Bez Sea

Dr. Sea Matilda Bez is an associate professor at Montpellier Management Institute (University of Montpellier). She has been involved for three years in the project steering committee in the Horizon 2020 project DiHECO specialized on digital platform in health. She has published several papers in academic journal on patient feedback platform, coopetition, open-innovation and artificial intelligence.

She completed her Ph.D on “Strategizing and Managing Coopetition”. Her Ph.D. highlighted one of the most successful coopetitive projects: a coopetitive project that generated 100 billion dollars. The interested stake of her research describes how competitors can share their core competitive advantage transparently and even teach each other how to become stronger. It is counter-intuitive and in contradiction with the traditional strategic approach of keeping secret firms’ core competitive advantage. Then, she did a post-doctoral research with Henry Chesbrough at Berkeley California University on open –coopetition.

Moreover, in addition to academic activities, she has given invited presentations in front of innovation directors and alliance managers from the Silicon Valley or French companies, and be in charge of fostering a collaborative environment between the academic and practitioner for Avery Dennison, Enel, Tech Mahindra.