Mehdi Bagherzadeh

Mehdi Bagherzadeh holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences (cum laude and international distinctions) and a Master of Research in Management Sciences from ESADE Business School, Spain. He is currently a Professor of Innovation Management and the Research Director at NEOMA Business School, France, where he previously held the positions of Head of Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Head of the MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI), Purdue University, U.S.A. In addition, he is Area Editor at Technovation. Prof. Bagherzadeh’s research interests include open and collaborative innovation, governance dynamics of inter-organizational collaboration, crowdsourcing, and team dynamics. His research has been published in renowned international academic journals, including Journal of Management, Academy of Management Discoveries, Industrial and Corporate Change, European Journal of Operational Research, Public Administration Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business & Society. He 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.