Prof. Anne-Laure Mention is the Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform, Research & Innovation, and Professor of Management, School of Management, College of Business and Law, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia; a Visiting Professor at Université de Liège, Belgium; Deputy Head of the Centre d’Evaluation de la Performance des Entreprises; and Visiting Professor at Tampere University, Finland. She holds several other visiting positions in Europe and Asia.
Anne-Laure is also one of the Founding Editors of the Journal of Innovation Management, and currently holds the position of Director, Community Engagement & Impact to the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Board, (previously, from 2012-2018, was the Deputy Head of the Advisory Board, until its discontinuation). She is the Co-Editor of a book series on Open Innovation, published by World Scientific/Imperial College Press. Her research interests revolve around open and collaborative innovation, innovation in business-to-business services, with a particular focus on the financial industry and FinTech, technology management, and business venturing. She has also been awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award twice for her research on innovation.
Anne-Laure has been the Chief Investigator and Academic Lead of several European Union Funded Projects, including: The European Training Network for InduStry Digital Transformation across Innovation Ecosystems, also known as EINST4INE, a consortium of universities, research organisations and industry partners working in the domain of industrial digital transformation, having received funding from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) scheme; and the award-winning Horizon2020 OpenInnoTrain Project, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (MSCA-RISE) Scheme, recipient of the 2023 ABDC Network Award for Innovation & Excellence in International Engagement & Education as well as having been featured as 1 of the 130 projects that contributed to the European Year of Skills (2024). Most recently, Anne-Laure was successful in securing 7.5M€ in funding for the EU-cofunded, (from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Scheme), Doctoral Program, Driving Climate Positive Futures, also known as DREAM+PLAN, for which she is also the Chief Investigator and Academic Lead.