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Alfonso Molina |
Alfonso Molina is Professor of Technology Strategy at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and has provided the scientific direction to the development of the Digital Youth Consortium, recently transformed into the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Italy.
Alfonso's research interests focus on theories of innovation and technology management and strategy, particularly on his sociotechnical constituencies approach, applied to understand and inform the strategic development of a variety of information and communication technologies and processes of industrial cluster-building. A particular interest has been to transform this academic theorisation into instruments of practical application for technology strategies. These include the "diamond of alignment", "evolving business plans", "trend-mapping", "evolving bottom-up roadmapping", "real-time evaluation methodology" and "dynamic strategy mapping".
Alfonso has worked on numerous occasions as advisor and consultant for various directorates of the European Community and has published numerous books, papers and reports on areas such as microprocessors, multimedia newspapers, information society, e-commerce for public administrations, technologies for major business and work challenges, models for extended enterprises, regional cluster-building, evaluation of entrepreneurship networks, Internet tourism, e-banking development, free/libre and open source software for e-government, ICT-based educational innovation and sustainable enterprises for e-inclusion. Alfonso also designed the original strategy for the Global Cities Dialogue, including the writing of its Helsinki Declaration now signed by over 180 cities from all over the world. He has worked with the cities of Rome, Stockholm and Edinburgh and he is former Chairman of the international juries of the Stockholm Challenge Award and the European Citizenship for All Award run by Telecities and Deloitte and Touche; and present Chairman of the international jury of Rome's Global Junior Challenge.