Claudio Dell’Era

4.1k total citations
80 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Claudio Dell’Era is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Mechanical Engineering and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudio Dell’Era has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Strategy and Management, 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 20 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Claudio Dell’Era's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (39 papers), Design Education and Practice (23 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (12 papers). Claudio Dell’Era is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (39 papers), Design Education and Practice (23 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (12 papers). Claudio Dell’Era collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Sweden and United Kingdom. Claudio Dell’Era's co-authors include Roberto Verganti, Stefano Magistretti, Paolo Landoni, Federico Frattini, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Tommaso Buganza, Elena Pellizzoni, Cabirio Cautela, Antonio Ghezzi and Mattia Bianchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

In The Last Decade

Claudio Dell’Era

76 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Claudio Dell’Era Italy 29 1.1k 883 564 500 335 80 2.7k
Robert W. Veryzer United States 16 1.1k 1.0× 552 0.6× 1.2k 2.2× 392 0.8× 402 1.2× 27 2.9k
Gerda Gemser Netherlands 22 738 0.6× 370 0.4× 605 1.1× 277 0.6× 400 1.2× 57 2.0k
Stefan Thomke United States 21 1.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.5× 595 1.1× 539 1.1× 374 1.1× 49 3.9k
Sara Beckman United States 18 1.1k 0.9× 423 0.5× 234 0.4× 398 0.8× 138 0.4× 59 2.2k
Gloria Barczak United States 32 1.6k 1.4× 718 0.8× 449 0.8× 177 0.4× 447 1.3× 68 3.1k
Pietro Micheli United Kingdom 25 895 0.8× 256 0.3× 399 0.7× 367 0.7× 231 0.7× 48 2.4k
Margaret Bruce United Kingdom 23 1.0k 0.9× 429 0.5× 507 0.9× 295 0.6× 250 0.7× 70 2.2k
Maria Elmquist Sweden 17 842 0.7× 416 0.5× 176 0.3× 420 0.8× 136 0.4× 34 1.6k
Sabeen Hussain Bhatti Pakistan 20 783 0.7× 247 0.3× 364 0.6× 189 0.4× 195 0.6× 36 1.8k
Keith Goffin United Kingdom 27 1.2k 1.0× 461 0.5× 581 1.0× 150 0.3× 193 0.6× 65 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claudio Dell’Era

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claudio Dell’Era

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Claudio Dell’Era. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Claudio Dell’Era based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Claudio Dell’Era. Claudio Dell’Era is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Magistretti, Stefano, Claudio Dell’Era, Marina Candi, et al.. (2025). Unpacking experimentation in design thinking: Contributions to innovation performance and the moderating role of digital technologies. Technovation. 141. 103187–103187. 3 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, Stefano Magistretti, Marina Candi, et al.. (2025). Design thinking in action: a quantitative study of design thinking practices in innovation projects. Journal of Knowledge Management. 29(11). 32–58. 2 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, et al.. (2025). The creative process of problem framing for innovation: An integrative review and research agenda. Journal of Product Innovation Management. 42(6). 987–1018. 1 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, et al.. (2024). Predictive or imaginative futures? Experimenting with alternative future‐making approaches. Creativity and Innovation Management. 33(3). 496–517. 6 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, et al.. (2024). The 4S Model for AI Adoption. Research-Technology Management. 67(3). 54–63. 2 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Technology‐Aided Customer Experience Innovation: Implementation Modes in Retail. Creativity and Innovation Management. 34(2). 414–426. 1 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Data in design: How big data and thick data inform design thinking projects. Technovation. 122. 102688–102688. 34 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, et al.. (2023). How do you frame ill‐defined problems? A study on creative logics in action. Creativity and Innovation Management. 32(3). 493–516. 9 indexed citations
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Magistretti, Stefano, Silvia Sanasi, Claudio Dell’Era, & Antonio Ghezzi. (2022). Entrepreneurship as design: A design process for the emergence and development of entrepreneurial opportunities. Creativity and Innovation Management. 32(1). 5–21. 18 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, Daniel Trabucchi, & Stefano Magistretti. (2020). Exploiting incumbents' potentialities: From linear value chains to multisided platforms. Creativity and Innovation Management. 30(1). 31–46. 18 indexed citations
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Sassanelli, Claudio, et al.. (2018). Leveraging European SMEs and Start-Ups competitiveness through design. 243–249. 1 indexed citations
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Trabucchi, Daniel, Tommaso Buganza, Claudio Dell’Era, & Elena Pellizzoni. (2017). Exploring the inbound and outbound strategies enabled by user generated big data: Evidence from leading smartphone applications. Creativity and Innovation Management. 27(1). 42–55. 51 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, et al.. (2016). Discovering quiescent meanings in technologies: exploring the design management practices that support the development of Technology Epiphanies. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 29(2). 149–166. 36 indexed citations
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Landoni, Paolo, et al.. (2016). Design Contribution to the Competitive Performance of SMEs: The Role of Design Innovation Capabilities. Creativity and Innovation Management. 25(4). 484–499. 29 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, Tommaso Buganza, & Roberto Verganti. (2011). Figures of speech as semantic operators in the innovation process. European Journal of Innovation Management. 14(2). 155–171. 3 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, et al.. (2010). Mastering Technologies in Design-Driven Innovation: How Two Italian Companies Made Design a Central Part of Their Innovation Process. Research-Technology Management. 53(2). 12–23. 6 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, et al.. (2010). Mastering Technologies in Design-Driven Innovation. Research-Technology Management. 53(2). 12–23. 70 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio & Roberto Verganti. (2009). Collaborative Strategies in Design-intensive Industries: Knowledge Diversity and Innovation. Long Range Planning. 43(1). 123–141. 135 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio, et al.. (2008). LINGUISTIC NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS: MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION IN DESIGN-INTENSIVE FIRMS. International Journal of Innovation Management. 12(1). 1–19. 25 indexed citations
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Dell’Era, Claudio & Roberto Verganti. (2007). Strategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages*. Journal of Product Innovation Management. 24(6). 580–599. 111 indexed citations

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