Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator

Riccardo Fini is Full Professor and Coordinator of the PhD programme in Management at the University of Bologna. He has visiting appointments at Imperial College London (UK), Gent University (BE), and Nord University (NO). He serves as director of the entrepreneurship hub at Bologna Business School. He did research at Mines Paris, Case Western Cleveland, U. Bozen, Imperial College, and Danish Technical University. His research interests include entrepreneurship, science commercialization, and impact. He is a two-time recipient of the EU Marie Curie fellowship. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He's serving as associate editor for the Journal of Technology Transfer, and his research was featured in Il Sole24Ore, Nature, Times Higher Education, and The New York Times. He's a co-founder and CEO of the science-based spin-off Fieldrobotics.

Claudio Giachetti is Full Professor of Strategy in the Department of Management at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. He was Full Professor at the Department of Management of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he also received his Ph.D. in Business. He was visiting researcher at Bayes Business School in London, at the University of Zaragoza, and at Skema Business School, and received a master's degree in International Management at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His primary research interests concern competitive dynamics in rapidly changing technological environments. He has published in various leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, and Global Strategy Journal. He is Associate Editor for Journal of Industrial and Business Economics; he was Associate Editor for Business Research Quarterly (2018-2025). He has been consulting on issues of competitive analysis and product innovation with a variety of clients from the private sector.