PHD: Economics, Università di Siena.

Master of Science: Economics, Università di York.

His main research interests revolve around three areas: the economics of innovative entrepreneurship (major), the economics of network industries (minor) and the intersection between the two.

1. “Entrepreneurship and new product development: exploring the “advantage of youth” and “business acumen” views”, (2022), Journal of Product Innovation Management, 39, 662-685.
2. “There Must be an Angel? Local Financial Markets, Business Angels and the Financing of Innovative Start-ups”, (2019), Regional Studies, 53, 620-629.
3. “Self-selection of Entrepreneurial Firms in Thin Venture Capital Markets: Theory and Empirical Evidence”, (2019), with Fabio Bertoni and Diego D’Adda, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13, 47-74.
4. “Venture Capital in Europe: Social Capital, Formal Institutions and Mediation Effects”, (2018), with Boris Mrkajic and Gresa Latifi, Small Business Economics, 51, 393-410.
5. “Governmental and Independent Venture Capital Investments in Europe: a Firm-level Performance Analysis”, (2017), with Douglas J. Cumming and Samuele Murtinu, Journal of Corporate Finance, 42, pp. 439-459.
6. “Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-tech Entrepreneurial Firms”, (2014), with Samuele Murtinu, Research Policy, 43, pp. 1523-1543.
7. “The Creation of a Middle-management Level by Entrepreneurial Ventures: Testing Economic Theories of Organisational Design”, (2013), with Massimo G. Colombo, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 22, pp. 390-422.
8. “On Growth Drivers of High-tech Start-ups: Exploring the Role of Founders’ Human Capital and Venture Capital”, (2010), with Massimo G. Colombo, Journal of Business Venturing, 25, pp. 610-626.
9. “Founders’ Human Capital and the Growth of New Technology-based Firms: a Competence-based View”, (2005) with Massimo G. Colombo, Research Policy, 34, pp. 795-816.
10. “Entrepreneurs’ Human Capital and the Start-up Size of New Technology-based Firms”, (2004), with Massimo G. Colombo and Marco Delmastro, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 22 (8-9), pp. 1183-1211.

In both the 2023 and 2024, he entered the World Top 2% Scientists ranking, developed by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier, which identifies the top 2% for each discipline in terms of impact on global scientific research in the previous year.

1. Member - Board of the PhD in Management Engineering - Politecnico di Milano, since 2012.
2. Member of the Steering Committee of the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, since 2023.
3. President of the Graduation Commission (Bachelor and Msc Levels) in Management Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, 2014-2020.
4. Member - Steering Committe of the PhD in Management Engineering - Politecnico di Milano, 2019-2024.
5. Member - National Committee on the “Monitoring and Evaluation of National policies for the Eco-system of Italian Innovative Start-ups” (National law no. 221/2012), appointed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE), 2014-2018.
6. Chairman - Jury for the EWB Youth Business Challenge “Start-ups for Sustainable Development Goals” promoted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the years 2017 and 2018.
7. Editor of journal special issues for Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Small Business Economics, Research Policy, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.
8. Member of the "Editorial Review Board" of the Journal of Small Business Management (2012-2022), Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (2015-2020), since 2018 Member of the "Editorial Review Board" of Small Business Economics, since 2021 Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
9. Reviewer for many scientific journals.
10. Referee for several national and international research grants.