Marlene Grande

Marlene Grande is Scientific Researcher for UTEN Portugal.

Master in International Business and Economics at Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

She was born in Hamburg, Germany, on December 20, 1986. She finished her high-school education in Hamburg and started undergraduate studies at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto in 2006. In 2009 she received the Licenciatura em Línguas e Relações Internacionais degree. She concluded her post graduate studies in 2011 at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, with the master dissertation entitled “Corruption and MNCs’ entry mode. An empirical econometric study of Portuguese firms internationalizing to PALOPs”.

An article from the dissertation was accepted for presentation in the ‘Advances in Business-Related Scientific Research Conference 2011’ (Venice, June 1-3, 2011). The corresponding thesis proposal was published in Economics and Management Research Projects: An International Journal, 2011, 1 (1): 36-52.

She is currently undertaking, together with Aurora Teixeira and James Jarrett, two main research studies: “2011 Survey of Technology Transfer Offices in Portugal” and “Portuguese Knowledge Intensive Firms associated with universities and science and technology parks members of UTEN: a comprehensive assessment”.