dr. S.J.S. (Said) Matr

EDUCATION___________________________________________________________________________

2016-2020                  Ph.D. in Business and Finance.

                                   Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

                                   Advisors: Prof. Neus Palomeras & Prof. Eduardo Melero

                                   Research interests: Innovation Management, Open Innovation, Labor Mobility, Markets for Technology, and Decision Making Process

2014-2016                  Master in Business and Quantitative Methods (Specialization in Management)

                                   Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

                                   Master Thesis: Open Innovation and Labor Mobility

2011 – 2014               Master of Science in Economy and Management Science (MEMS)

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Master Thesis: Dynamic Advertising and Pricing in Non-uniform Influence Diffusion Model and Estimation of Parameters

2004 – 2009               Bachelor in Industrial Engineering

Islamic University, Gaza, Palestine

WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS___________________________________

“Outbound Opening Up the Innovation Process: Implications for Outbound Labor Mobility”, 2018.

“What’s there to Gain? Outbound Openness and Markets for Technology”, (with Ayvazyan, A.), 2019. In progress.

“Sharing is Caring: Outbound Open Innovation and the Subsequent Innovation Process” (with Ayvazyan, A.), 2019. In progress.

PUBLICATIONS________________________________________________________________________

Matr, S. & Ayvazyan, A., “Sharing is Caring: Outbound Open Innovation and the Subsequent Innovation Process”, Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, forthcoming.

Matr, S., “Outbound Opening up the Innovation Process: Implications for Outbound Labor Mobility”, In DRUID 2019 annual Conference. DRUID society.

Matr, S. & Ayvazyan, A., “What's There to Gain? Outbound Openness and Markets for Technology”, In DRUID 2019 annual Conference. DRUID society.

Agha, S., Jarbo, M., Matr, S., “A Multi-criteria Multi-Stakeholder Industrial Projects Prioritization in Gaza Strip”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2013) 38: 1217-1227.

AWARDS, HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS _________________________________________     

2019                           Nomination for Best Paper Award in the 79^th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management for “Sharing is Caring: Outbound Open Innovation and the Subsequent Innovation Process”

2019                           Nomination for DRUID19 Steve Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper for “What's There to Gain? Outbound Openness and Markets for Technology”

2016–Present              Scholarship for Pre-doctoral studies. Department of Business Administration. Carlos III University of Madrid

2016-2017                  Teaching Award for being in the top five teaching assistants with highest student evaluations in the Department of Business Administration. Carlos III University of Madrid

2014–2016                 Scholarship for Master Studies in the Department of Business Administration. Carlos III University of Madrid

2011-2013                  Scholarship for Master Studies by DAAD in Humboldt University-Berlin