P.M.M. (Pedro) de Faria, Prof

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Department of Innovation Management and Strategy
Department Chair
since January 2021

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Department of Innovation Management and Strategy
Full Professor
since May 2020

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Department of Innovation Management and Strategy
Associate Professor (with promotion rights)
2018-2020

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Department of Innovation Management and Strategy
Associate Professor
2015-2018

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Department of Innovation Management and Strategy

Assistant Professor

2009-2015

2002 – 2009 Center for Innovation Technology and Policy Research, IN+ Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

PhD Research Fellow Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2002-2009

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Innovation Management

Cooperation for Innovation

Knowledge Protection Strategies

Innovation and Internationalization

Strategic Human Capital

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Nijstad, B., Calic, G., de Faria, P., Grimpe, C., & Kauppila, O. P. (2026). “Connecting Creativity and Innovation Research: Building Bridges to Cross Divides”, Research Policy, 55(2), 105391.

Broekhuizen, T., Dekker, H., de Faria, P., Firk, S., Nguyen, D.K., and Sofka, W. (2023) “AI for Managing Open Innovation: Opportunities, Challenges, and a Research Agenda”, Journal of Business Research, 167, 114196. [ABS3]

Kok, H., Faems, D. and de Faria, P. (2022) “Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the Performance Implications of Earmarking in Public R&D Grants”, Research Policy, 51(7), 104514. [ABS4*; FT List]

Wyrwich, M., Steinberg, P., Noseleit, F. and de Faria, P. (2022) “Is Open Innovation Imprinted on New Ventures? The Cooperating-Inhibiting Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes”, Research Policy, 51(1), 104409. [ABS4*; FT List]

n Distel, A., Sofka, W., de Faria, P., Ribeiro, A. and Preto, M. (2022) “Dynamic Capabilities for Hire: How Prior Entrepreneurial Experience of MNC Subsidiary Management Affects Performance”, Journal of International Business Studies, 53(4), 657-688. [ABS4*; FT List]

de Faria P., Schubert T., and Sofka, W. (2021) “Recruiting Strategic Human Capital from MNCs - Does Hiring MNC Managers Enable Exporting in Domestic Firms?” PLoS ONE 16(10), e0257922.

Kok, H., Faems, D. and de Faria, P. (2020) “Ties that Matter: The Impact of Alliance Partner Knowledge Recombination Novelty on Knowledge Utilization in R&D Alliances”, Research Policy, 49(7), 104011. [ABS4*; FT List]

de Faria, P., Noseleit, F. and Los (2020). “The influence of internal barriers on open innovation”, Industry and Innovation, 27(3), pp. 205-209. [ABS2]

Kok, H., Faems, D. and de Faria, P. (2019) “Dusting the Knowledge Shelves: The Impact of Recombinant Lag on the Technological Value of Inventions", Journal of Management, 45(7), pp. 2807-2836. [ABS4*; FT List]

Fonseca, T., de Faria, P. and Lima, F. (2019) “Human Capital and Innovation: The Importance of the Optimal Organizational Task Structure”, Research Policy, 48(3), pp. 616-627. [ABS4*; FT List]

Sofka, W., de Faria, P. and Shehu, E. (2018) “Protecting Knowledge: How Legal Requirements to Reveal Information Affect the Importance of Secrecy”, Research Policy, 47(3), pp. 558-572. [ABS4*; FT List]

Estrada, I., Faems, D. and de Faria, P. (2016) “Coopetition and Product Innovation Performance: The Moderating Impact of Internal Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Protection Mechanisms”, Industrial Marketing Management, 53, pp. 56-65. [ABS3]

Bos, B., Broekhuizen, T. and de Faria, P. (2015) “A Dynamic View on Secrecy Management”, Journal of Business Research, 68(12), pp. 2619-2627. [ABS3]

Sofka, W., Shehu, E. and de Faria, P. (2014) “Multinational Subsidiary Knowledge Protection – Do Mandates and Clusters Matter?”, Research Policy, 43(8), pp. 1320-1333. [ABS4*; FT List]

Sofka, W., Preto, M. and de Faria, P. (2014) “MNC Subsidiary Closures: What is the Value of Employees’ Human Capital in New Jobs?”, Journal of International Business Studies, 45(6), pp. 723-750. [ABS4*; FT List]

Noseleit, F. and de Faria, P. (2013) “Complementarities of Internal R&D and Alliances with Different Partner Types”, Journal of Business Research, 66(10), pp. 2000-2006. [ABS3]

de Faria, P. and Schmidt, T. (2012) “International Cooperation on Innovation: Firm-level Evidence from Two European Countries”, Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice, 14(3), pp. 304-324.

de Faria, P. and Lima, F. (2012) “Interdependence and Spillovers: Is Firm Performance Affected by Others’ Innovation Activities?”, Applied Economics, 44(36), pp. 4765-4775. [ABS2]

de Faria, P. and Mendonça, J. (2011) “Innovation Strategy by Firms: Do innovative firms grow more?”, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 12(2), pp. 173-184. [ABS2]

de Faria, P. and Sofka, W. (2010) “Formal and Strategic Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms – A Cross Country Comparison”, Research Policy, 39(7), pp. 956–968. [ABS4*; FT List]

Best Paper Conference Proceedings

Doucet, Pablo, Pedro de Faria, Ignacio Requejo, Isabel Suarez-Gonzalez, The Impact of Asset Partitioning on the Use of Downsizing as a Reactive Strategy, Best Paper Proceedings of the 2023 Academy of Management Meeting.

de Faria, Pedro, Wolfgang Sofka and Edlira Shehu, Stop the Knowledge Flow: Knowledge Protection Intensity of MNC Subsidiaries, Best Paper Proceedings of the 2014 Academy of Management Meeting.

Sofka, Wolfgang, Edlira Shehu and Pedro de Faria, Appropriation in Times of Open Innovation: Does Secrecy Still Work?, Best Paper Proceedings of the 2012 Academy of Management Meeting.

BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK REVIEWS, EXPERT REPORTS AND TEACHING CASES

Catão, L., de Faria, P., Martins, A. and Portela, M. (2021) “Investimento Direto Estrangeiro, Cadeias Globais de Valor e um Novo Paradigma”; in de Alexandre, F. (coordinator): “Innovation for Development”, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisbon - https://www.ffms.pt/FileDownload/7d6c465b-0c0f-4fea-92bb-62af3a85f222/do-made-in-ao-created-in-um-novo-paradigma-para-a-economia-portuguesa.

de Faria, P. (coordinator), Torres Preto, M., Ribeiro, A., Sofka, W. and Distel, A. (2018) “Encerramento de multinacionais”, Project report for the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos” (in Portuguese) - https://www.ffms.pt/FileDownload/3bbc3804-4cf5-4fc2-8f06-f9b2a2340426/resumo-do-estudo-encerramento-de-multinacionais

Sofka, W., Preto, M. and de Faria, P. (2015) “Foreign divestment: What stays when multinationals leave?”, Columbia FDI Perspectives nº 155.

de Faria, P. (2010)  “Innovation at Large: Managing Multi-Organization, Multi-Team Projects, Johanna E.M. Schönrok. Structural Change and Structural Policies, Vol. 20. Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main (2010). 169 pp., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-631-60217-1”, European Journal of Operational Research, 211 (1) pp. 218-219.

Baptista, R., and de Faria, P. (2010) “ICT Diffusion, Inward Foreign Direct Investment, and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: A Research Note”; in de Noronha Vaz, T. (editor): “Innovation for Development”, Universidade do Algarve, Faro.

Amaral, A.M., de Faria, P., Mendonça, J. and Preto, M.T., (2009) “Technology Commercialization in Portugal: An Outlook of Success Cases”, report delivered to the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education

de Faria, P. (2006) “Santarelli, E. (editor): Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms and Industries. International Studies in Entrepreneurship. XIII, 285 pp. Springer, Berlin 2006. Hardcover”, Journal of Economics, 91(3), pp. 304-309.

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

2023-2025 “Developing Theoretical Contributions in Strategy, International Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research: A Design Thinking Workshop” together with Samuel Horner, Joep Cornelissen, Julia Brennecke, Jordi Surroca, Wolfgang Sofka, and Cleo Silvestri.

AoM 2023 Symposium (panel) “Connecting Creativity and Innovation” together with Goran Calic, Christoph Grimpe, Olli-Pekka Kauppila and Bernard Nijstad.

SMS 2020 Conference Extension “Innovation Ecosystems” with Dries Faems and Anna Brattström (cancelled due to Covid19 travel restrictions)

 https://www.strategicmanagement.net/virtual/extensions/groningen

Groningen Cooperation for Innovation Conference 2016 - http://www.rug.nl/research/io/research/gcic2016/.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Panelist in the International Management Division Doctoral Student Consortium + Junior Faculty Consortium of the 2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Contributor to the European Humanities R&D Exhibition, European Humanities Conference, Lisbon, 2021.

Academy of Management, Annual Meetings, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012-2025.

Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, 2015, 2017-2020, 2022-2024.

Strategic Management Society Special Conferences, 2014, 2017 (2), 2018, 2019.

Academy of International Business, Annual Meetings, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2018, 2019.

DRUID Summer Conference, 2009-2016, 2018, 2019, 2021-2023.

AWARDS

Best-Paper-Award (1st prize) “Innovation Management” 2019: Attributed by EBS Business School

Corporate Strategy Interest Group best paper award (finalist): Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting 2019

Strategic Human Capital Interest Group best paper award (finalist): Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting 2017

International Management Division Best Paper in OM/HRM/OT (finalist): Academy of Management 2014

Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar (finalist): Academy of International Business 2013

Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award (finalist): International Product Development Management Conference 2013

Best Student Paper (winner): IEEE International Engineering Management Conference – Europe 2008

Best PhD Paper Award (second prize): 9th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation - 2006

PHD SUPERVISION

Joy Turion: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Cleo Silvestri and Jitse Duijsters) (since September 2026)

Jildou Bouma: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Marvin Hanisch and Cleo Silvestri) (since September 2024)

Mirjam Brandl: University of Groningen / Johannes Gutenbert-Universität Mainz (co-supervision with Jana Oehmichen and Björn Mitzinneck) (2021-2026)

Tristan Thomé: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Jana Oehmichen and Marvin Hanisch) (2020-2026) - currently Treasury Manager at Deutsche Telekom.

Ina Karn: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Jana Oehmichen and Esha Mendiratta) (2021-2025) – currently Supervision Officer at Autoriteit Financiële Markten, The Netherlands.

Karen Tu: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Jordi Surroca and Pasi Kuusela) (2020-2024) - currently Assistant Professor at the Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Romina Guri: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Bart Los and Florian Noseleit) (2017-2023) – currently working at the European Central Bank.

Aneta Oleksiak-den Uijl: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Dries Faems) (2015-2019) – currently Business Controller and Analyst at Gasunie, The Netherlands.

Holmer Kok: University of Groningen (co-supervision with Dries Faems) (2014-2018) – currently Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; winner of the SOM Award for the best PhD research and finalist of the 2019 AoM TIM Dissertation Award.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Coordination activities

Coordinator: MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management (until 01/2020).

Master Thesis Coordinator: MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management (until 09/2019).

Master Internship Coordinator: MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management (until 09/2019).

Development of Master Level courses

“Strategy and Innovation Management” of the MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management.

“Managing Innovation” of the Research Master in Economics and Business.

“Strategic Management” of the Research Master in Economics and Business.

“Cooperating for Innovation” of the MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management.

Development of Bachelor Level courses

"Outlining and Implementing Innovation Strategy” of the BSc Industrial Engineering and Management.

Lecturer of Master Level courses

“Capturing Value from Innovation” of the MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management.

“Foreign Market Entry Strategies” of the MSc International Business & Management

“Master Class Innovation” of the Honours Master

“Sustainability in Business and Economics” of the MSc International Business & Management

Lecturer of Bachelor Level courses

“Contemporary Theories on B&M” of the BSc Business Administration”

Supervision activities

Research Master thesis: co-supervision of Aneta Oleksiak, Holmer Kok, Deidre Coveney and Karen Tu.

Master theses: MSc BA Strategic Innovation Management - student evaluations: A+.

EDUCATION

2005-2008          Ph.D in Engineering and Industrial Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.

2002-2004          M.Sc in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.

1996-2001          BS (Licenciatura) in Environmental Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 2020         Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), Portugal.

Member of the scientific research and technological development (SR&TD) project grants in all scientific domains evaluation panel (Economics and Business)

Since 2020         Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Higher Education, Cyprus.

External Evaluation Committee Member for the evaluation accreditation process of Academic Departments and their teaching programs

2015                 Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) from the European Commission

Project Evaluator for the COSME Cluster Excellence and Cluster Go International Programs

2007 and 2008   Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Germany.

Visiting Scholar

2001-2002          Observatório para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (National Statistical Office for Science and Technology), Ministry for Science and Technology.

Worked in the Third Community Innovation Survey, Eurostat, and in the National Survey on Research & Development

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Chair of the Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (since January 2021)

Coordinator of the Strategy and Innovation Management sub-group of the Department of Innovation and Strategy of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen.

Member of hiring committees for the selection of new Tenure Track Assistant Professors for the Department of Innovation and Strategy of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen.

Discussant at PhD Conferences organized by the Research School of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen since 2017.

Assistant to the Chair of the Department of Innovation and Strategy of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen: Planning of the teaching activities of the department (Teaching Matrix).

REVIEWER AND EDITOR ACTIVITIES

Special Issue Editor: “Connecting Creativity and Innovation Research” in Research Policy (Bernard Nijstad, Goran Calic, Christoph Grimpe and Olli-Pekka Kauppila).

Associate Editor of the journal Industry and Innovation (since August 2018).

Special Issue Editor: “The Influence of Internal Barriers on Open Innovation” in the Journal Industry and Innovation (with Florian Noseleit and Bart Los).

EXTERNAL FUNDING

2024-2026         TWIN4ECO project financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Facility, procedure for building connections (Twinning) from the Government of Bulgaria (100.000 Euro for RUG)

RUG Coordinator

2021                 Project “Evaluation of Innovation Projects” funded by the Portuguese Innovation Agency (6.500 Euro for RUG).

RUG Team Member

2021                 Project “From 'made in' to 'created in': a New Paradigm for the Portuguese Economy” funded by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (5.000 Euro for RUG).

RUG Team Member

2019                 Trans-Atlantic Platform – “Social Innovation” under NWO (250.000 Euro for RUG) – in collaboration with Queen’s University, Canada and University of Wuppertal, Germany.

Team Member and co-writer of the proposal (team leader: Florian Noseleit)

2018-2019         Project “Evaluation EFRO Program”, funded by the Province of Gelderland (140.000 Euro).

Team Member (team leader: Dries Faems)

2018                 Project “Citation Analysis of the Journal of Management Studies”, funded by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (2.000 Euro).

Co-coordinator and Team Member (other co-coordinator: Dries Faems)

2017                 H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN), European Commission (scored above the threshold, not funded); total €3.1m

Coordinator of the submission (partners involved: University of Groningen, Copenhagen Business School, Cass Business School London, University of Leuven, LUISS Business School Rome, Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon

2017                 H2020 Open Science Application as a partner (scored above the threshold, not funded)

2016                 Grant from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies to organize the Groningen Collaboration for Innovation Conference (8.000 €).

2016-2018         Project “Closure of foreign MNC subsidiaries: What stays when the MNC leaves?”, funded by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (100.000 Euro).

Coordinator and writer of the proposal

2015-2018         Project “Employment, Skills and Technology Intensity” (PTDC/IIM-ECO/4929/2014), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

Team Member

2013-2015         Project “Job Polarization within and across Firms: Skills, Organizational Change and Innovation” (PTDC/IIM-ECO/5123/2012), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

Team Member

2010-2013         Project “Innovation and the Global Economy: An investigation of critical challenges for Intellectual Property, Strategy and Policy in IT and beyond” (CMU-PT/OUT/0042/2009), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

Team Member

2008-2010         Collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (Theme 9: Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities): “CoInvest - Competitiveness, Innovation and Intangible Investment in Europe”.

GRANTS

2008 - Pos-Doctoral fellowship under the project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology): “Innovation and Productivity in Portuguese firms: modelling, applied evidence, and policy design” (PTDC/ESC/67665/2006).

2005-2008 - Doctoral fellowship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

2001-2003 - Management of Science and Technology fellowship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Academy of Management

Strategic Management Society