Full Professor of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) and Dean of the Class of Social Sciences since 2025. He is also Chief Innovation Officer of the Italian National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the R&D Management journal. He serves as the Italian delegate to the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy and is a Research Fellow at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), University of California, Berkeley.

He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on innovation management, open innovation, technology transfer, intellectual property management, and the internationalization of R&D. He has published extensively in leading journals including Research Policy, California Management Review, R&D Management, and the Journal of International Business Studies. He has also served as an advisor on innovation policy to the Italian Minister of Education and Research and to the European Commission, and contributes as a columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore.