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bio:

Vito Albino is professor in Innovation and Project Management at the Politecnico di Bari in Italy. At the same university, he is the founder of the Knowledge Management Lab and the vice-rector for research and technology transfer. Vito is now also member of the board of Consiglio di Territorio Sud Continentale, a group of experts set up from the UniCredit S.p.A,, the largest Italian Bank, to sustain the development of the business sector in South Italy, and Special Commissioner of the Agency for Technology and Innovation (ARTI) of the Apulian Region (Italy).

After the laurea degree in mechanical engineering, Vito has been visiting researcher at the University of Cincinnati from 1986 to 1987 before to start his academic career as researcher at the University of Basilicata in 1988. He became associate professor at the same university and then he moved to the Politecnico di Bari as professor.

Visiting professor at University of South Florida (Tampa), he gave lectures and seminars in many universities in USA and in Europe.

In 2003 he co-founded the European Sustainability Group, a group of organizations, researchers and consultants in Europe who are actively working to create a sustainable world, through creatively learning together, sharing insights and developing practical capacity for sustainability in the organizations they work with.

From the same year he chaired for six years the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale at the Politecnico di Bari and from 2007 to 2009 he was the president of the Board of the Italian Association of Business Engineering (AiIG).

In 2003 Vito served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Ministry of University and Research for the internationalization of the Italian university system, and two years later as an expert of the European Union in the area Innovative Environment for the project Information Society Network (URBACT Programme). In 2008 he was the Italian scientific coordinator of the research project “Sustainability Knowledge Integration Mechanisms (SKIMs) and Green Product Strategies in Canada and Italy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective” granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In 2010 he has been co-director of the course “Sustainable Strategies and Operations” at the Columbia University and scientific responsible of the project “A review and synthesis of research on the use of alternative energy sources in cement manufacturing”, granted by the Network for Business Sustainability (Canada).

From 2012 and 2013 he has been vice-rector for the Industrial Liaison Office at the Politecnico di Bari. From 2014 to 2016 (November) he has been the president of the Apulian technology district for Mechatronics (MEDIS).

His research fields are related to innovation processes in production chains and industrial clusters with particular interest to environmental aspects.

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-2683|*|0000-0001-7967-2683

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