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Almirall Mezquita, Esteve
Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director, Center for Innovation in Cities
Education
- Ph. D. in Management Sciences. FUNDACION ESADE
- Master of Research in Management Sciences.
- DEA in Artificial Intelligence. UPC-UB-URV
- Master Internacional de Gestió Empresarial. La Salle Bonanova - Manhattan College
- Enginyer Tècnic en Informàtica de Sistemes. UOC
- Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. University of Phoenix
Areas of interest
- SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Biography
Esteve Almirall serves as Associated Professor at Esade and Dtr. of the Center for Innovation in Cities. He lectured at various universities, including UC Berkeley, Purdue, UPF, UPC and EPFL. He has a mixed background in both AI and Management Sciences, particularly in Innovation.However, Esteve spent a previous life in the business IT sector with a career in consulting and banking where for many years Esteve was the youngest CTO in the Spanish banking industry, being the 1st in offering online transactions and the 2nd in online banking.
As an entrepreneur he founded several companies and participated in tech startups.In academics he has been involved in multiple programs and created a Smart Cities program together with the World Bank that was well attended. His last contribution was the creation of the Esade's Master in Business Analytics ranked #5 in the world in 2018 https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/business-masters-rankings/business-analytics/2019.
Esteve is passionate about the intersection between Digital Technologies and Innovation, in particular Smart Cities where he participated in multiple projects and congresses. He was one of the founders of the European Networks of Living Labs with +400 Living Labs around the world and coordinated several high-impact European Projects such as Open Cities or Commons for Europe and participated as principal researcher in many others totaling a budget of more than €29M.
Esteve also worked for the World Bank and the European Commission as an expert. He has been deeply involved in the Smart Cities movement and in Smart City Expo since its inception.
His research has been published in leading scientific journals such as Academy of Management Review, MISQ, Government Information Quarterly, HBR, CACM or California Management Review among others, totaling +80 publications.
He is also a frequent contributor to the general press such as Forbes, La Vanguardia, Via Empresa or El nacional among others, and a well-known public speaker.
As a recovering geek he prides himself on teaching Python, Julia, Machine Learning, Cloud Planforms and AWS as well as Competing with AI & Cloud, Smart Cities, Innovation and Management.
Selected publications
- Almirall, E. & Vives, L. (2024). Cómo la tecnología redefinirá el liderazgo y la dirección de empresas. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (350), pp. 48-51.
- Almirall, E. (2024). Open innovation in smart cities. The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation (pp. 407-422). Oxford University Press OUP. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192899798.013.24.
- Montakhabi, M., Madhusudan, A., Mustafa, M. A., Vanhaverbeke, W., Almirall, E. & Shenja van der, G. (2023). Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts. Big Data and Society, 10 (2), 20539517231205503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231205503.
- Almirall, E., Callegaro, D., Bruins, P., Santamaría, M., Martínez, P. & Cortés, U. (2022). Deep Air-A Smart City AI Synthetic Data Digital Twin Solving the Scalability Data Problems. In Cortes, A., Grimaldo, F. & Flaminio, T. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (pp. 83-86). IOS Press BV. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220319.
- Almirall, E. (2022). Implicaciones dle metaverso en el 'E-commerce'.
- Almirall, E. (2022). ¿Por qué la inteligencia artificial y el Cloud están en todas partes menos en tu empresa?.
- Tschang, F. T. & Almirall, E. (2021). Artificial intelligence as augmenting automation: Implications for employment. Academy of Management Perspectives, 35 (4), pp. 642-659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2019.0062.
- Almirall, E. (2021). Innovación y adopción de la Inteligencia Artificial y el Cloud: Una historia a dos velocidades.
- Almirall, E. (2021). Innovación y adopción de inteligencia artificial y 'cloud': Una historia a dos velocidades.
- Almirall, E. (2021). El mundo pos-COVID-19. ¿Qué quedará? ¿Qué pasará?.
- Almirall, E. & Ted Tschang, F. (2021). Covid-19 accelerating the dynamics of Artificial Intelligence disruption. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics (pp. 223-237). Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-89777-8.00004-X.
- Calzada, I. & Almirall, E. (2020). Data ecosystems for protecting European citizens' digital rights. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 14 (2), pp. 133-147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-03-2020-0047.
- Almirall, E., Cortés, U., Guerris, M., Ruiz Hontangas, A., Torrens, M., Valogianni, K. & Valor, J. (2020). Los retos éticos de la inteligencia artificial.
- Almirall, E. (2019). ¿Cómo sobrevivir al tsunami de la IA?.
- Brunswicker, S., Pujol Priego, L. & Almirall, E. (2019). Transparency in policy making: A complexity view. Government Information Quarterly, 36 (3), pp. 571-591. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.05.005.
- Almirall, E. & Calzada, I. (2019, June). Barcelona's grassroots-led urban experimentation: Deciphering the 'data commons' policy scheme [Paper presentation]. 4th Data for Policy 2019.
- Brunswicker, S., Almirall, E. & Majchrzak, A. (2019). Optimizing and satisficing: The interplay between platform architecture and producers' design strategies for platform performance. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 43 (4), pp. 1249-1277. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2019/13561.
- Almirall, E., Brunswicker, S., Majchrzak, A. & Tee, R. (2018). Cocreating value from open data: From incentivizing developers to inducing co-creation in open data ecosystems. Open innovation, ecosystems and entrepreneurship: Issues and perspectives (pp. 127-158). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813149083_0006.
- Brunswicker, S., Majchrzak, A., Almirall, E. & Tee, R. (2018). Cocreating value from open data. World Scientific Reference On Innovation (pp. 141-162). World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/10209.
- Almirall, E., Núñez Letamienda, L., Oliver, N. & Vives, L. (2018). Inteligencia artificial en los negocios.
- Bakici, T. & Almirall, E. (2017). Intervention intermediaries flourish: matching firms with solutions to complex needs. Journal of Business Strategy, 38 (4), pp. 21-29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JBS-04-2016-0039.
- Zobel, A. K., Almirall, E., Brunswicker, S., Dahlander, L., Frederiksen, L., Gawer, A., Gruber, M., Haefliger, S., Hagedoorn, J., Hilgers, D., Laursen, K., Magnusson, M. G., Majchrzak, A., McCarthy, I. P., Moeslein, K. M., Nambisan, S., Piller, F. T., Radziwon, A., Rossi-Lamastra, C., Sims, J. & Ter Wal, A. L. (2017). The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis. Industry and Innovation, 24 (1), pp. 8-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068.
- Almirall, E., Wareham, J., Ratti, C., Conesa, P., Bria, F., Gaviria, A. & Edmondson, A. (2016, November). Smart Cities at the crossroads: New tensions in city transformation. California Management Review, 59 (1), pp. 141-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125616683949.
- Cohen, B., Almirall, E. & Chesbrough, H. (2016). The city as a lab: Open innovation meets the collaborative economy. California Management Review, 59 (1), pp. 5-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125616683951.
- Almirall, E., Willmott, S. & Angehrn, A. (2016). Integrating social network concepts and game dynamics in innovation oriented collaboration systems. 2006 IEEE International Technology Management Conference, ICE 2006 (7477076). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2006.7477076.
- Sonsona, M. & Almirall, E. (2016). Enhancing Innovation with social recommendations. 2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference, ICE 2009 (7461374). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461374.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2016). Contributions of Living Labs in reducing market based risk. 2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference, ICE 2009 (7461372). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461372.
- Lee, M., Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2016). Open data and civic apps: First-generation failures, second- generation improvements. Communications of the ACM, 59 (1), pp. 82-89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2756542.
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2015). Innovation platforms: Intentions for participation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.14255abstract.
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2015, August). Innovation platforms: Intentions for participation [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall, E. (2015, August). Opening governance with a public intent: studying opening gevernance at multiple scales [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall, E. (2015, August). Researching open innovation: theoretical and empirical approaches at different levels of analysis [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall, E. & Brunswicker, S. (2015, July). Transparency design and generative governance of innovation in digital ecosystems [Paper presentation]. 3rd Annual Research Symposium on Complexity and IT, Montpellier 2015.
- Almirall, E. & Bakici, T. (2014, December). The underlying mechanisms of online open innovation intermediaries [Paper presentation]. 1st Annual World Open Innovation Conference WOIC 2014.
- Almirall, E., Lee, M. & Wareham, J. (2014). Open data & civic apps: 1st generation failures - 2nd generation improvements. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Almirall, E. (2014, June). Living labbing: The Southern approach [Paper presentation]. XXV ISPIM Conference 2014.
- Almirall, E. (2014, June). An ecological approach to diversity in open participatory strategies [Paper presentation]. The R&D Management Conference 2014.
- Almirall, E., Lee, M. & Majchrzak, A. (2014). Open innovation requires integrated competition-community ecosystems: Lessons learned from civic open innovation. Business Horizons, 57 (3), pp. 391-400. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2013.12.009.
- Domingo, A., Bellalta, B., Palacin, M., Oliver, M. & Almirall, E. (2013). Public open sensor data: Revolutionizing smart cities. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 32 (4), pp. 50-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2013.2286421.
- Bakici, T., Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2013). A Smart City Initiative: The Case of Barcelona. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 4 (2), pp. 135-148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-012-0084-9.
- Bakici, T., Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2013). The role of public open innovation intermediaries in local government and the public sector. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 25 (3), pp. 311-327. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2013.764983.
- Almirall, E., Lee, M. & Wareham, J. (2012). Mapping living labs in the landscape of innovation methodologies.
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2012). The underlying mechanisms of online open innovation intermediaries. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Almirall, E., Lee, M. & Wareham, J. (2011, October). Mechanisms of innovation in smart cities [Paper presentation]. eChallenges e-2011, Florence 2011.
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2011, June). Motives for participation in online open innovation platforms [Paper presentation]. DRUID 2011, Copenhagen 2011.
- Usart, M., Romero, M. & Almirall, E. (2011). Impact of the feeling of knowledge explicitness in the learners' participation and performance in a collaborative game based learning activity. Serious Games Development and Applications - Second International Conference, SGDA 2011, Proceedings (pp. 23-35). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23834-5_3.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2011). Living Labs: Arbiters of midand ground-level innovation. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 23 (1), pp. 87-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2011.537110.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2010). Innovation: A question of fit - the living labs approach. Service innovation yearbook 2010-2011 (pp. 24-37).
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2010). The underlying mechanisms of open innovation intermediaries. Service innovation yearbook 2010-2011 (pp. 56-65).
- Almirall, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. (2010, June). The underlying mechanisms of open innovation intermediaries [Paper presentation]. The R&D Management Conference 2010.
- Almirall, E. & Cortés, U. (2010). Cultural algorithms. Artificial Intelligence Research and Development (pp. 19-28). IOS Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-643-0-19.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2010). Living labs. Global Sourcing of Information Technology and Business Processes - 4th Global Sourcing Workshop 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 233-249). Springer Verlag. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15417-1_13.
- Almirall, E. & Casadesus-Masanell, R. (2010). Open versus closed innovation: A model of discovery and divergence. The Academy of Management Review, 35 (1), pp. 27-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2010.45577790.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2009, April). Innovation: A question of Fit. The Living Labs approach [Paper presentation]. 1st Symposium on Transversal Topics ESADE-HEC Barcelona 2009.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2009). Innovation. In Barbosa, P., Nunes, M. B. & Isaias, P., White, B., Rodrigues, L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2009, ICWI 2009 (pp. 349-353). IADIS.
- Almirall, E. (2008). El papel de las TIC en los procesos de Open Innovation.
- Almirall, E. (2008). The IT role in innovation.
- Almirall, E. (2008). El papel de la informática en la innovación.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2008). Living Labs and open innovation: Roles and applicability.
- Almirall, E. & Wareham, J. (2008). The role of living labs in open innovation. European living labs: A new approach for human centric regional innovation (pp. 147-158).