Orbit 01 · Innovation

Turning possibility into a system.

For Andrea Capovilla, innovation means bringing research, engineering, industrialisation and management together in one path capable of delivering measurable results.

Accredited professional certification

Innovation Manager UNI 11814.

Andrea Capovilla is certified as an Innovation Manager under UNI 11814:2021. Certificate INNOVA2026-160, issued on 10 June 2026 by Intertek Italia, is registered in Accredia’s national database of certified professionals.

< 900UNI 11814 certifications registered with Accredia as of July 2026, across the different professional profiles covered by the standard.

Strategic levelThe Innovation Manager profile operates across vision, governance, portfolio and innovation culture.

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A method, not a slogan

Multidisciplinary innovation.

A career path shaped across California, Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy: from civil and defence R&D to advanced materials and structured innovation management.

01 · Research

Reading what does not exist yet.

Needs analysis, technology exploration, scenarios and opportunity validation before they become projects.

02 · Development

From idea to product.

Engineering, prototyping, testing, materials and processes are developed together to reduce the distance and risk between concept and industry.

03 · System

Innovation as a continuous capability.

Open innovation, planning, project portfolios and collaboration turn innovation from an isolated event into an organisational capability.

MOIM, Master in Open Innovation Management at the University of Padua

First-level Master’s degree · 2025—2026 programme

Open Innovation means opening the system.

The MOIM Master’s programme at the University of Padua, currently under way, strengthens an approach developed through international experience: combining internal and external expertise to turn ideas, knowledge and relationships into viable collaborative projects.

The model goes beyond innovation confined to R&D and builds an ecosystem involving customers, suppliers, universities, start-ups, incubators, technology partners and professional communities.

01DiscoverScouting, needs, trends, technologies, and internal and external ideas.

02ConnectStrategic networks, universities, start-ups, customers, partners and value chains.

03Co-designDesign Thinking, Technology Transfer and Knowledge Transfer.

04ScaleGovernance, IP, funding, portfolio, digital transformation and sustainability.

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Experience

An international timeline.

Four different settings, one common thread: moving complex technologies towards real applications by coordinating expertise, customers and value chains.

2005—2011

ETM Electromatic · California

R&D Program Manager for radar and RF microwave projects, including civil and defence contracts and work on medical and infrastructure applications.

2011—2014

Astrotech · Vienna

Operational management of manufacturing plants and product development in advanced elastomers and polymers.

2014—2021

Alia-Mentis · co-founder and COO

R&D and development of new civil and defence products using elastomers, thermoplastics, composites and carbon fibre for sports, automotive and aerospace applications.

2015—present

Bossvill · engineering, design & innovation

Multidisciplinary engineering, product development, interior design and international business between Italy and the Czech Republic.

2025—present

ENGIN Engineering · applied innovation

Integrated solutions connecting innovation management, energy efficiency, engineering and sustainability.

2025—2026

Master MOIM · University of Padua

A transdisciplinary programme covering Open Innovation, Design Thinking, Technology Transfer, networks, digital transformation and sustainability.

2026

UNI 11814 certified Innovation Manager

The accredited professional certification formalises a method developed in the field: governing innovation analysis, implementation, planning and management.

“Innovation is not an event. It is how an organisation learns to evolve.”

Andrea Capovilla · UNI 11814 Innovation Manager

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