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Comai, Alessandro

    Graduate School of International Management Associate Professor
Last Updated :2026/08/07

Researcher Information

Affiliation

    Graduate School of International Management Associate Professor

J-Global ID

Research Interests

  • social media   Digital Marketing   Market Orientation   Text data Visualization   Patent analytics   Open Innovation   Marketing Innovation   Marketing Intelligence   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Business administration / Market Orientation
  • Humanities & social sciences / Business administration / Social media analysis and visualisation
  • Informatics / Computational science / Text data Visualization
  • Humanities & social sciences / Commerce / Open Innovation

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2018/01 - Today  International University of JapanMarketing DepartmentAssociate Professor
  • 2011/10 - 2012/03  University of Pompeu FabraPart time Associate Professor (Type 2)
  • 2004/09 - 2011/09  University of Pompeu FabraPart time Associate Professor (Type 1)
  • 2005/01 - 2005/06  TUT Tampere University of TechnologyVisiting Professor

Education

  • 2001/10 - 2016/01  ESADE Business school  Marketing  PhD
  • 2001/10 - 2006/06  ESADE Business school  DEA
  • 1998/09 - 2000/06  Universidad Pompeu Fabra  MBA
  • 1996/09 - 1997/05  University of Coventry  Engineering School  B.Sc in Engineering

Association Memberships

  • EURAM   Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)   

Published Papers

Books etc

  • Establishing a World-Class Competitive Intelligence Function
    Alessandro Comai; John E. Prescott (Joint work)Barcelona, Emecom Ediciones ISBN 13: 978-84-935178-2-3 2007/03 9788493517823
  • Mapping and Anticipating the Competitive Landscape
    Alessandro Comai with Joaquín; Tena Millán (Joint work)Barcelona: Emecom Ediciones ISBN 13: 978-84-935178-1-6 2006/12 9788493517816
  • Software for Technological Patent Intelligence
    Alessandro Comai with Juan; Carlos Vergara; Joaquín Tena Millán (Joint translation)Emecom Ediciones, Barcelona ISBN-10 84-935178-0-1. 2006/09
  • Inteligencia Competitiva y Vigilancia Tecnológica: Experiencias e implantación en España y Latinoamérica
    Alessandro Comai with Joaquín; Tena Millán (Joint editor)Barcelona: Emecom Ediciones ISBN-10: 84-611-0314-9. 2006/05
  • Software para la Inteligencia Tecnológica de Patentes: Evaluación de aplicativos informáticos y necesidades de inteligencia tecnológica
    Alessandro Comai with Juan; Carlos Vergara; Joaquín Tena Millán (Joint work)Emecom Ediciones, Barcelona - ISBN-10 84-609-9829-0. 2006/03
  • The development of the Business Intelligence function in 4 Finnish case Companies
    Alessandro Comai (Single work)2005/06
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva y el Contexto Estratégico de una Organización
    Alessandro Comai (Contributor)Inno-pharma 2005/05
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva en las Mejores Practicas Españolas
    Alessandro Comai with Joaquín; Tena Millán (Joint work)Emecom, Barcelona – ISBN 13: 978-84-935178-3-0 2004/10
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva en las Multinacionales Catalanas
    Alessandro Comai with Joaquín; Tena Millán (Joint work)Emecom, Barcelona - (DL B. 24392-2004) ISBN-13: 978-84-935178-4-7 2004/05

Conference Activities & Talks

  • The Open Innovation and Market intelligence interface: The case of the Piaggio Group  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai; Marcel Bogers
    R&D 2022 Management Conference  2022/07
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  • Enablers and barriers to adopting Digital Marketing in business schools: An exploratory study in Japanese HEIs  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    EURAM 2022 Conference  2022/06
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  • Cómo extraer Insights desde grandes cantidades de texto: caso práctico sobre conversaciones informales  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    VISIO  2018/11
  • The power of Network Graph Viz: a visual mechanism for gathering insights form informal conversation  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Conference: NetSci2018 (EDSI 2017),  2018/06
  • Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Network Analysis in Financial Services  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Goethe University Frankfurt  2017/10
  • Science ecosystem: Analyzing data through real-time interactive network graphs  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    8th Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI 2017)  2017/04
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva y su contribución al desarrollo de oportunidades en el Gran Caribe  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    La Inteligencia Competitiva y su contribución al desarrollo de oportunidades en el Gran Caribe  2013/09
  • Inteligencia Competitiva y el desarrollo de la capacidad de anticipación frente a Oportunidades y Amenazas  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Talca University  2013/04
  • 7. Vigilancia Tecnológica e Inteligencia Competitiva aplicadas a las tomas de decisiones  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    PROSPECTA Colombia 2011 – IV Congreso Internacional de Propecta Internacional de Prospectiva Estratégica y Estudio de Futuro – UNAD  2011/09
  • Early Warning  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    PROSPECTA Colombia 2011 – IV Congreso Internacional de Propecta Internacional de Prospectiva Estratégica y Estudio de Futuro – UNAD  2011/09
  • Inteligencia Competitiva: Conceptos y Experiencias  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    ESADECREAPOLIS – Barcelona, España  2011/02
  • El Sistema de Inteligencia Económica como Política Pública  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Congresso: Los nuevos desafíos de la Inteligencia Estratégica y la prospectiva frente a los mercados InternacionaCongresso: Los nuevos desafíos de la Inteligencia Estratégica y la prospectiva frente a los mercados Internacionales - University of Boyacá, T  2010/09
  • Inteligencia Competitiva: estado del Arte  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Universidad de Boyacá, Colombia  2010/09
  • World-class CI function: A cluster perspective  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Université Europe-Méditerranée des clusters, Marseille, France  2007/11
  • How to select a Patent Analysis Software: a comparison between the demand and supply side  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    DCIF - Deutsches Competitive Intelligence Forum - Dresden, Germany  2006/11
  • Como desenvolver uma unidade de Inteligência Competitiva: um modelo basados nas melhores prácticas  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    1ero Workshop Internacional UPIS de Inteligência Competitiva” - UPIS - Brasilia, Brasil  2006/11
  • World-Class Competitive Intelligence Management  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    ICC 2006 - Paris, France  2006/10
  • La Evolución de la Inteligencia Competitiva en España  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    I Congresso Ibero-Americano de Gestão do Conhecimento e Inteligência Competitiva- GeCIC - Curritiba, Brasil  2006/08
  • Inteligencia Competitiva: una herramienta para la toma de decisión  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    IV Jornadas InfoDIEZ – Business Intelligence, INFODIEZ - Universidad de Zaragoza  2006/04
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva como una herramienta Estratégica para la Empresa  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    1 Jornadas de Inteligencia Empresarial Universidad de Málaga  2006/03
  • Building and Managing a CI World Class Function in Japanese Technology Companies  [Not invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    BTCI – Nihon University  2005/10
  • La Inteligencia Competitiva en España  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    FESABID - Madrid  2005/04
  • Discover Hidden Corporate Intelligence Needs by Looking at Environmental and Organizational Contingencies  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    eBRF 2004  2004/09
  • La intel·ligència competitiva a Espanya: desenvolupament actual I perspectives futures  [Invited]
    Alessandro Comai
    Bibliodoc: anuari de biblioteconomia, documentació i informació 2005  2004
  • The Open Innovation and Market Intelligence Interface: The Case of the Piaggio Group
    Alessandro Comai; Marcel Bogers
    9th ANNUAL WORLD OPEN INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2022

Works

  • Mira Analytics
    Alessandro Comai Software 2016/09 - Today
  • Several consulting activities for companies like MSD, Repsol, Gallina Blanca GB, Affinity Petcare, MetroGas, AkzoNoebel, Petrobras, among others.
    Alessandro Comai Others 2001/09 -2018/01

MISC

  • CASE STUDY: Genbei: a Japanese company manufacturing beach sandals
    Alessandro Comai  2019/10
  • CASE STUDY: Supreme: the billion-dollar streetwear brand
    Alessandro Comai  2019/09
  • CASE STUDY: Pink Lady®: Marketing Apple Fruits
    Alessandro Comai  2019/08
  • Alessandro Comai  PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION  20-  (5)  489  -493  2011/09
  • The development of the Business Intelligence function in 4 Finnish case Companies
    Alessandro Comai with Virpi Pirttimäki; Mika Hannula  Not published Report  2005/06
  • La inteligencia competitiva en la planificación estratégica y financiera
    Alessandro Comai with Joaquín; Tena Millán  Harvard-Deusto Finanza y Contabilidad  (56)  2003  [Refereed]
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Awards & Honors

  • 2023/08 American Marketing Association Reviewer for the AMA winter conference American Marketing Association, 2023
  • 2023/04 American Marketing Association Reviewer for the AMA summer conference American Marketing Association, 2023
  • 2022/07 Reviewer Editorial Board World Open Innovation Conference 2022 (WOIC) Reviewer Editorial Board World Open Innovation Conference 2022 (WOIC)
  • 2022/02 Reviewer for the EURAM 2022 Annual Conference EURAM
  • 2022/02 Reviewer for the Journal World Patent Information World Patent Information
  • 2020/10 Editorial Reviewer for Journal of the Knowledge Economy Journal of the Knowledge Economy
  • 2020/07 World Open Innovation Conference 2020 (WOIC) Reviewer Editorial Board World Open Innovation Conference
  • 2019/07 World Open Innovation Conference 2019 (WOIC) Reviewer Editorial Board
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2019/06 6th International Conference on Indo-Pacific Studies at MLIC
     Conference Chair - Marketing Track 
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2019/04 World Patent Information Reviewer for the Journal
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2018/12 El professional de la Información Invited as a Reviewer
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2018/12 International Journal of Big Data Management (IJBDM) Editorial Board invited
     Editorial Board 
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2018/11 Hult Prize at International University of Japan Selection committee
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2018/06 World Open Innovation Conference 2018 (WOIC) Reviewer Editorial Board
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai
  • 2018/03 EURAM 2018 Annual Conference - Reviewer for the
     
    受賞者: Alessandro Comai

Teaching Experience

  • Marketing Management (Global Leadership Program)IUJ
  • Marketing ManagementIUJ
  • Digital Marketing and Customer JourneyIUJ
  • Marketing IntelligenceIUJ, UPF, IDEC, ICADE, ISM
  • Global Strategic MarketingIUJ
  • Marketing Management (FUJITSU Global Leadership Program GLIK)
  • Incompany teachingPetrobras, Novartis, Spanish Government, among others.
  • Early WarningIESE - Universidad de Navarra
  • Market ResearchIUJ
  • ForesightICADE

Others

  • 2018/04 -2018/04 Research Ethics e-Learning Course
    Research Ethics e-Learning Course (e-Learning Course on Research Ethics) [eL CoRE] developed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2018/03 -2018/03 Assurance of Learning Seminar I, by AACSB International.
    Assurance of Learning Seminar I, Abu Dhabi organized by AACSB International. Abu Dhabi University; College of Business Administration Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 59911.

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