Pedro Oliveira is Professor and Senior Associate Dean at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He is the founder and co-Project Leader of Patient Innovation: an open, global and non-profit online platform and community dedicated to the sharing of solutions developed by individuals afflicted with a health disorder, as well as by their caregivers (over 700 innovations were submitted and “medically screened” from a community of over 50.000 patients/caregivers from the 5 continents). His research focus on open and user innovation and more specifically on the role of patients and caregivers in the development of solutions to help them cope with their diseases.
Previously he was Academic Director of the LisbonMBA; director of the doctoral program in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship offered in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University; International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan; advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education and Project Leader for Creative Commons PT.
Pedro received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and both his M.Sc. and “licenciatura from IST (Lisbon). He also studied innovation at the Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.