Research Areas of Interest

• Firm Strategy and Innovation
• Open Innovation
• Innovative Mindsets
• Technology Markets
• Entrepreneurial career transition

Ana's research interests lie primarily in the intersection between innovation management, strategy and organizational behavior. Ana's research agenda encompasses three lines of inquiry. The first one concerns how firms organize and define their internal processes and systems, capabilities and attitudes to support external knowledge sourcing. The second one emphasizes the transition to entrepreneurship from an identity perspective. The third one concentrates on the link between cognition and creativity at the individual level. In terms of methods, she applies both qualitative and quantitative methods with focus on the latter.

Education 

• 2011: PhD in Business Administration, School of Business and Social Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark

• 2007: MSc. Innovation, Knowledge and Economic Dynamics, Aalborg University, Denmark

• 2005: B.A. Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• 2003 fall: Exchange student at University of Nottingham, UK