Pier A. Abetti

Professor of Practice

abettp@rpi.edu
518-276-6834

Dr. Abetti, listed in Who’s Who in America, builds upon a previous managerial career at General Electric across the globe. Professor Abetti is recipient of the Kaufmann Foundation Award for Entrepreneurship Professor of the Year and is an internationally recognized lecturer who has taught students in universities throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Latin America.

Areas

• Entrepreneurship
  
• Economic Development
  
• Technology and R&D Management
  

Areas of Instruction

• Entrepreneurship
• Global Business
• Technology Management

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Doctorate in Industrial and Electrical Engineering, University of Pisa (Italy)

Research and Publications

Dr. Abetti focuses his research efforts on planning and management of technology, technological entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and new business incubators. Dr. Abetti’s development of the electromagnetic model was awarded GE’s Coffin Award. He has published 150 papers in five languages and authored four books, including Linking Technology and Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Maghreb, published in English, French and Arabic. He is an Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

View selected abstracts of Prof. Abetti’s published papers:

• "One Hundred Years of Superconductivity: Science, Technology, Products, Profits and Industry Structure," 2009 
• "Dual Case Study: The Influence of Cultural Dimensions on the Evolution of Two Family Chemical Companies in Italy and Taiwan," 2010
• "The Globalization of an Italian Family Company: Zobele Chemical Industries (1919-2006)," 2007
• "University Incubators as Agents for Technology Transfer and Economic Growth: Case Studies in U.S.A., Ukraine and Finland," 2008
• “General Electric at the Crossroads: the End of the Last U.S. Conglomerate,” 2011

View Prof. Abetti’s CV