Publication Authors: Lara Agostini

Using Intelligent Knowledge to Offer Digital Services: a Lean Startup Interpretation
Clara Filosa, Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella
Digital servitization (DS) enables manufacturing firms to transition from product-centric offerings to digitally enabled product-service systems (PSSs). Despite its strategic potential, DS represents a challenging transformation for incumbent manufacturers, characterized by technological, data-driven, and business model uncertainty. While prior research conceptualizes DS as a strategic and organizational shift, limited attention has been paid to the [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2026: Intelligent Knowledge for Sustainable Organizations
PP: 227-234
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Resilience in Healthcare: an Investigation into the State of the Art
Alessandro Stefanini, Lara Agostini, Rossella Onofrio, Carmela Piccolo
Recent major health shocks like the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak, the Zika outbreak, and, last but not least, the Covid-19 pandemic have strongly contributed to drawing attention to the issue of resilience of health systems, because health authorities and organizations experienced severe difficulties in managing these crises. The concept of resilience is assuming a central role [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 - Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
PP: 1728-1741
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The Role of Patent Organization for the Successful Implementation of Patent Strategy
Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Marcus Holgersson
With the purpose of verifying the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their PM core processes, and testing the impact of the interplay between PM supporting dimensions, namely patent strategy and organization for patenting, on the level of sophistication of PM core processes, we collected data from 82 [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 - Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
PP: 566-584
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Digitalization and Business Model Change in Manufacturing SMEs: an Explorative Investigation
Marco Paiola, Lara Agostini, Roberto Grandinetti, Anna Nosella
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (I4.0) is dramatically affecting firms’ strategies, transforming their business models. In particular, a bunch of technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), cloud platforms, big data, and data analysis are offering firms the possibility to manage products functions, remotely and globally, kickstarting the design of innovative business models. The aim of this [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 - Knowledge in Digital Age
PP: 1006-1019
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Business Model Innovation in the Space Industry
Lara Agostini, Davide Aloini, Loretta Latronico, Valentina Lazzarotti, Anna Nosella, Luisa Pellegrini
The Copernicus Programme leaded by ESA (European Space Agency) has/is released/ing a huge amount of Earth Observation data and therefore firms operating in the Space Industry aim at getting most out of them. However, this is not straightforward in that, to be exploited, data need to be processed and interpreted and this, on its turn, [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 - Knowledge in Digital Age
PP: 833-846
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Open innovation with scientific partners and patenting: the moderating role of the internal context for innovation
Lara Agostini, Lars Bengtsson, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Anna Nosella, Luisa Pellegrini, Ioana Stefan
This paper aims at investigating how the degree of openness, in a depth conception (Laursen and Salter, 2006) and with scientific partners is associated to innovation performance, measured through the number of patent application. Moreover, we provide a detailed and contextual analysis which assigns to a multifaceted setting for innovation a crucial role in shaping [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 - Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
PP: 644-660
See all publications by each of the following authors: Anna Nosella, Ioana Stefan, Lara Agostini, Lars Bengtsson, Luisa Pellegrini, Raffaella Manzini, Valentina Lazzarotti
SME strategic networks: how to achieve the commitment of partners
Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Karen Venturini
To hinder the high failure rate of strategic networks, recently scholars have concentrated on behavioral aspects such as trust, conflict management, resolution and commitment as fundamental antecedents of strategic network performance (Christoffersen, 2013). Within this context, this article focuses on the antecedents of commitment, based on the rationale that high levels of commitment cannot occur [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 - Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
PP: 232-245
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Internal and external determinants of SME patenting
Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella, Benedetta Soranzo
Purpose – Considered that the boundaries between the firm and its surrounding environment are increasingly porous, allowing the use of both internal and external innovative ideas and commercial paths to create technological outcomes, this article aims to unveil both internal and external determinants of SME patenting. Design/methodology/approach – We propose an econometric approach based on [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2015 - Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Connecting the Knowledge Dots
PP: 439-451
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Unveiling knowledge flows in the automotive innovation environment using patents and citations
Lara Agostini, Federico Caviggioli
Purpose – In the last years, researchers have shown that innovation processes are veering towards an “open innovation” approach whereby innovating firms rely increasingly on contributions by external partners (Chesbrough, 2003). In particular, the automobile manufacturing industry is a typically complex technical environment where the cooperation in knowledge creation is very extensive (Lin and Cao, [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2014 - Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
PP: 3766-3792
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A management model for sustainable SMEs marketing networks: it’s all about knowledge
Lara Agostini
Purpose – This paper has two main aims: the first is to explore the development process of marketing networks, which are much less studied than R&D networks; the second is to identify those organizational and managerial factors that are supposed to have an influence on the success of a SMEs marketing network, given that the [...]
IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2014 - Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
PP: 2848-2880
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