Stefano Magistretti

Core Faculty | Associate Professor

Short Profile outline

Stefano Magistretti is an Assistant Professor in Agile Innovation in the area of Innovation and Design Management at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano, and a senior researcher in the LEADIN’Lab, the Laboratory of LEAdership, Design,  and INnovation. Within the School of Management, he serves as Research Director for the Observatory Design Thinking for Business; previously, he was Research Platform Development since its foundation in 2017. He is also Co-Director of two joint masters with SKEMA business school. from 2022 on the PMUX Product Management and UX Design and from 2023 also on Entrepreneurship and Design for sustainability

Education

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Email: stefano.magistretti@polimi.it

webpage: www4.ceda.polimi.it

Stefano Magistretti

Stefano Magistretti

Academic courses held at SOM Research Relevant Publications Grants, Awards and Honours Service to the Community

Academic course held at SOM

Teaching Areas:

MBA

Research

Stefano researches Design Thinking and the link between this approach of innovation and digital technologies such as Artificial intelligence. Moreover, in the last years, he started to develop research on entrepreneurship as Design as well as future-making. He has published conference articles and a chapter in an edited book, as well as more than 20 articles in journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Long Range Planning, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, R&D Management, Industry & Innovation, Business  Horizons, Creativity and Innovation Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Management Decision, Research Technology Management, Innovation Organization & Management, and Technology Analysis and  Strategic Management Journal.

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • ADI Compasso D’Oro XXV Mention for the “The White Book” project
  • The article: Magistretti, S., Ardito, L., & Messeni Petruzzelli, A. (2021) Framing the Microfoundations of Design Thinking as a Dynamic Capability for Innovation: Reconciling Theory and Practice. Journal of Product Innovation Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12586 Has been nominated as the Top Cited and Top Downloaded Article in the journal Product Innovation Management for the year 2020-2021.
  • The grant “Misure di sostegno ai soci giovani AiIG Anno 2022” Francesco Galati was assigned to Stefano Magistretti, Nico Klenner and Silvia Sanasi for the project titled: “Framing entrepreneurship as design for future-making (FrED-FM)”, 20/10/2022 - 20/10/2024
  • The article: Pham, C. T. A., Magistretti, S., & Dell’Era, C. (2022) What makes you think differently? the role of stimuli in the interplay between creative logics and problem framing. Best Paper – runner up at the IPDM Conference in Hamburg 2022

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