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I am an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University’s Management and Technology Department, and an ICRIOS fellow.
I am also an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute for Labor Research.
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University and a junior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany.
My research focuses on the innovation strategy of firms under competition. With this, I study topics in strategic management and the economics of innovation, interlinked with topics in industrial organization, science, and human capital.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics with summa cum laude from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Before, I studied Economics at the University of Bonn (Master) and the University of Heidelberg (Bachelor). During the last years, I have visited Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
I am co-organizing MInERS - the Milan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Seminars - a joint effort of innovation and entrepreneurship scholars from Milan universities (Polimi, Bicocca, Cattolica, Statale, Bocconi) to foster a local research network.
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Recent posts
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We are excited that our working paper “Innovate to Lobby? European Firms and Corporate Lobbying during Climate Change Regulation” is online and was nominated...
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I am deeply grateful to have received the 2025 Sebastian Hoenen Research Prize from the SEI Consortium. The prize is awarded annually in recognition of schol...
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Great news! The paper “Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D” (see here for details) is forthcoming in Management Scien...
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For the next installment of our Milan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Seminar Series, we have Prof. Thomas Hellmann (Oxford) speaking on “The Burden...
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For the next installment of our budding Milan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Seminar Series, we have Prof. Paola Criscuolo (Imperial College) speak...
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Excited that an abridged version of our working paper “Competing for Talent: Large Firms and Startup Growth” will be included in the “Academy of Management P...
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Released as working paper: “Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben” SSRN. Further information are available on the research page. The paper was...
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I received the Otto Hahn Medal, the dissertation award of the Max Planck Society, for my dissertation on “Corporate Innovation – The Role of Scientific Disco...
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New working paper released: Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation. For details, look on the research page or directly at CEPR.
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I am very excited to start a position as Postdoctoral Associate at the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University Law.
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I’m very excited and grateful to have the opportunity to virtually spend a semester at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, via t...
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Annual workshop for Ph.D. students and Junior Post-docs in Economics and Management on the 17/18 December 2020 in Munich, Germany.
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Finally, Stefano and me managed to get a working paper version out! For details, look on the research page or directly at SSRN.