Alba Marino is currently an Assistant Professor in Management and Innovation at the University of Messina. She collaborated with the Freedom Project at the University of Pennsylvania and the iBEGIN research team at the Fox School of Business at Temple University (Philadelphia, US). She held fellowships at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Alma Mater - University of Bologna. In December 2019, she became a research affiliate at the Bureau of Research on Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (BRICK) at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin). Since June 2021, she has been a part-time visiting researcher at the Department of Strategy and Innovation of the Copenhagen Business School.

Her current research projects include the role of global co-inventorship networks and migration in knowledge creation, the antecedents of green technologies and the determinants of innovative processes in peripheral areas.