Silvia Poli

Ph.D. candidate in General Management.

Previously, she had a research grant on university-business collaboration readiness at the UniBo's Management department. She holds a master's degree in Forecasting, Innovation and Change (International Relations) from the University of Bologna.

Since 2023 she is part of the Game Science Research Center and Oper.Lab - Observatory for Open Innovation, part of the University of Bologna’s Innovation Factory Oper.Space.

In 2024, she founded DoCommunity, the UniBo's Management department early career community that organises monthly seminars for research and researchers development, and activities for scholar wellbeing and social networking.

In 2025, she visited the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Utrecht UniversitySchool of Economics.

Her main research interests are entrepreneurial support and entrepreneurial ecosystems. She observes them in the creative and cultural sector.