Pedro Oliveira

Pedro Oliveira is Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School; Gulbenkian Chair Professor for the Impact Economy and Invited Full Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics (NovaSBE).

He is the Founder and President of Patient Innovation (a non-profit spin-off of his research dedicated to facilitating the sharing of innovative solutions developed by patients/caregivers for themselves, via an online platform); Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures at Cornell University; co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding; member of the Environment and Sustainability Board of Energias de Portugal – EDP and Principal Investigator of several research grants.

Previously he was a Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, where he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Academic Director of the Lisbon MBA, and Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management and Advisor to the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

He received his PhD in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; his M.Sc. in Operations Research and Systems Engineering; and his "licenciatura" in Naval Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. He also completed some advanced training at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Primary research areas

• Open and User Innovation
• Patient Innovation
• Healthcare Innovation and Operations
• User Entrepreneurship
• Service Operations Management

Courses

• The Economics of Health care Innovation (IHC master program)
• The Health Care Innovation Project (IHC master program)
• Open and User innovation in Healthcare (AMP in health innovation)
• Health Care Innovation Management (IHC master course)