Detailed Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
2021 – Present: Professor (ING-IND/35) – University of
Bologna, IT
2020 – Present: Coordinator – PhD Program in Management – University of Bologna, IT
2019 – Present: Academic Director – Entrepreneurship Hub – Bologna Business School, IT
2022 – Present: Visiting Professor – Ghent University, BE
2016 – Present: Visiting Professor – Imperial College Business School London, UK
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
2023 – 2023: Otto Monsted Visiting Professor – Danish Technical University, DK
2019 – 2023: Visiting Professor – Nord University, NO
2015 – 2019: Director of the Global MBA Innovation Management – Bologna Business School, IT
2015 – 2018: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Bologna Business School, IT
2014 – 2021: Associate Professor (ING-IND/35) – University of Bologna, IT
2013 – 2023: Director of Executive Master in Entrepreneurship – Bologna Business School, IT
2011 – 2016: Research Fellow – Imperial College Business School, London, UK
2011 – 2014: Assistant Professor (ING-IND/35) – University of
Bologna, IT
2009 – 2010: Researcher with a fixed term contract (SECS-P/08) –
University of Bolzano, IT
2008 – 2009: Post–doc Research Fellow – Case Western
Reserve University, USA
2008 – 2008: Post–doc Research Fellow – University of
Bologna, IT
2003 – 2004: Research Assistant – University of
Bologna, IT
EDUCATION
2005 – 2008: University of Bologna – PhD in Business
Administration
1997 – 2003: University of Bologna
– Laurea Degree in
Management Engineering
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2018: Professor (ING-IND/35) – Roma, IT
2014: Associate Professor (ING-IND/35) – Roma, IT
2003: Profession of Engineer – Bologna, IT
WORKING EXPERIENCE (PRIVATE SECTOR)
2022 – Present: Co-founder – FieldRobotics, Terrestrial and aerial autonomous robots, Bologna, IT
2004 – 2004: Assistant project manager
– Sipe Consortium, Vignola,
Modena, IT
1998 – 2002: Co-founder
– Gardosi & Co., Advanced
mechanics – Optical industry, Modena, IT
VISITING PERIODS
2023 – 2023: Copenhagen University IFRO – Visiting professor (May 2023 – July 2023), Copenhagen, DK
2007 – 2008: Case Western Reserve University – Visiting
scholar (September 2007 – April 2008), Cleveland, USA
2007 – 2007: Ecole des Mines de Paris – Visiting scholar (May – July
2007), Paris, FR
2002 – 2003: UCLA – Visiting student (August 2002 – July 2003),
Los Angeles, USA
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS and SCHOLARSHIPS
2012 – 2016: EU Marie Curie Fellowship
CIG – University of Bologna
2010 – 2011: EU Marie Curie Fellowship IEF – Imperial College
London
2008 – 2009: IRI Foundation scholarship – Case Western Reserve
University
2005 – 2007: Doctoral scholarship – University of Bologna
CONTRACT RESEARCH
2016 – 2016: CAAB on "Local attractiveness - Bologna and Emilia Romagna"
2015 – 2016: MIUR-ANVUR on "Entrepreneurship from public research centers in Italy"
2015 – 2017: MIUR-ANVUR on "Student Entrepreneurship in Italy"
2014 – 2015: MIUR-ANVUR on "Academic Entrepreneurship in Italy"
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2022 – Present: Principal investigator – Project Circular Innovation Ecosystems – University of Bologna
2018 – 2021: Co-Principal investigator – Project Academic MOBILITY in Italy: Determinants, relevance and impact – with L. Toschi, University of Bologna
2013 – Present: Co-Principal investigator – Project ALMALAUREA on
students entrepreneurship – with M. Sobrero, University of
Bologna
2013 – 2016: Team member – Project FARB Academic
entrepreneurship in Europe: Assessing individual, organizational
and enviromental determinants – coordinated by S. Torrisi, and R.
Grimaldi, funded by University of Bologna
2012 – 2016: Coordinator – Working Group
Entrepreneurship – FoodBest EU Consortium – University of Bologna
2012 - Present: Principal investigator – TASTE
project (TAking STock: External engagement by
academics) – EU grant – with M. Sobrero, University
of Bologna
2010 – Present: Co-Principal investigator – TRACK
project (TRansferring ACademic Knowledge) – EU
grant – with E. Autio and M. Perkmann, Imperial College
London, UK
2010 – 2010: Principal investigator – MUIC project (Mapping
University–Industry Collaborations) – with A. Narduzzo, University
of Bolzano
2008 – 2010: Team member – Who are the academic entrepreneurs in
the US? – financed by the Kauffman Foundation – coordinated by S.
Shane, Case Western Reserve University, USA
2005 – 2013: Co–Founder (with R. Grimaldi and M. Sobrero)
of OSIRIDE
Observatory – Academic Spin–offs in Emilia Romagna
2006 – 2010: Team member – IRIS
project (Italian Research Innovation Systems) – FIRB grant
– coordinated by M. Sobrero, University of Bologna
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
2023: Conference – Fostering Innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Implications For Theory And Practice (with I. Nikiforou, E. Rasmussen, J. Wiklund), 5-7/6/23, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
2022: Conference – Boosting entrepreneurial skills and mindsets: theories, methods and impact (with E. Rasmussen, J. Wiklund), 22/11/21; 16/2/22; 18-20/5/22, Bologna Business School, Bologna, IT
2020: Summit – Triple Helix International Summit, 24-26/11/20, Bologna, IT
2020: Conference – 10th Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SEI) Faculty Workshop and Doctoral Consortium, 6-8/11/20, University of Bologna, IT
2020: Conference – Invention to Innovation: Creating the conditions for impact, R&D Management Symposium – (with E. Maine, S. Lubik et al.) 4-5/8/20, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2019: Conference – The Future of Conducting and Publishing Research in Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management and Strategy - A Paper Development Workshop for Early-Career Scholars – (with E. Rasmussen, J. Wiklund), 22-24/05/19, Bologna Business School, Bologna, IT
2018: Symposium – Exploring the multi-faceted non-economic goals of entrepreneurial firms (with L. Cassia, A. Colombelli, D. Hahn e T. Minola), 12/10/18, XXIX Conference AIIG, Varese IT
2018: Symposium – It’s All About Impact: Commercialization, Academic Engagement, and Entrepreneurship – (with M. Wright), 08/08/18, Academy of Management, Chicago, USA
2018: Symposium – Leveraging open innovation to improve society (with Ahn J., Mortara L. e Roijakkers N.), 2-4/7/2018, R&D Management Conference, Milano, IT
2017: Research Workshop – University-Industry Collaborations and Academic Entrepreneurship: East meets West – (with E. Rasmussen, M. Takata, R. Tijssen and P.K. Wong), 5-6/06/17, Bologna Business School, Bologna, IT
2017: Research Seminar – Imprenditorialità: il ruolo chiave delle competenze trasversali – (with E. Luppi, D. Bolzani, R. Grimaldi and D. Guglielmi), 30/01/17, Department of Management, University of Bologna, IT
2016: Research Seminar – Management meet ICT and Return: New trends in data science, 25/10/16, Department of Management, University of Bologna, IT
2016 - 2023: Practitioner Conference – Entrepreneurial Start-up Ecosystem Day, Bologna Business School, Bologna, IT
2016: Symposium – The commercialization of science: An integrative research agenda on managing the science-business interfaces – (with E. Rasmussen, D. Siegel e J. Wiklund), 08/08/16, Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA
2016: Research Seminar – Transferring Academic Knowledge at Imperial College London, TRIC workshop – (with M. Perkmann), 20/05/16, Imperial College London, London, UK
2016: Practitioner Conferences - A context of excellence, the excellence in the context - Fintech (31/3/16), Automazione (28/4/2016) e Agro-Alimentare (26/5/16), San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, IT
2015: Conference – Science-based Entrepreneurship Workshop – (with R. Grimaldi, E. Rasmussen, J.
Wiklund and M. Wright), 6-8/05/15, University of Bologna
Business School, Bologna, IT
2014: XXV AIIG Conference – (with A. Zanoni, M. Sobrero et
al.), 16/10/14, Bologna, IT
2014: Symposium – Boosting economic growth: entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship in manufacturing and related industries - (with A. Colombelli, F. Frattini,
T. Minola and A. Petruzzelli), 16/10/14, XXV Conference AIIG,
Bologna, IT
2014: Research Workshop – Entrepreneurship in the EU: new data, methods and approaches - (with E. Rasmussen and J.
Wiklund), 18-20/05/14, Bodo University, NO
2014: Research Seminar - Fifteen years of Academic Entrepreneurship in Italy: Evidence from the Project TASTE - (with D. Bolzani, R. Grimaldi e M. Sobrero), 12/05/2014, Alma Graduate School, Bologna, IT
2014: Research Seminar – Imprenditorialità nel nord-est Italia - (with C. Boari and S.
Torrisi), 17/01/14, University of Bologna, IT
2013: Symposium – The development of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures: the role of founders - (with D. Iacobucci, T. Minola and E.
Piva), 17/09/13, XXIV AIIG Conference, Milano, IT
2013: Professional Development Workshop – The Fonts of Entrepreneurship: Individuals, Organisations, Institutional Settings - (with T. Folta
and R. Grimaldi), 10/08/13, Academy of Management, Orlando,
USA
2012: Professional Development Workshop – Research on universities and science: Geography, institutions and disciplinary fields - (with N.
Lacetera, A. Nelson, M. Perkmann and H. Sauermann), 08/08/12, Academy of Management, Boston, USA
2011: Professional Development Workshop – Research on universities and commercialisation: Contributions to management research – (with N.
Lacetera, A. Nelson, M. Perkmann and H. Sauermann), 12/08/10, Academy of Management, San Antonio, USA
2010: Professional Development Workshop – Research on university research commercialization: approaches, methodologies, and data sources - (with N. Lacetera and M. Perkmann), 06/08/10, Academy of Management, Montreal, CA
2010: Research Workshop - Universities on a third mission - DIME Network – (with M. McKelvey,
M. Perkmann and M. Sobrero), 11/02/2010, Alma Graduate School,
Bologna, IT
PHD EXAM COMMISSION
2020: Politecnico di Torino (IT)
2019: University of Bergamo (IT)
2018: University of Pisa (IT); University La Sapienza Roma (IT)
2017: Kingston University (UK); Politecnico di Milano (IT)
2015: Polytechnic of Bari (IT)
2012: Ghent University (BE); Esade Business School
(SP)
EDITOR
2018 – Present: Associate Editor - Journal of Technology Transfer
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2020 – Present: Journal of Business Venturing
2019 – Present: International Small Business Journal
2018 – Present: Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice
2017 – Present: Journal of Management Studies
2017 – Present: Administrative Sciences
2017 – Present: Innovation: Organization & Management
AD HOC REVIEWER
Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Perspectives; Business Process Management Journal; Current Psychology; European Management Journal; European Management Review; Industrial and Corporate Change; Industrial Marketing Management; Industry and Innovation; International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Industrial and Business Economics; Journal of Small Business Management; Journal of Strategy and Management; Long Range Planning; Organization Science; Plos One; R&D Management; Research Evaluation; Research Policy; Sage Open; Science and Public Policy; Scientometrics; Small Business Economics; Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal; Strategic Management Journal; Technological Forecast and Social Change; Technovation.
RESEARCH PROJECT EVALUATOR
KU Leuven Research Grants of the University of Leuven (BE); Swiss National Science Foundation (CH); Management studies fellowship of the Fundacao Francisco Manuel dos Santos of Lisbon (P); SSHRC Insight Grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (CA); International fellowship of the Polytechnic of Milan (IT); EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (EU); New Research Project grant of the Research Foundation Flanders (BE) and Future in Research grant of the Ministry of Italian Universities and Research MIUR (IT).
BEST PAPER AWARDS AND PROCEEDINGS
2023: Academy of Management Conference (USA) - Best paper proceedings
2015: Triple Helix Conference Beijing (CN) - Best conference paper
2013: Babson College Conference Lyon (FR) - Best paper proceedings
2012: Druid Society Conference Copenhagen (DK) - Best paper proceedings
2010: Babson College Conference Lausanne (CH) - Best paper proceedings
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
2023: University of Bergamo
2022: Open Entrepreneurship Danish Technical University
2021: R&D Management Conference Glasgow
2018: HSE campus Nizhny Novgorod and RUDN University Moscow
2016: Triple Helix Worldwide Webinar on Entrepreneurial Universities
2015: Porto Business School; NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
Singapore; University of Queensland Brisbane
INVITED RESEARCH TALKS
2022: Cass Bayes Business School; IMT Lucca; DTU Copenhagen
2021: DTU Technical University of Denmark; CNR Italy; University of Cambridge
2020: Warwick Business School; University of Bordeaux
2019: IE Madrid
2018: ISG Paris; IESEG Paris
2017: ETH Zurich; University of Bergamo; Fondazione Bruno Kessler IRVAPP Trento; ANVUR Rome
2016: University of Kassel; Imperial College London; EPFL Lausanne; Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Unisinos
2015: Catolica Lisbon; National University of Singapore
Business School; Hong Kong Science and Technology University; National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Center; Queensland University of Technology; Collegio Carlo Alberto - University of Turin
2014: University of Strathclyde Glasgow; Bodo
University; Leiden University
2013: Purdue University; University of Illinois
Chicago
2012: Bodo University
2011: Polytechnic of Milan; Cass Business School London;
Bocconi University
2010: University of Cambridge; Luiss
Roma; University of Bologna
2009: Universidad Politecnica de Valencia; Imperial
College Business School; EM-Lyon; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa;
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland; University
of Bologna; Copenhagen Business School
2008: University of Cambridge; Case Western Reserve
University Cleveland; Polytechnic of Milan
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Boston, USA)
2022: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Seattle, USA); AiIG (Roma, IT)
2021: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Virtual); Egos Colloquium (Vienna, AU); Babson College (Babson, USA)
2020: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Vancouver, CA); Strategic Management Society (London, UK)
2019: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Boston, USA); Triple Helix (Cape Town, SA); Egos Colloquium (Edinburgh UK); DRUID Society (Copenhagen, DK); Regional Innovation Policies conference (Florence, IT); AIIG Conference (Torino, IT)
2018: Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Chicago, USA); Triple Helix (Dubai, AE); Workshop on A Multidisciplinary Perspective into Entrepreneurship (Gent, BE)
2017: Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (Norman, Oklahoma, USA); Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Huston, USA); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Atlanta, USA); EGOS Colloquium (Copenhagen, DK); Druid Conference (New York, USA); INSEAD Doriot Entrepreneurship Conference (Paris, FR)
2016: SMS Special Conference (Rome, IT); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Anaheim, USA); EGOS Colloquium (Naples, IT); EURAM Conference (Paris, FR); Workshop on university-industry interactions (Fukuoka, J); Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (Berlin, DE); 12th Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory (Lucerne, CH); AIIG XXVII Conference (Bergamo, IT); Management meet ICT workshop (Bologna, IT)
2015: Finkt Project Final Conference (Rimini, IT);
Science-Based Entrepreneurship Workshop (Bologna, IT); Universities
and Public Science Imperial College Conference (London, UK); Egos
Colloquium (Athens, GR); Alberta Institutions Conference (Alberta,
CA); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Vancouver, CA); Triplex
Helix Conference (Beijing, CN); Technology Transfer Society (Dublin, IE)
2014: SMS Special Conference (Tel Aviv,
IL); AIIG XXV Conference (Bologna, IT); OECD Conference on
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Enterprise Dynamics (Paris,
FR)
2013: T2S Conference (Bergamo, IT); AIIG XXIV
Riunione scientifica (Milano, IT); Babson College
Entrepreneurship Research Conference (Lyon, FR); Paul Lawrence
Conference Harvard (Boston, USA); AIB Conference (Istanbul,
TU); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Orlando,
USA); DRUID Society (Barcelona, SP)
2012: DRUID Society (Copenhagen, DK); EGOS
Colloquium (Helsinki, FI); Academy of Management Annual
Meeting (Boston, USA)
2011: DIME Final Conference (Maastricht,
NL); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (San Antonio,
USA)
2010: AIIG XXI Riunione scientifica (L'Aquila,
IT); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Montreal, CA);
DRUID Society (London, UK); Babson College Entrepreneurship
Research Conference (Lausanne, SW); TI:GER/Kauffman Sponsored
Workshop (Atlanta, USA)
2009: AIIG XX Riunione scientifica (Udine,
IT); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Chicago, USA);
EPIP 4th Annual Conference (Bologna, IT); Kauffman-OECD Workshop
(Kansas City, USA); DRUID Society (Copenhagen, DK); EGOS Colloquium
(Barcelona, SP); Kauffman Foundation Workshop (Atlanta, USA)
2008: AIIG XIX Riunione scientifica (Palermo, IT); DRUID
Society (Copenhagen, DK); PICO project Workshop (Sestri Levante,
IT)
2007: T2S Conference (Riverside, USA)
2006: AIIG XVII Riunione scientifica (Roma,
IT); Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Atlanta, USA);
IECER IV Conference (Regensburg, DE)
2005: RENT XIX Conference (Napoli, IT)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate
2011 – Present: Lecturer – Principles of management 37068 – University of Bologna
2014 – 2014: Lecturer – Entrepreneurship BS0606 – Imperial College London
2010 – 2010: Lecturer – Innovation management BS0820 – Imperial College London
2006 – 2010: Teaching assistant (A. Zanoni) – Management of the firm – University of Bologna
2008 – 2008: Invited lecturer (S. Shane) – Economics of technological innovation ECON369 – Case Western Reserve University
2008 – 2008: Invited lecturer (H. Royer) – Econometrics ECON326 – Case Western Reserve University
2004 – 2007: Teaching assistant (R. Grimaldi) – Principles of management – University of Bologna
Master
2016 – Present: Lecturer – Laboratory of Business Plan 78858 – University of Bologna
2016 – Present: Lecturer – Business Plan Development – Global MBA, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
2014 – Present: Lecturer – Managing Engineering and Construction Processes 35493 – University of Bologna
2015 – 2015: Lecturer – Entrepreneurship BS1513 – Imperial College London
2014 – 2016: Lecturer – Business Plan Development – Laboratorio d'Impresa T-A, University of Bologna
2012 – 2012: Lecturer – Innovation Management – Master in Management, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
2011 – 2014: Lecturer – Entrepreneurship – Summer School in Biotechnology, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
2008 – 2009: Lecturer – New venture creation – Spinner Project, Alma Mater Foundation, Bologna;
2007 – 2007: Invited lecturer (A. Zanoni) – Supply chain management, MBA Made in Italy, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
Executive
2014 – Present: Lecturer – Business Plan Development – Executive Master in Entrepreneurship, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
2009 – 2013: Teaching assistant (R. Grimaldi) – Technology Entrepreneurship, Executive Master in Technology and Innovation Management, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
2011 – 2011: Teaching assistant (A. Lipparini) – Corporate Strategy, Executive MBA, Bologna Business School, University of Bologna
PhD
2018: Lecturer – Module in the PhD Creativity and Entrepreneurship Winter School – for PhD students, University of Bologna (IT)
2017: Lecturer – Module in the From IP Management to Technology transfer for Business course – for PhD students in chemistry, University of Bologna (IT)
2017 – Present: Lecturer – Module in the Economics and Management of Innovation course – for PhD students in General Management, Department of Management, University of Bologna (IT)
2015 – Present: Lecturer – Module in the Technology Management and Entrepreneurship course – for PhD students in General Management, Department of Management, University of Bologna (IT)
2015: Lecturer – Module in the Business Plan Development course – Launchpad for PhD students, University of Bologna (IT)
2011: Lecturer – Module in the Business Plan Development course – FIXO Program on Knowledge Transfer for UNIBO PhD students, University of Bologna (IT)
2010: Lecturer – EDEN doctoral tutorial I on Entrepreneurship and Innovation – EIASM network, 15-16 November 2010, Imperial College London (UK)