Hèrica
Morais Righi

Hérica Morais Righi is an economist with a PhD in Innovation Management from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) and a Master in Science and Technology Policy from Unicamp (Brazil). She has 15 years of experience as a researcher on innovation and 5 years as an assistant professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fundaçao Dom Cabral (FDC – a Brazilian Business School). At FDC she developed and implemented innovation processes in several companies (small, medium and large), coordinated Minas Gerais’ Innovation Research Center (CRI-Minas) where she worked with about 10 companies per year developing case studies and promoting debates on their main innovation issues. She was also responsible for an international network of seven South American universities to improve the innovation process in this region, called Red Enlaces. Her main research interests are university-industry collaboration, innovation management, the innovation process, innovation policies, innovation in emerging countries and entrepreneurship. Her work experience has given her a better understanding of the tools and issues affecting the development and growth of companies and countries.