Pinelli Maria

PHD

Maria Pinelli is Assistant Professor Junior at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.


She is a Researcher in the Life Science Innovation Observatory.


She teaches in the course "Innovation in Health and Social Care".

Career

PhD: Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

Research

Her main research interests comprehend the impact assessment of healthcare innovations, innovation strategy in hospitals, responsible and frugal innovation.

In her research projects, she investigates the value of healthcare technologies for what concerns their clinical, organizational, economical, social and environmental impact.

Selected Publications

Pinelli, M., Lettieri, E., & Bernhard, F. (2025). Navigating the technological landscape in hospitals: A taxonomy of scanning and assessment integration types anchored in innovation orientation and specialization of care. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 212, 123986.


Pinelli, M., Gerardi, C., Lettieri, E., Maioru, M., Marone, L., Bertoldi, L., ... & Pellini, F. (2024). Comparison of Indocyanine Green with conventional tracers for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: A multidisciplinary evaluation of clinical effectiveness, safety, organizational and economic impact. PLoS One, 19(8), e0309336.


Moglia, A., Marsilio, L., Rossi, M., Pinelli, M., Lettieri, E., Mainardi, L., ... & Cerveri, P. (2023). Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence: A Holistic Approach to Multimodal Visualization and Extended Interaction in Knee Osteotomy. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 12, 279-290.


Pinelli, M., Manetti, S., & Lettieri, E. (2023). Assessing the social and environmental impact of healthcare technologies: Towards an extended social return on investment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(6), 5224.


Di Francesco, A., Pinelli, M., Lettieri, E., Toletti, G., & Galli, M. (2023). Towards a more inclusive society: the social return on investment (SROI) of an innovative ankle–foot orthosis for hemiplegic children. Sustainability, 15(5), 4361.

Grants, awards and Honours

Community service