Simone Ferriani is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Bologna, Honorary Professor at Cass Business School and Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University. Simone’s current research employs a mix of qualitative techniques and large datasets to study the social sources of innovation. In his current research, he works at the intersection of historical methods, lab experiments, and network analysis to study how the structure of evaluating audiences shapes the social valuation of novelty. His work has been published in various international outlets such as American Sociological Review, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Strategic Organization.