Frattini Federico
Full Professor
Frattini Federico
Full Professor
Federico Frattini is Full Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at Politecnico di Milano and Dean of POLIMI Graduate School of Management, the Business School of Politecnico di Milano. He is Co-founder and Deputy Director of Energy & Strategy, a research and advisory group of Politecnico di Milano specialized in strategy and innovation across the energy, energy efficiency, smart mobility, and circular economy sectors. He is also Co-founder and Co-Director of Innovation, Strategy & Family Business, a knowledge center of Politecnico di Milano focused on strategy, family business management, and open innovation. Professor Frattini serves on the International Advisory Board of TUM School of Management (Germany), EADA Business School (Spain), and MIB Trieste School of Management (Italy). He is also a member of several boards and scientific committees, including the Scientific Committee of MIT Technology Review Italia, the Board of Directors of AiIG (the Italian Association of Management Engineering), and the Scientific Committee of the Philosophy & Business Unit at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. Author of books published by EGEA and Bocconi University Press and of more than 200 scientific publications, he is also Ambassador of the Innovation Alliance – The City of the Future within Federated Innovation @MIND, an ecosystem dedicated to urban innovation.
Career
PHD: Management Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Master of Science: Management Economics and Industrial Engineering, Unversità Carlo Cattaneo LIUC
Research
Federico Frattini's research activity focuses on innovation and strategy, with a particular emphasis on family businesses and innovation in the energy sector. On these topics, he has published over 200 contributions, including articles, books, and conference proceedings, which have appeared in leading international journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Academy of Management Perspectives, California Management Review, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and many others. He is an Associate Editor for the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation and a member of the Editorial Board for the European Journal of Innovation Management. He also collaborates as a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals. His studies have also been widely featured in publications for managers and practitioners, such as Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, Harvard Business Manager, and Il Sole 24 Ore. He was an Honorary Researcher at Lancaster University Management School, and in 2013, he was named among the Top 50 researchers globally in Technology and Innovation Management by IAMOT (International Association for Management of Technology).
Selected Publications
Manelli, L., Benedetti, C., Kotlar, J, Frattini, F. (2025) Bridging Moral Aspirations and the Mundane Reality: A Grounded Study of the Process of Radical Purpose Adaptation in a Business School, Journal of Management Studies
Mancuso, I., Messeni Petruzzelli, A., Panniello, U., Frattini, F. (2025) The role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in innovation processes: a knowledge management perspective, Technology in Society
Magrelli, V., Kotlar, J., Frattini, F., Messeni Petruzzelli, A. (2025) Making the Old New Again Through the Process of Recombinant Innovation, Journal of Product Innovation Management
Sgambaro, L., Chiaroni, D., Frattini, F. (2025). Digital technologies as enablers of Circular Economy: an exploratory analysis of functions and product lifecycle, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Capella, F., Tolin, G., Frattini, F., Kotlar, J., Di Minin, A. (2025). Corporate Venture Clienting: A Governance Perspective Through the Lens of Stewardship Theory, Creativity and Innovation Management.
Grants, awards and Honours
In March 2018 the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), in a review of “Rising Stars in Family Business Research”, included four of his articles among the most influential recent ones on family firms worldwide.
One of his papers was awarded as the Best Practitioner Focused Paper Award at the Family Enterprise Research Conference (Portland, Oregon, USA, 21-23 Giugno 2014).
In 2013 Federico was nominated among the top 50 authors in the field of innovation and technology management worldwide by IAMOT, the International Association for Management of Technology.
In 2021 he was nominated as Ambassador of the Innovation Alliance - The City of the Future of Federated Innovation @ MIND.
Community service
Director - Evening Executive MBA
Director - Part Time Executive MBA
Federico has been member of the Executive Board of POLIMI Graduate School of Management since 2014 with the following responsibilities: Director of the MBA & Executive MBA programs, Director of the ICT & Digital Learning Division, Associate Dean for Digital Transformation and Dean.
Federico is Associate Editor of the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Product Innovation Management and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Innovation Management, and Consulting Editor of the International Journal of Management Reviews
Federico has been Guest Editor of many special issues on innovation and strategic management published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, California Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews and others. Frattini is acknowledged as an international expert in the field of digital learning, and his thoughts and projects are regularly featured on national and international outlets.