Coordinator and Deputy coordinator

Riccardo Fini is Full Professor and Coordinator of the Ph.D. 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 at 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 a 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 Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. His primary research interests concern competitive dynamics in rapidly changing technological environments. Claudio's work has been published in various leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, and Global Strategy Journal. Claudio is Associate Editor for Business Research Quarterly and Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. Over the years, he has been consulting on corporate strategy, competitive analysis, and product innovation issues with various clients from the private sector.