Clio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna - Department of Management, where she teaches Organisation Science in the Master of Management Engineering. She is in the Faculty of Bologna Business School as Professor of Innovation and Master Co-Director. She is part of Oper.space, the Innovation Factory of the University of Bologna, where she coordinates Oper.lab (Open Innovation Observatory).
She holds a PhD in General Management (SECS P10 / ING IND 35) from the University of Bologna and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Department of Engineering Sciences and Methods) and at the University of Bologna (Department of Management).
She has been a visiting scholar at Cass Business School (2014), HPI Hasso Plattner Institute (2020), Esade Business School (2022) and CERN Ideasquare Fellow (2014-2020), where she contributed to the development of Ideasquare and innovation-related programmes.
Her research focuses on the organisational dynamics that enable innovation, mainly at the group level and at the organisational level (processes and competencies). She is passionate about understanding how organisations manage and design innovation, with an interest in tool selection (e.g. prototypes as boundary objects and simulation) and innovation design methodologies (e.g. design thinking).
In her research, she collaborates with knowledge-intensive companies (e.g. in the healthcare sector), research centres and public institutions (regional and local).
She designs educational programmes to support the development of students and professionals as innovation actors.
She is currently part of the European community Attract to promote European deep-tech innovation.
She is a member of the AiIG Italian Association of Management Engineering since 2011, of the Design Society since 2017, of the Academy of Management, of Oper.space - the innovation factory of the University of Bologna since 2019 and of the faculty of the Bologna Business School since 2018. She is Associate Editor of The CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ).
