Francisco Veloso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Business School at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Francisco's scholarly work focuses on how firms and regions develop and leverage scientific and technical capabilities for economic growth. He has published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Operation Management, or Research Policy and worked with a variety of international firms and organizations such as Alcoa Inc., Accenture, McKinsey & Co., the Asian Development Bank, or The Mexican and Portuguese Science and Technology Foundations. Francisco has won several international awards, including the Stan Hardy award for the best paper published in the field of Operations Management in 2008 and the Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship for 2008-2010. Francisco has a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Technology Management from ISEG and a Diploma in Physics Engineering from IST, both part of the Technical University of Lisbon. For more information see www.veloso.net.
