- PhD Candidate in Strategy at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Academic advisor: Ajay Agrawal - Fall 2009 - Spring 2010: visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard (IQSS)
- July 2006 Master of Science (summa cum laude) in Economics and Management of International Markets and New Technologies, Bocconi University (Milan)
- Fall 2005 – Exchange student at Stockholm School of Economics. Ranked first in the Bocconi’s MSc exchange students selection.
- July 2004 Bachelor of Economics (summa cum laude) of international markets and new technologies, Bocconi University (Milan).
Publications
- Stefano Breschi and Christian Catalini "Tracing the linkages between science and technology: An exploratory analysis of the research networks among scientists and inventors" (Research Policy, 2010 - Vol 39 - Issue 1, pp. 14-26)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.11.004
Working Papers
- "The Geography of Crowdfunding", NBER Working Paper No. 16820 (http://www.nber.org/papers/w16820) with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb (February, 2011)
- "Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Formal Standards", with Timothy Simcoe (June, 2009)
- "Authors-inventors: life on the boundary between science and technology" with Stefano Breschi (February, 2009)
Research projects
- Since June 2009: "Disagreements, Employee Spinoffs, and Solipsism", with Peter Thompson (FIU) and Jing Chen (FIU).
- Since April 2008: "Markets Making Music", with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb.
- Since March 2008: Standard Setting Organizations - patents and disclosures, with Timothy Simcoe (Boston University).
- January 2006 to August 2007: CESPRI Bocconi (Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization): European Project “Highly Cited Patent and scientific articles"
Presentations
- "The Geography of Crowdfunding" - MIT Open Innovation Conference 2010. Cambridge, MA
- "Tracing the linkages between science and technology: An exploratory analysis of the research networks among scientists and inventors" - 25th DRUID Celebration Conference 2008 on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, CBS Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- "EPO Patents as a source of relational data: exploring the link between science and technology using references to non-patent literature (NPL)" - European Patent Academy 2006, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Ad hoc Reviewer
- Management Science
- Research Policy
Awards
- NET Institute Summer Grant 2010, ”The Geography of Crowdfunding” with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb
- GSEF - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management Award, 2008
- Doctoral Fellowship, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, 2007 to present
- 3M Canada Incorporated Scholarship, 3M Canada Inc., 2007
PhD Candidate in Strategy at the Rotman School of Management and technology enthusiast, I wrote my undergraduate degree thesis on the economics of open source development and my MSc final dissertation on "The link between science and technology: exploring the network of inventors and scientific authors in the semiconductor industry". After working at KITES-CESPRI Bocconi on the European research project “Highly cited patent”, I've started my PhD in Strategic Management at Rotman. Current projects include "Markets Making Music", with Ajay Agrawal; "Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Formal Standards", with Timothy Simcoe; "Authors-inventors: life on the boundary between science and technology", with Stefano Breschi. 
