Valentina Tartari

Valentina Tartari is the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (DEIT), where she is the director of the JMW Center. She is also affiliated with the department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School.

Her research focuses on the determinants of knowledge production and transfer, inside and outside academia. Specifically, she studies how academic researchers produce scientific knowledge and how this knowledge is transferred to industry and society. Valentina is also interested in the role universities have in stimulating local entrepreneurship.  

Valentina is currently the Program chair for the TIM division of the Academy of Management. She is also a member of the executive committee of the SEI Consortium (https://www.seiconsortium.com/).

Valentina referees for all the most prominent management and innovation journals (Research Policy, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science), and she is part the Editorial Board of Research Policy and of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.