Karen Venturini

Karen Venturini is a professor in the Department of Economics, Sciences, Engineering and Design at the University of San Marino (UNIRSM). She teaches business planning, project management and innovation management in the degree programs in Design, Communication and Digital Media, and Management Engineering. She has taught courses at the University of Parma and the Luiss Business School. In 2013 she obtained her PhD in Management Engineering with a thesis on the transfer of aerospace technologies to the industrial system. She is a member of the scientific board of the PhD in Management Engineering at UNIRSM and is the Rector's delegate for Innovation. She has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore (India), the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (India), ESPM in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and shortly at the Xiamen Institute of Technology (China). Her main research interests concern the fields of innovation management in the aerospace sector, open innovation, the organization of corporate research, startups and spinoffs, and sustainable innovation in packaging. She has numerous participations in conferences and publications in international journals.