Andrea Piccaluga is the Director of the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna since 2018. He is professor of Innovation Management and delegate for internationalization at Netval, the Italian network of University Technology Transfer Offices, in which he has been vice-president from 2020 to 2022, after being president from 2014 to 2019. He holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and a Master in Technology and Innovation Management from SPRU (University of Sussex, Brighton).

He is Associate editor of the R&D Management Journal and Head of the International R&D Management Conference. He collaborates with large and medium-sized companies (Knauf, Loccioni, Venture Factory, Enel, Edra, BB, Gruppo Lupi, etc.) in the field of Open Innovation, with JRC, The Italian Patent Office and European Patent Office in the field of policies for entrepreneurship and technology transfer.