Vittorio Chiesa is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Department of Management Engineering), where he teaches Strategy & Marketing and Management of Energy in the Master’s Degree program in Management Engineering.
Since 2020, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of MIP Graduate School of Business (Graduate School of Management of Politecnico di Milano). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
He graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1984 and initially gained corporate experience at Ciba-Geigy and Pirelli. He earned a diploma in ‘Management of Research Development and Technology-based Innovation’ (summer program) at MIT in Boston. He has been a researcher at the National Research Council, Associate Professor at the University of Castellanza, and Full Professor at the University of Milano – Bicocca. In 1992, he was a Visiting Researcher at the London Business School, and in 2000, a Guest Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands).
At MIP Graduate School of Business (Business School of Politecnico di Milano), he is Director of the Master in Energy Management and the Executive Path in Energy Management.
He is the author of 6 books and over 200 publications in journals and international conference proceedings.
He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technology Forecasting and Planning and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management. He is also an Editorial Advisor for the R&D Management journal.
He was listed among the Top 60 World’s Innovation Management Scholars in an analysis covering the period 1991–2010.
He has coordinated and managed joint university-industry projects and technology transfer initiatives (funded by Fondazione Cariplo, Regione Lombardia, Cestec, Milan Chamber of Commerce, ENEA, UNIDO), as well as national interest projects (funded by MIUR, CNR) on energy sector analysis, green economy, innovation management, and the creation of university spin-offs and start-ups.
