Maria Isabella Leone is an Associate Professor of Management of Innovation. She teaches Innovation Management, Open Innovation & IP Management, Economics of Strategy. She is the Head of the MBA Programmes. She also acts as the Director of the Flex course in Venture Capital Dynamics and Startup Engagement in collaboration with LVenture Group and as the Director of the Executive Master in Open Innovation and Intellectual Property, in cooperation with the University of Turin and sponsored by MISE-UIBM.

She got the Certification of Innovation Manager by MISE (Italian Ministry of Economic Development) in November 2019, and she acts as Senior Advisor for Startups-Corporate co-creation projects within the Open Italy programme launched by the ELIS Consortium.

Currently, she is a senior member of several research projects, both nationally and internationally (such as ENGAGE.EU, EINST4INE-European Training Network within the Erasmus Plus and Horizon 2020 programmes), also in collaboration with various corporates (i.e., LEONARDO, ENEL) and national bodies (i.e. UIBM, Italian Patent and Trademark Office). Her research focuses on the strategic management and policy of/for Intellectual Property rights, on patent and trademark licensing and, in general, on Open Innovation practices. She published on these topics in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, R&D Management Journal and Industrial and Corporate Change. She has received awards/honours for her research in the field of innovation management.