Letizia Mortara

Laurea, Diploma di Maturita’ Scientifica (Bologna), BSc (Bologna), PhD (Cranfield)

College roles

Fellow (D)
Director of Studies in Engineering Manufacturing (Part IIA; IIB)
Postgraduate Mentor

University roles

Associate Professor at the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering

Biography

Dr Letizia Mortara is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering. She is also an Associate Editor for the R&D Management journal and leads the R&D Management conference Office. Letizia’s research focuses on Technological Decision Making with the aim to improve organisational response to fast-changing technological and innovation contexts, and propose management tools and approaches that can support the taking of such decisions. In particular, she concentrates on three areas of work:.

• Cognition in Technology Management. How do managers cognitively respond to different technology management approaches for highly uncertain scenarios?
• Decision-making strategies for technology emergence.  How do firms adapt their businesses to face fast-changing environments? Which approaches are more successful in the long term?  How do organisations learn from their decisions?
• Cross-organisational strategies for societal impact. Many societal problems of today require trans-organizational decision-making. Collaborative approaches such as Open Innovation might be pivotal in resolving the more systemic of societal problems. How do Open Innovation approaches enable the achievement of societal impact?