Professorat i Investigació
Directori
Almirall Mezquita, Esteve
Professor ordinari, Departament d'Operacions, Innovació i Data Sciences a
Esade
Professor titular URL
Director, Center for Innovation in Cities
Formació acadèmica
- 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
Biografia
Esteve Almirall té un PhD en Management Sciences ESADE, un MRes en Management Sciences,
un MCIS, un DEA y un MRes en Intel·ligència Artificial UPC. La major part de la seva
activitat professional ha estat relacionada amb les Tecnologies de la Informació,
particularment en consultoria, banca i finances a on ha treballat més de 20 anys en
posicions executives dins de les àrees de Sistemes d'Informació, Organització i Marketing.
Com emprenedor ha fundad algunes startups en aquest camp. Esteve també té un MBA,
un PDD per l'IESE, un Diploma en Marketing per Berkeley y un Diploma en ensenyament
a partir de casos GCPCL per la Harvard Business School.Esteve és un apassionat de
la intersecció entre innovació i tecnologia i com les Tecnologies de la Informació
estan canviant la manera en que innovem, des de l'inventor solitari als ecosistemes
d'innovació, de tenir que desenvolupar o adquirir les innovacions a fi de poder beneficiar-nos
d'elles a capturar valor alineant els incentius i les motivacions com fan Apple i
Google amb les appstores. Es doncs molt actiu en temes com Smart Cities, Ecosistemes
d'Innovació, Innovació en el Sector Públic i Innovació d'Usuari particularment Lving
Labs. Esteve ha coordinat varis projectes Europeus i n'ha participat com a investigador
principal en més d'una decena. Es freqüent trobar-lo ocupat organitzant workshops,
competicions d'Open Data o conferències al voltant d'aquests temes.Esteve és un conferenciant
reconegut en camps com Open Innovation al Sector Públic, Smart Cities o Living Labs
a Europa, Asia i Amèrica. Es consultor del World Bank, conseller de l'ENoLL European
Network of LIving Labs i membre del OIPSG Open Innovation Policy and Strategy Board
de la Comissió Europea. Ha treballat com expert en aquestes àrees per diverses organitzacions,
corporacions locals, regionals i la Comissió Europea.Esteve té més de 30 publicacions
en journals i conferencies, incloent-hi publicacions d'alt impacte i reconegudes revistes
com HBR Harvard Business Review y ha dirigit varies tesis de Master i Doctorat.
Publicacions destacades
- Montakhabi, M., Madhusudan, A., Mustafa, M. A., Vanhaverbeke, W., Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. (2022). Implicaciones dle metaverso en el 'E-commerce'.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2022). ¿Por qué la inteligencia artificial y el Cloud están en todas partes menos en tu empresa?.
- Tschang, F. T. & Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. (2021). Innovación y adopción de la Inteligencia Artificial y el Cloud: Una historia a dos velocidades.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2021). Innovación y adopción de inteligencia artificial y 'cloud': Una historia a dos velocidades.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2021). El mundo pos-COVID-19. ¿Qué quedará? ¿Qué pasará?.
- Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E., Cortés, U., Guerris, M., Ruiz Hontangas, A., Torrens Arnal, M., Valogianni, K. & Valor, J. (2020). Los retos éticos de la inteligencia artificial.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2019). ¿Cómo sobrevivir al tsunami de la IA?.
- Brunswicker, S., Pujol Priego, L. & Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E., Núñez Letamienda, L., Oliver, N. & Vives De Prada, L. (2018). Inteligencia artificial en los negocios.
- Bakici, T. & Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E., Wareham, J. D., 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2015). Innovation platforms: Intentions for participation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.14255abstract.
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2015, August). Innovation platforms: Intentions for participation [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2015, August). Opening governance with a public intent: studying opening gevernance at multiple scales [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2015, August). Researching open innovation: theoretical and empirical approaches at different levels of analysis [Paper presentation]. 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
- Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Bakici, T. (2014, December). The underlying mechanisms of online open innovation intermediaries [Paper presentation]. 1st Annual World Open Innovation Conference WOIC 2014.
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Lee, M. J. & Wareham, J. D. (2014). Open data & civic apps: 1st generation failures - 2nd generation improvements. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2014, June). Living labbing: The Southern approach [Paper presentation]. XXV ISPIM Conference 2014.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2014, June). An ecological approach to diversity in open participatory strategies [Paper presentation]. The R&D Management Conference 2014.
- Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E., Lee, M. J. & Wareham, J. D. (2012). Mapping living labs in the landscape of innovation methodologies.
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2012). The underlying mechanisms of online open innovation intermediaries. ESADE working paper (79796).
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Lee, M. J. & Wareham, J. D. (2011, October). Mechanisms of innovation in smart cities [Paper presentation]. eChallenges e-2011, Florence 2011.
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2011, June). Motives for participation in online open innovation platforms [Paper presentation]. DRUID 2011, Copenhagen 2011.
- Usart, M., Romero, M. & Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (2010). Innovation: A question of fit - the living labs approach. Service innovation yearbook 2010-2011 (pp. 24-37).
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2010). The underlying mechanisms of open innovation intermediaries. Service innovation yearbook 2010-2011 (pp. 56-65).
- Almirall Mezquita, E., Bakici, T. & Wareham, J. D. (2010, June). The underlying mechanisms of open innovation intermediaries [Paper presentation]. The R&D Management Conference 2010.
- Almirall Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Casadesus-Masanell, R. (2010). Open vs. closed innovation: A model of discovery and divergence. The Academy of Management Review, 35, pp. 27-47.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, 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 Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (2009, April). Innovation: A question of Fit. The Living Labs approach [Paper presentation]. 1st Symposium on Transversal Topics ESADE-HEC Barcelona 2009.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (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 Mezquita, E. (2008). El papel de las TIC en los procesos de Open Innovation.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2008). The IT role in innovation.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. (2008). El papel de la informática en la innovación.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (2008). Living Labs and open innovation: Roles and applicability.
- Almirall Mezquita, E. & Wareham, J. D. (2008). The role of living labs in open innovation. European living labs: A new approach for human centric regional innovation (pp. 147-158).