Dolores is an internationally experienced scholar with a strong track record in innovation and technology transfer, intellectual property management, and circular economy innovations. She is an Associate Professor in Innovation and Management at Nord University Business School in Norway and also leads the Centre for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property at Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto in Slovenia. She has previously held prestigious research fellowships such as the JSPS Fellowship in Japan and a Fulbright at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (U.S).

Dolores has led or contributed to over 20 projects and helped to secure over €8 million in competitive funding across Europe, the US, and Asia. She also has 20 years of experience in teaching, across variety of subjects including IP and innovation management, and circular economy.

Dolores has published in top innovation and management journals, including Research policy. Her research is driven by a curiosity about the evolving role of intellectual property in enabling innovation systems to respond to grand societal challenges. She is inter alia particularly interested in how IP role and management can be reimagined to foster transitions to more sustainable and circular economies. Her work also explores the strategic and operational dimensions of technology transfer, the governance of innovation, emerging technologies uptake, and the ways in which IP data can be mobilized as both a resource and a constraint in shaping innovation trajectories. Central to her inquiry are questions such as: How can intellectual property be aligned with the principles of circular economy and inclusive innovation? In what ways might artificial intelligence disrupt or enhance the governance, valuation, and accessibility of IP? Etc. Subsequently, while at IIPM, she plans to particularly focus on the intersection of intellectual property and the circular economy, as well as the role and potential of AI in IPR; including the role and assessment of AI-supported IPR tools.