Liliana Herrera
Director of Technology Transfer. University of León
Dr. Liliana Herrera is an Associate Professor at the University of León in Spain, she has extensively worked in the R&D policy effects evaluation as well as in the area of scientific knowledge transfer. Since 2002 she has been working at the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of León, where she obtained her PhD in Business Administration. Her PhD Thesis was about the innovation policies. Her research is geared towards estimating the effects of public instruments supporting industrial innovation. She has published several papers indexed in the Journal Citation Reports that reveal the importance of public support to stimulate the innovative activity of firms. She has evaluated several public support instruments that range from R&D subsidies to mobility of human resources in science and technology. She has evaluated the impact of these instruments on the innovation behaviour of firms. Liliana Herrera has worked with several data sources and she has evaluated R&D programs at regional, national and European levels. In particular, she has analysed the interactions between instruments taking into account firm size, firm location and the industry. Her most recent research focuses on scientific knowledge transfer from the R&D public system to the industry through assessing the mobility of researchers. She analyses how firms take advantage of the knowledge and skills embodied by theses human resources, as well as their roles played in the innovation process of firms. She has participated actively in more than 20 competitive research projects. She has published articles in: Jounral of Economic Surveys, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, Safety Science, BRQ-Business Research Quaterly, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, among others.
Dr. Liliana Herrera is an Associate Professor at the University of León in Spain, she has extensively worked in the R&D policy effects evaluation as well as in the area of scientific knowledge transfer. Since 2002 she has been working at the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of León, where she obtained her PhD in Business Administration. Her PhD Thesis was about the innovation policies. Her research is geared towards estimating the effects of public instruments supporting industrial innovation. She has published several papers indexed in the Journal Citation Reports that reveal the importance of public support to stimulate the innovative activity of firms. She has evaluated several public support instruments that range from R&D subsidies to mobility of human resources in science and technology. She has evaluated the impact of these instruments on the innovation behaviour of firms. Liliana Herrera has worked with several data sources and she has evaluated R&D programs at regional, national and European levels. In particular, she has analysed the interactions between instruments taking into account firm size, firm location and the industry. Her most recent research focuses on scientific knowledge transfer from the R&D public system to the industry through assessing the mobility of researchers. She analyses how firms take advantage of the knowledge and skills embodied by theses human resources, as well as their roles played in the innovation process of firms. She has participated actively in more than 20 competitive research projects. She has published articles in: Jounral of Economic Surveys, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, Safety Science, BRQ-Business Research Quaterly, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, among others.