Dr Letizia Mortara
Associate Professor
Letizia Mortara is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, where she convenes the Decision-Making for Emerging Technology group. Letizia’s research focuses on Technological Decision Making with the aim to improve organisational response to fast-changing technological and innovation contexts. Her work aims to propose management tools and approaches that can support the taking of such decisions.
Her research covers Technology intelligence (i.e. the company activity set-up in order to keep abreast with the latest developments in technology), and the adoption of Open Innovation practices in industry. She is interested in digitalisation phenomena linked to the advent of Digital Fabrication technologies in manufacturing (e.g. 3D Printing) and their implications for business.
Letizia is also an Associate Editor for the R&D Management journal and a Senior Fellow at Newnham College.
Letizia has worked within the Centre for Technology Management at the Institute for Manufacturing since 2005. Prior to this, she gained her first degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna in Italy. After spending three years working as a process/product manager in the chemical industry, she moved to the UK where she gained her PhD in processing and process scale-up of advanced ceramic materials at Cranfield University.
Publications
Books, Reports and Guides
Communicating Technology Intelligence
This Practice Guide examines some of the barriers to effective Technology Intelligence communication and explores the ways in which intelligence can be better communicated and hence transferred to decision-makers.
Papers
For a full list of Letizia's publications see Google Scholar
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Research
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asset Management
- Business Model Innovation
- Computer Aided Manufacturing
- Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies
- Design Management
- Digital Manufacturing
- Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory
- Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Industrial Photonics
- Industrial Resilience
- Industrial Sustainability
- Inkjet Research
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- International Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Industry Education Research
- NanoManufacturing
- Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
- Strategy and Performance
- Technology Enterprise
- Technology Management
- Service Alliance
- University Commercialisation and Innovation Policy Evidence Unit