Teaching
Teaching is where research and practice meet. I see the classroom as a space to work through ideas that are still open — where students push back, ask uncomfortable questions, and occasionally point out things I hadn’t considered. Most of what I teach sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and organisational behaviour, and I try to keep that connection to real problems visible throughout.
I teach at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Over the years I have also taught at Rennes School of Business and supervised master’s students in France, Spain, and Sweden.
Courses
Innovation Management is the course I have taught longest and feel most at home in. We start from a simple question — why do some organisations innovate more than others? — and follow the evidence wherever it leads: open innovation, knowledge networks, absorptive capacity, ecosystems, the role of individuals and teams. By the end, students should be sceptical of simple answers and equipped with frameworks to build better ones.
Strategic Management is about how firms choose where to compete and how to win there. I am particularly interested in the behavioural side of strategy — how cognition, risk attitudes, and social dynamics shape decisions that look rational in retrospect but are anything but in the moment.
Research Methods at the graduate level is something I genuinely enjoy, possibly because research design is where intellectual honesty is most visible. We cover quantitative and qualitative approaches, survey methodology, structural equation modelling, social network analysis, and bibliometrics. Students leave with a completed research design and, ideally, a healthy respect for the difficulty of measuring what actually matters.
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from students interested in doctoral research on innovation management, science policy, knowledge networks, or university–industry interaction. If you are considering a PhD in these areas, send me a short note explaining what you want to understand and why — that is usually enough to start a useful conversation.
Materials for enrolled students are on the University of Valencia’s Aula Virtual.