José David Barberá Tomás

Biography

David Barberá is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Dr. Barberá earned his PhD in Innovation Projects from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He spent seven years as a R&D Project Manager in a Spanish medical technology company, where he leaded numerous R&D Projects. Part of the results of those projects was reflected in three European Patents, where he figures as inventor with other researchers. Dr. Barberá academic research uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches for inquiry in several innovation domains, as innovation policy, medical innovation or social innovation. His research has been published in high impact journals in the field of Innovation Studies.One his works was included by Faculty of 1000 (F1000) in the top 2% of the most important papers in medicine and biology published in 2011, in the category “Statistical Methodologies”. His work was also awarded with the Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award of the OMT Division in the Academy of Management Meeting 2015. He has stayed as visiting researcher in institutions as UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Copenhaguen Business School or Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he presented his work in several research seminars.

Research Interest

technological trajectories, patent analysis, qualitative research, organizational studies, medical innovation, social innovation.