Alvaro Pina Stranger

Bio

Alvaro is an associate professor in Management and the Manager of the EIT activities at the University of Rennes and the coordinator of the I&E Education. His mission is to develop a space where education, research and business may interact and trigger innovative ventures. Surrounded by numerous stakeholders, our centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a unique tool for fostering the local and European synergies needed for an education aimed at value creation and addressing societal challenges through new technologies.

The University of Rennes hosts four programmes within the Master school, the Doctoral school, a student pre-incubator and several European projects and innovation and business activities. We implement more than 400 hours of training in Innovation and Entrepreneurship per year, participates in several pedagogical projects on blended education at the European level and closely supports innovative projects in its pre-incubator. Our users and contributors range from master students to researchers, PhD candidates, entrepreneurs, experts, industrial, consultants, teachers and coaches.

Alvaro received his PhD in Management of Innovation from Paris-Dauphine University. His doctoral research focuses on technological transfer, innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge networks in the field of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.