Institutional appointments: Alberto Di Minin, full professor of Economics and Business Management, is the new Dean of the Academic Class of Social Sciences for the three-year period 2025-2028

Alberto Di Minin, full professor of Economics and Business Management, is the new dean of the Academic Class of Social Sciences. Di Minin succeeds Professor Anna Loretoni and will remain in office for the three-year period 2025-2028. The new Dean received best wishes and congratulations on his appointment from Rector Nicola Vitiello and the entire School community.

"The activities of the Social Sciences Class must be a laboratory for stimulating and mobilising the talents of our students. We are living in complex times characterised by great change: our task is not only to transmit knowledge, but also to educate students to think responsibly and critically, preparing them to make a difference in society" comments Alberto Di Minin.

The composition of the Academic Class of Social Sciences

The Academic Class of Social Sciences at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies currently consists of 32 full professors, 27 associate professors and 34 researchers. The number of students enrolled in the disciplines of Economics, Political Science, Law and Data Science is 167.

Open Innovation and new business models

Alberto Di Minin, a former student of the Sant'Anna School of Economics, obtained his Master's degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He then returned to the School as a researcher, becoming Full Professor of Economics and Business Management in 2019. He specialises in innovation management and has held institutional roles at the Ministry of Universities, the European Commission and the OECD.

Di Minin's main fields of research concern innovation management and new business models. In particular, he deals with various aspects of open innovation management. He currently collaborates with the National Biodiversity Future Centre and is Editor-in-Chief of the R&D Management Journal.