Leid Zejnilovic é Professor Auxiliar na Nova SBE com um duplo doutoramento em Mudança Tecnológica e Empreendedorismo pela Universidade Carnegie Mellon e pela Católica-Lisboa School of Business and Economics. É também Engenheiro de Telecomunicações com Mestrado em Tecnologias de Informação e Mestrado em Engenharia e Políticas Públicas. Foi co-fundador de várias empresas de alta tecnologia e plataformas online e tem mais de 20 anos de experiência internacional em consultoria e gestão tecnológica. Como empresário académico, co-fundou dois centros de conhecimento na Nova SBE, o Data Science Knowledge Center e o Open and User Innovation Knowledge Center, onde desempenha as funções de Diretor Académico e Diretor Científico Adjunto, respectivamente. Ajudou também a lançar a plataforma do Patient Innovation para pacientes e prestadores de cuidados de saúde partilharem soluções inovadoras feitas pelo próprio para lidar com os seus distúrbios de saúde. Leid é co-fundador da Data Science for Social Good Foundation e editor associado da Data & Policy Journal. Nos últimos anos, Leid ensinou ou liderou programas académicos na NovaSBE, Imperial College Business School, e no Instituto Ludwig Boltzmann, entre outros locais. Leid deu mais de 100 palestras na indústria e no meio académico. 

2014 - Doutoramento em Estratégia, Empreendedorismo e Mudança Tecnológica - Carnegie Mellon University / Universidade Católica de Portugal

2012 - Mestrado em Engenharia e Política Pública - Carnegie Mellon University

2007 - Mestrado em Tecnologia de Informação - Dzemal Bijedic University

2002 - Licenciatura em Telecomunicações - University of Sarajevo  

Tecnologia e Gestão da Inovação, Interacção Humano-Computador

• Applebee, Samuel, Zejnilovic, Leid (2026). 'De facto' responsible innovation in early-stage ventures: The reinforcing role of impact investors. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 13 (1).
• Abreu Novais, Margarida, Del Papa, Bruno, Han, Qiwei, Mohan, Kaushik, Vásárhelyi, Orsolya, Wang, Yanbing, Zejnilovic, Leid (2025). Investigating patterns of tourist movement using multiple data sources. (Accepted/In press) Journal of Vacation Marketing.
• Lavado, Susana, Costa, Eduardo, Sturm, Niclas F, Tafferner, Johannes S, Rodrigues, Octávio, Pita Barros, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid (2025). Low-cost and scalable machine learning model for identifying children and adolescents with poor oral health using survey data: An empirical study in Portugal. PLoS ONE, 20 (1).
• Zejnilović, Leid, Lavado, Susana, Grilo, Catarina, Sá, Rita, Faias, Sérgio (2024). The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on portuguese marine small-scale fisheries: A regional analysis. Marine Policy, 165.
• Oliveira, Pedro, Cennamo, Carmelo, Zejnilovic, Leid (2022). Unlocking innovation in healthcare: The case of the patient innovation platform. California Management Review, 64 (4), 47-77.
• Han, Qiwei, Abreu Novais, Margarida, Zejnilovic, Leid (2021). Toward travel pattern aware tourism region planning: a big data approach. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 33 (6), 2157-2175.
• Genzlinger, Felix, Zejnilovic, Leid, Bustinza, Oscar F. (2020). Servitization in the automotive industry: how car manufacturers become mobility service providers. Strategic Change, 29 (2), 215-226.
• Zejnilovic, Leid, Lavado, Susana Margarida Silva Ferreira, Troya, Inigo Martinez De Rituerto De, Sim, Samantha, Bell, Andrew (2020). Algorithmic long-term unemployment risk assessment in use: counselors’ perceptions and use and practices . Global Perspectives, 1 (1).
• Oliveira, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid, Azevedo, Salomé, Rodrigues, Ana Maria, Canhão, Helena (2019). Peer Adoption and Development of Health Innovations by Patients: National Representative Study of 6204 Citizens. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21 (3), e11726.
• Canhao, Helena, Oliveira, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid (2017). Patient innovation: empowering patients, sharing solutions, improving lives. NEJM Catalyst , 3 (5).
• Canhao, Helena, Zejnilovic, Leid, Oliveira, Pedro (2017). Revolutionising healthcare by empowering patients to innovate. European Medical Journal - Innovations, 1 (1), 31-34.
• Oliveira, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid, Canhão, Helena, Von Hippel, Eric (2015). Innovation by patients with rare diseases and chronic needs. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 10 (1).
• Oliveira, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid, Canhão, Helena, Von Hippel, Eric (2014). Patient innovation under rare diseases and chronic needs. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 9 (1), 1.

• da Silva, Ricardo Coelho, Zejnilovic, Leid, Oliveira, Pedro (2023). Improvisation and bricolage: Similarities and differences between two approaches to resource scarcity. The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations. Taylor & Francis, 29-49.
• Zejnilovic, Leid, Campos, Pedro (2023). Project-based learning with a social impact: Connecting data science movements, civic statistics, and service-learning. Statistics for empowerment and social engagement. : Teaching civic statistics to develop informed citizens. Springer, 537–562.
• Oliveira, Pedro, Zejnilovic, Leid, Canhao, Helena (2017). Challenges and opportunities in developing and sharing solutions by patients and caregivers: the story of a knowledge commons for the patient innovation project. 1st ed. Governing Medical Knowledge Commons. Strandburg, Katherine J., Frischmann, Brett M., Madison, Michael J. (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, 301-325.
• Zejnilovic, Leid, Oliveira, Pedro, Canhao, Helena (2016). Innovations by and for patients, and their place in the future health care system. Boundaryless Hospital. : Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management. Albach, Horst, Meffert, Heribert, Pinkwart, Andreas, Reichwald, Ralf, von Eiff, Wilfried (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 341-357.