Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Economics, Finance and Control

Assimakopoulos is a full Professor at emlyon business school and founding Director of the EML Global DBA. He also serves as the President of the European Doctoral programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA), a faculty at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), a senior expert and Board member for the EFMD European Quality Link (EQUAL). Prior to joining EML, he worked as a senior professor, associate dean for research and director of DBA programs in Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Dimitris has been educated in civil engineering, architecture, planning and economic sociology in Greece, UK, France and the USA. His research has focused on the management of collaborative networks for technological and organizational innovation, the origins and evolution of technological communities in the context of emerging knowledge-based regional and industrial ecosystems. Dimitris has led or participated in several multi-million euros projects with world class organizations, such as CERN, Fraunhofer ISI, STMicroelectronics and Airbus group. He has been a European Commission ‘Marie Curie’ ESR and principal investigator, a visiting scholar in Sociology and the Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as a visiting professor in several Universities in the UK and China. He has published numerous books, chapters, project reports and articles in scholarly and professional journals. Teaching has varied focusing early on business geographics, GIS & MIS; and more recently on doctoral studies focusing on research design, quali- / quanti-tative methods, supervised to successful completion fifteen PhD and DBA theses; and up started the EIASM Eden SNA (Social Network Analysis), doctoral seminar with colleagues from Bocconi University, UC London and MIT Sloan.

EDUCATION

• 2002 Accreditation to Direct Research (H.D.R.) in Economics,
• University of Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendes France)
• 1997 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Sheffield , UK
• 1992 Master of Architectural Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
• 1989 Diploma of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

AWARDS

• 2010 – 2014: PI (Principal Investigator) award at GEM LINC lab and Chair of the Advanced Training Group for the EC ManETEI (Management of Emerging Technologies for Economic Impact) Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN-FP7) www.manetei.eu – total budget (€4M), with the following partners: Leeds University (Co-ordinator) Business School / Nano-Manufacturing Institute, Rotterdam School of Management, Aalto University, University of Ljubljana, Instituto de Empresa Business School Madrid, University College Dublin Smurfit School of Business, Fraunhofer ISI, Bayer Technology Services, Intel Labs and STMicroelectronics.

• 2010 –2011: PI award at GEM LINC lab for the ‘Hadron Accelerators for Health’ project total budget (€15K), in collaboration with the University of Virginia (USA), supported by the CERN’s HEP (High Energy Physics) Technology Transfer Network and GSI’s (German Heavy Ion research lab) Technology Transfer Office on how the HEP community has developed innovative treatments for incurable cancers, through knowledge transfer in radiology and oncology related disciplines and communities (this inspired the CERN Collaboration Spotting platform: http://collspotting.web.cern.ch/ ).

• 2006 – 2009: PI award at GEM LINC Lab and Chair of the Steering Committee of the MATRI ‘Méthode d’ Anticipation des Transformations Industrielles’ project, funded by the EC DG Employment and Social Affairs (total budget €1.8M), in collaboration with the following partners: STMicroelectronics, INPG, CAPGEMINI and Confédération Française de l'Encadrement (France); ISTUD, Politecnico di Torino and Confederazione Italiana Dirigenti (Italy); Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation research (ISI); Henley Management College; Confédération Européenne des Cadres.

• 2002 –2004: Senior Researcher award at GEM, for the MEDFORIST ‘Euro-Mediterranean Network for sharing IST learning resources’ project (total budget €2.1M), of the EUMEDIS initiative developing a course on e-Commerce: focus on e-Travel / e- Tourism, with partners in 14 countries, training the trainers and developing the E-commerce curricula in Universities & Business Schools in S. Europe, N. Africa and Middle East.

• 2002 –2003: Senior Expert appointed by the DG Information Society of the EC to review the project ERP-TEX ‘Internet Oriented Distributed ERP for Managing Textile Company’ (IST-2000-52032), within the EC’s FP5 for RTD.

• 1999 – 2001: Project Director and PI award at the Hull University Business School for a project on ‘Employment and Innovation in SMEs’ funded by the Yorkshire and Humberside Universities Association (£67K over 18 months) as part of the European Social Fund Higher Level Skills program, in collaboration with Sheffield University Management School.

• 1997 – 1999: UK ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) Post-doctoral Research fellow award (European Context of Science Policy award) for 24 months at the Management School, University of Sheffield, UK.

• 1994-1996: European Science Foundation (ESF) GISDATA fellowship (part-time) and EC Copernicus fellowship (part-time) at the Department of Town & Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK

• 1992-1994: EC DG Research award, ‘Marie Curie’ doctoral fellow (Human Capital and Mobility) for 24 months at the Department of Town & Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK

EXPERIENCE

• 2016 – current: Professor in Information Systems, Technology & Innovation Management at EML and Founding Director of the EML Global Executive DBA
• 2015 – current: Visiting Professor, Durham University Business School, UK.
• 2003 – 2015: Professor at the GEM Department of Management Technology & Strategy
  
• 2007 – 2015: Founder & Director of the GEM Laboratory on Learning & Innovation in Networks & Communities (LINC Lab)
• 2001 – 2015: GEM Founder & Director of the joint DBA with Newcastle University, UK
• 2001 – 2010: GEM DBA Program Director with the Tongji University, China.
• 2004 – 2007: GEM Associate Dean for Research
• 2004: Visiting Scholar in Economic Sociology and the Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
• 2001 – 2002: GEM Associate Professor in Information Systems and Technology Management, Department of Management Technology & Strategy
  
• 2000 – 2001: Director of the Ph.D. and M.Phil. programs, Business School, University of Hull, UK
• 2000 – 2001: Director of the B.Sc. programs on Management Science and Information Management, Business School, University of Hull
• 1999: Visiting Scholar in Economic Sociology, Stanford University, California, USA (sponsored by Professor Mark Granovetter)
• 1999 – 2001: Lecturer in Information Systems, Business School, University of Hull
• 1989 – 1991: Research Associate, Laboratory of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

Ad-hoc reviewer for several leading management journals and Co-founder and Co-Editor in Chief, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, (2002 – current)13 volumes ISSN online: 1741-5179print: 1461-4111

ASSOCIATIONS

Member of the following professional Associations: Academy of Management, European Academy of Management, Association for R&D Management plus specific service at the last decade:

From May 2015, Board member and Senior Expert for the EFMD EQUAL

June 2015, co-Chair of the track on R&D Ecosystems and Platforms, at the R&D Management Conference, held at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Management Studies, Pisa University.

Sept. 2013, Elected as the fourth President of EDAMBA (re-elected in York University, UK, in 2014 and in Aix-Marseille University, in 2015).

January 2013 to 2016, Founder and Chair for the inaugural to the 5th EDAMBA – EIASM Consortia on Doctoral Supervision and the New Global Research Landscape, organized by the EIASM, hosted by the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain; and the LINC Lab at GEM.

June 2009 to 2016 Founder and Coordinator for the EDEN seminars on ‘Social Network Analysis – SNA: Theory and Methods’ with fellow faculty from the IESE Business School, MIT Sloan and UCL Management Science, for the EIASM, held in Brussels, Belgium; and Santorini, Greece.

July 2008-2015, Chair for the EURAM Track / topic on ‘Innovation in Chinese Firms’ (SIG: Innovation) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conferences.

Sept. 2012, Elected as the Vice-President of EDAMBA at the annual meeting, University of Uppsala.

December 2010, Expert for the CERN ‘Technology Transfer Network’ for the development of Collaboration Spotting platform, Geneva, Switzerland. September 2010, Faculty at the 20th European Doctoral Summer School on Technology Management, organized by the EIASM, held at the Sant’Anna School, Pisa University, Italy. March 2008 to 2012, Founder and Chair of the inaugural to the 3rd EDAMBA Winter Academies on ‘Doctoral Supervision and the Global Research System’ for junior faculty hosted by LINC Lab, held at GEM, http://edamba-gem.sciencesconf.org/

June 2009, Invitation for a session on ‘Organizational Network Analysis & New Product Development’ for the Confederation of European Managers (CEC), at the European Parliament, Strasbourg.

October 2008-2013, Member of the Peer Review College at the Danish Strategic Research Council, for the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sept. 2007, Invitation in the Deans’ and Directors’ Meeting of CEEMAN – Panel on the Role of International Associations (EDAMBA), held at the Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. May 2006, Invitation by the British Academy of Management (BAM) / Association of Business Schools (ABS) to give a keynote on ‘Partnerships in Doctoral Education’ at the BAM/ABS ‘Innovation and the DBA’ Community Conference held at Durham University, UK.

RESEARCH INTEREST

My research axes on four inter-related themes with several sub-themes currently being advanced in collaboration with colleagues and students from around the world: I. Technology & Innovation Management

• Communities shaping emerging technologies for socio-economic impact

• Collaborative innovation networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems

• Social networks, talent management and organizational performance

II. ICT-enabled diffusion and Knowledge Management

• High-tech clusters and “glocal” competitiveness in ICT

• Tacit knowledge and ICT-enabled communities

• Knowledge flows in new product development teams

III. International Science and Technology Policy

• Co-evolution of scientific and technological networks

• Scientometrics for collaboration spotting and policy making

• Innovation and quality management in China and its impact for European firms

IV. Doctoral education in Management & Business Studies

• Doctoral supervision and codes of practice for doctoral programs

• Quality standards and internationalization of doctoral education

• Innovation in doctoral studies in Management and Business