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Irene Tinagli is Assistant Professor at the University Carlos III in Madrid, where she teaches Management and Organizations and conducts research on innovation policies and regional development. She received her PhD in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she also earned her Master of Science in Public Policy.
Her research focuses on innovation, creativity and regional development, and looks at the social and cultural dimensions of creativity and innovation and their linkages with economic development. She works at two levels: micro and macro. At the micro level, she studies the antecedents and mechanisms of people’s creative processes and innovativeness and identifies policies to motivate and stimulate individuals to engage in innovative/entrepreneurial behavior. At the macro level she explores the geographic distribution of human capital and innovative activities and investigates the sources of regional growth, innovation and competitiveness, studying and benchmarking hundreds of cities and regions worldwide. Her work on the creative potential of cities and regions has been featured in international journals and newspapers such as Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times.
She also serves as an Expert for the European Commission on Creativity and Innovation and has consulted for the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the United Nations as well as for several national, regional and city governments and development agencies.
On March 2010 she was appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
She writes for the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
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