Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos

Biography

Assimakopoulos is a full Professor at emlyon business school and founding Director of the EML Global DBA. He also serves as the President of the European Doctoral programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA), a faculty at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), a senior expert and Board member for the EFMD European Quality Link (EQUAL). Prior to joining EML, he worked as a senior professor, associate dean for research and director of DBA programs in Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Dimitris has been educated in civil engineering, architecture, planning and economic sociology in Greece, UK, France and the USA. His research has focused on the management of collaborative networks for technological and organizational innovation, the origins and evolution of technological communities in the context of emerging knowledge-based regional and industrial ecosystems. Dimitris has led or participated in several multi-million euros projects with world class organizations, such as CERN, Fraunhofer ISI, STMicroelectronics and Airbus group. He has been a European Commission ‘Marie Curie’ ESR and principal investigator, a visiting scholar in Sociology and the Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as a visiting professor in several Universities in the UK and China. He has published numerous books, chapters, project reports and articles in scholarly and professional journals. Teaching has varied focusing early on business geographics, GIS & MIS; and more recently on doctoral studies focusing on research design, quali- / quanti-tative methods, supervised to successful completion fifteen PhD and DBA theses; and up started the EIASM Eden SNA (Social Network Analysis), doctoral seminar with colleagues from Bocconi University, UC London and MIT Sloan. 

Research Interest

His research axes on four inter-related themes with several sub-themes currently being advanced in collaboration with colleagues and students from around the world:  I. Technology & Innovation Management • Communities shaping emerging technologies for socio-economic impact • Collaborative innovation networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems • Social networks, talent management and organizational performance II. ICT-enabled diffusion and Knowledge Management  • High-tech clusters and “glocal” competitiveness in ICT  • Tacit knowledge and ICT-enabled communities • Knowledge flows in new product development teams III. International Science and Technology Policy • Co-evolution of scientific and technological networks • Scientometrics for collaboration spotting and policy making • Innovation and quality management in China and its impact for European firms IV. Doctoral education in Management & Business Studies • Doctoral supervision and codes of practice for doctoral programs • Quality standards and internationalization of doctoral education • Innovation in doctoral studies in Management and Business