Niri Mehdi Bagherzadeh

Mehdi Bagherzadeh is an Associate Professor of Innovation Management with the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and the founder and the Academic Director of the M.Sc. Entrepreneurship & Innovation program, NEOMA Business School. He received the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in management sciences from ESADE Business School in 2016. He is currently the Reviewing Editor of Technovation. He is also a senior research fellow at the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI), Purdue University. His research interests include open and collaborative innovation, governance dynamics of inter-organizational collaboration, crowdsourcing, and team dynamics. His research has been published in academic journals, such as Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He co-edited a special issue on open innovation from a project-level perspective for Industrial Marketing Management. Mehdi has been involved in several research projects supported by KPMG France, Accenture Institute for High Performance, USC Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), and Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation.

Areas of research

• Open innovation
• Interorganizational Collaboration
• Crowdsourcing
• Team dynamics

## Companies

• Associate Professor of Innovation Management NEOMA Business School (2020)
• Reviewing editor Technovation (2020)
• Academic Director, M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation NEOMA Business School (2019)
• Research Fellow Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) - Purdue University (2015)
• Assistant Professor of Innovation Management NEOMA Business School (2016 — 2020)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lecturer ESADE Business & Law School (2012 — 2016)
• Visiting Scholar Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) - Purdue University (2015 — 2015)
• Visiting Scholar USC Marshall School of Business (2014 — 2015)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) ESADE Business & Law School (2012 — 2016)
• Master’s Degree ESADE Business & Law School (2011 — 2012)
• Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Malek-Ashtar Industrial University (2007 — 2010)