laboratory of LEAdership, Design and INnovation.

He is also Director of the “Design Thinking for Business” and "FUTURES | Sense Making by System Thinking" Observatories of the School of Management –Politecnico di Milano.

He is the Co-Director of the Executive Programme in “Design-Driven Leadership” and the International Master in "Strategic Design for Innovation and Transformation" at the Polimi Graduate School of Management and Poli.Design.

He has published more than 100 journal papers, conference articles and chapters in edited books in the area of Innovation and Design Management.

Career

PHD: Management Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Research

The research activities developed by Claudio Dell’Era are concentrated in the areas of Design Thinking, Design Strategy and Design-Driven Innovation.

He is Director of the Observatory “Design Thinking for Business”: founded in 2017, the Observatory aspires to be the reference point for the community of innovators that adopt pioneering approaches such as Design Thinking.

He is also Project Leader of the International Research Project DT4B “Design Thinking for Business” developed in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, Imperial College Business School, Reykjavik University, Stockholm School of Economics.

Selected Publications

Mortati M.| Magistretti S.| Cautela C.| Dell'Era C. (2023), "Data in design: How big data and thick data inform design thinking projects", Technovation

Pham C.| Magistretti S.| Dell'Era C. (2023), "How do you frame ill-defined problems? A study on creative logics in action", Creativity and Innovation Management

Magistretti S.| Sanasi S.| Dell'Era C.| Ghezzi A. (2023), "Entrepreneurship as design: A design process for the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities", Creativity and Innovation Management, 32, 5-21

Pham C.| Magistretti S.| Dell'Era C. (2022), "The role of design thinking in Big Data innovations", Innovation: Organization and Management, 24, 290-314

Magistretti S.| Dell'Era C.| Verganti R.| Bianchi M. (2022), "The contribution of Design Thinking to the R of R&D in technological innovation", R&D Management, 52, 108-125

Community service

  • Co-Director of the Executive Programme in Design Thinking for Business and Innovation Management, 01/01/2010 - to date
  • Co-Director of the International Master , 01/01/2023 - to date
  • Member of the PhD Board - PhD Program in Management Engineering, 01/01/2016 - to date
  • Member of the editorial Team/Board - Journal of Product Innovation Management; Journal of Business Research, European Management Review, European Management Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management; International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, R&D Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Industry & Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Management, Business Horizons, and many others