Giovanni Perrone is professor of Business and Management Engineering at the University of Palermo. He is Head of the Department of Engineering at University of Palermo and President of AiIG (the Italian scientific association of business and management engineering scholars). He is also President of Service Innovation Laboratory S.c.r.a.l.. He was President of PNICube (the national Association of University Business Incubators) from 2016-2019, President of the EurOMA (the European Operations Management Association) from June 2016 to June 2019. He is Member of the Steering Committee for the Italian Minister of Research and Education for the program HEInnovate. Furthermore, he was Director of the Engineering Management Degree programme at the University of Palermo from 2005-2011, member of the board of ARCA - the Business Incubator of the University of Palermo from 2008 to 2011 and member of the board of the ISIDA Business School. 

Giovanni Perrone teaches “Industrial organization and Strategies and Business Game” and “Technology analysis and Strategic Management” both at the master level of the Business and Management Engineering program at the University of Palermo.

He was visiting scholar at MIT (Cambridge - USA), visiting scientist at Aachen Technical University and visiting professor at North Carolina State University. During is carrier Prof. Giovanni Perrone has managed about 4 Million of Euros in research projects at several levels (EU, national research projects, industrial projects). The scientific activity of professor Perrone is focused on Operations and Innovation Management. He holds 72 international journals publications, which are recorded in the Scopus database where he has an h-index of 19 and about 980 citations. He acts as member of the board of editors and reviewer for several international journals.