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1 Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference “Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations” Bergamo, Italy, 24-26 June 2015 Sponsors: Eu-SPRI Forum (http://www.euspri-forum.eu), Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Organizing Committee: Luca Grilli (Politecnico di Milano), Michele Meoli (Università di Bergamo), Giuseppe Scellato (Politecnico di Torino), Silvio Vismara (Università di Bergamo). Organizing Support: Davide Donina (Università di Pavia e Università di Bergamo). Conference venue: Università degli Studi di Bergamo, via Salvecchio, 19, Bergamo (Upper Town). For more information see also: http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=ccse_euspri2015 Contact: [email protected]

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Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference

“Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations”

Bergamo, Italy, 24-26 June 2015

Sponsors: Eu-SPRI Forum (http://www.euspri-forum.eu), Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino,

Università degli Studi di Bergamo.

Organizing Committee: Luca Grilli (Politecnico di Milano), Michele Meoli (Università di Bergamo),

Giuseppe Scellato (Politecnico di Torino), Silvio Vismara (Università di Bergamo).

Organizing Support: Davide Donina (Università di Pavia e Università di Bergamo).

Conference venue: Università degli Studi di Bergamo, via Salvecchio, 19, Bergamo (Upper Town).

For more information see also: http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=ccse_euspri2015

Contact: [email protected]

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Eu-SPRI ECC Early Career Researcher Conference

“Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations”

Bergamo, Italy, 24-26 June 2015

Table of Contents

Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference and Organizing institutions 3

Program Overview 5

Session details 6

Session format and Wi-fi Access 8

Directions & Map 9

How to get to Bergamo 10

Getting around 12

Accommodation 13

Good to know 14

Keynote speakers 15

Participants in the Round Table: “Sowing the Seeds of the Future” 16

Conference dinner 17

List of participants 18

Contacts 20

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Eu-SPRI ECC (Early Career Researcher) Conference

“Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations”

Bergamo, Italy, 24-26 June 2015

Science, technology and innovation (STI) are crucial elements of economic development and growth. They undoubtedly had a key role in the past, but their significance is going to dramatically increase in the next future. As a matter of fact, these days, from different ankles and perspectives, public opinion points to the discovery and development of new technologies as “the main solution” to many of the challenges that the whole world faces ahead. All these decisions, strategies and investments, might be supported by research and innovation policies, as well as a comprehensive approach in financing STI activities, that have to be put in place in economic and institutional contexts, which are fairly more complex than what occurred to be in the past. The Early Career Research Conference “Sowing the seeds of future: The financing of tomorrow innovations” intends to increase our understanding on the topic of “financing STI activities”, with special emphasis on the most suitable policy tools and their most appropriate governance mechanisms to alleviate in the future the existing financing barriers towards STI activities. In particular we aim at collecting both empirical and theoretical contributions that provide new insights on the below reported topics, building on the available evidence on the interrelationships between different public and private stakeholders interacting in the complex STI landscape. Papers that embrace different approaches/levels of analysis and adopt an international perspective are especially welcomed. Here follows a potential list of streams, by way of example:

- Policies for the financing of breakthrough innovations.

- Policies for achieving sustainable innovations in ‘grand social challenges’ in the areas of health, energy

and environmental issues.

- Design and governance of policy schemes for easing financing of STI activities, including public-

private collaboration arrangements in the equity and credit market.

- Interdependencies between governments’ research policies and other public policies for the financing

of STI activities.

- Financial markets, bank regulation and the provision of finance for R&D intensive firms.

- Financial markets conditions and incentives for entrepreneurship.

- Raising external capital for high-tech entrepreneurship: policy issues.

- Crowdfunding: opportunities, challenges and critical factors.

- Crowdfunding, venture capital and bank debt: complements or substitutes?

- Venture capital, innovation and high-tech start-ups performance.

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- Innovation at a global scale: governance mechanisms across different actors.

- Innovative policy tools to support the provision of finance for innovative firms and high-tech start-

ups.

- Best practices in the management and governance of public policies for the financing of high-tech

entrepreneurship and innovative firms.

- Policies for the financial support of technology transfer.

- University-Venture capital and the financing of academic start-ups.

- Financial and growth strategies of innovative firms and high-tech start-ups.

- Initial public offerings and Mergers & Acquisitions of innovative and high-tech entrepreneurial firms.

- The effects of the financial crisis on STI activities.

- Innovative policy tools to finance Science and Technology.

- Macro perspectives on financial markets, innovation, high-tech entrepreneurship and economic

growth.

University of Bergamo

The University of Bergamo (http://www.unibg.it/) is an Italian State University with about 16,000 students (undergraduates and graduates), and more than 300 PhD students. The number of students is increasing each year, with a 7% growth rate per year between 2001 and 2011. A staff of 656 members (331 professors & researchers, 95 assisting academic staff, 230 administrative and technical staff) provides a dynamic scientific and teaching environment open to innovations. The 7 Departments and the Research centers of the University of Bergamo are strictly intertwined in the town life. They are grouped in three campuses located in three different areas:

Campus of Economics and Law: in the City of Bergamo, at walking distance from the train station

Campus of Humanities: in the Mediaeval Upper town Campus of Engineering: in Dalmine, the industrial outskirts of Bergamo, inside the science park

"Kilometro Rosso"

EuSPRI

The “European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation” (Eu-SPRI Forum) aims to strengthen the vibrant but dispersed interdisciplinary community of researchers focusing on interdisciplinary dimensions related to policy and governance in the field of knowledge creation and innovation. The Eu-SPRI Forum was founded in Paris in June 2010 and has presently 15 member institutions (http://www.euspri-forum.eu/about_us/). Policies for research and innovation are a centrepiece of the current global ‘knowledge and innovation society’. However, the design and implementation of such policies is not a simple and straightforward business. Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (SPRI) is a growing research field since the 1960s, evolving at the encounter of economics, political science, sociology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), business administration, geography and history. The Eu-SPRI Forum collaborates with non-European expert networks in the field of science, research, technology and innovation policy studies, such as the “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Network of the Americas (STIPA)”.

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Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference

“Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations”

Bergamo, Italy, 24-26 June 2015

Programme Overview Rectorate, via Salvecchio 19, Bergamo (Upper Town)

Wednesday 24th June 2015

13:30-14:00 Registration

14:00-16:00 Welcome and Paper session 1: Grand Social Challenges

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Paper Session 2: The Role of Higher Education Institutions

Thursday 25th June 2015

09:30-10:30 Keynote speech 1: Paula Stephan (Georgia State University and NBER) “The funding of science: Trends, concerns, and open issues”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Paper Session 3: Designing Policies for Innovation

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Paper Session 4: Financial Markets

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Round Table: “Sowing the Seeds of the Future”

19:30-23.00 Conference dinner

Friday 26th June 2015

09:30-10:30 Keynote speech 2: Fabio Bertoni (EMLYON Business School) “Intermediation and Disintermediation in Entrepreneurial Finance”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Paper Session 5: Innovative Finance

13:00-14:00 Farewell lunch

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Session details

Paper Session 1: Grand Social Challenges

Chair: Giuseppe Scellato (Politecnico di Torino)

Bianca Cavicchi (University of Oslo), Bioenergy system's dynamics. How to secure sustainability outcomes?

Discussant: Alessandra Colombelli (Politecnico di Torino)

Alessandra Colombelli (Politecnico di Torino), Eco-innovations and firms' market value: a micro-econometric

analysis of European data.

Discussant: David Marek (Charles University in Prague)

David Marek (Charles University in Prague), The challenge of breaking the academia-business firewall in

Czechia: comparing role of differentiated knowledge bases in collaborative R&D projects

Discussant: Bianca Cavicchi (University of Oslo)

Paper Session 2: The Role of Higher Education Institutions

Chair: Manuel Heitor (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)

Davide Donina (Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia), How does University Internationalization

Contribute to the Student Entrepreneurship?

Discussant: Laura Toschi (Università di Bologna)

Laura Toschi (Università di Bologna), The University as a Venture Capitalist? Determinants and Consequences

of University Seed funds and Proof-of-Concept Programs in Europe

Discussant: Flavio Porta (Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia)

Flavio Porta (Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia), To MOOC or not to MOOC: decision-making

strategies in contemporary universities

Discussant: Manuel Heitor (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)

Paper Session 3: Designing Policies for Innovation

Chair: Paula Stephan (Georgia State University and NBER)

Luca Grilli (Politecnico di Milano), “Turn the light on”: the certification effect of selective subsidies, founders’

human capital, and new technology-based firms’ access to R&D alliances

Discussant: Mercedes Terruel Carrizosa (CREIP, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)

Mercedes Terruel Carrizosa (CREIP, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona), Young firms and R&D

subsidies in Catalonia

Discussant: Emilio Raiteri (Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Emilio Raiteri (Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), More of the same or something different?

Technological originality and novelty in public procurement-related patents

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Discussant: José Manuel Leceta (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

José Manuel Leceta (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Overcoming barriers to high-growth firms in

Europe: the start up to scale up approach of EIT-ICT Labs

Discussant: Davide Hahn (Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia)

Paper Session 4: Financial Markets

Chair: Silvio Vismara (Università di Bergamo)

Francesca Tenca (Politecnico di Milano), A look at how business angels work: decision criteria in investment

evaluation

Discussant: Tuomo Heinonen (University of Tampere)

Tuomo Heinonen (University of Tampere), Regenerative medicine cell therapy financial market: how to finance

potential innovations

Discussant: Anita Quas (EMLYON Business School)

Anita Quas (EMLYON Business School), Certification of public-sector lending of high-growth and high-technology

SMEs towards banks

Discussant: Maria Luisa Mancusi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università Bocconi),

Maria Luisa Mancusi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università Bocconi), Innovation and

export in SMEs: the role of concentrated bank borrowing

Discussant: Francesca Tenca (Politecnico di Milano)

Paper Session 5: Innovative Finance

Chair: Michele Meoli (Università di Bergamo)

Elisa Ughetto (Politecnico di Torino), Dumping or taking on entrepreneurial ventures: the dynamics of switching

between governmental and independent venture capitalists

Discussant: Andrea Signori (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Andrea Signori (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Getting big fast: IPOs and M&As of Young

Innovative Companies

Discussant: Fabio Bertoni (EMLYON Business School)

Francesca Tenca (Politecnico di Milano), Crowdfunding: the impact of entrepreneurial passion on the acquisition

of financial resources

Discussant: Mattia Cattaneo (Università di Bergamo)

Mattia Cattaneo (Università di Bergamo), Financing university through bonds: the financial value of reputation

Discussant: Elisa Ughetto (Politecnico di Torino)

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Session format

Each paper has been assigned a discussant. We aim to promote reflection and discussion among the

audience and thus make the conference a more valuable experience for both presenters and audience.

Each paper presentation will be allocated 30 minutes of time:

15 minutes for the presentation;

10 min minutes for the discussant comments;

5 minutes for open comments.

Wi-fi access

Eduroam

Eduroam wi-fi is available in the venue for all the participants.

Unibgfreenet

Further username and password for the access to the wi-fi network are available on request.

When you connect to the wi-fi network, please log to “uniwifinetwork” and refer to the username and

passwords that will be provided by the organization staff.

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Directions & Map

The venue

The Eu-SPRI Conference ‘Sowing the seeds of the future: The financing of tomorrow’s innovations’ will take place at the University of Bergamo at the following addresses:

Via Salvecchio 19, 24100 Città Alta, Bergamo, Italy, Room 1

See this map for the location of the venue.

(https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zZp0dYwRMLus.kDXQoIXpWjeY)

Getting to the venue

From Bergamo Train Station take local bus n°1 towards Colle Aperto and get off at stop #40, viale delle Mura, Seminario or at Colle Aperto (end of bus line) - journey takes about 10 minutes and tickets cost 1.25 euro.

The same bus can be taken from the airport but the fare is then 2.10 euro.

Tickets are sold at Turismo Bergamo office and at the dispensers (Airport) or at the newspaper kiosks (train station).

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How to get to Bergamo

Arriving by plane

Bergamo is easily accessible with the city being connected to three international airports: Bergamo Orio al Serio, Milano Malpensa and Milano Linate

Bergamo Orio al Serio

Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, Italy

Tel: +39 035 32 63 23

Website: www.orioaeroporto.it

The international Airport of Orio al Serio is just 5 km from Bergamo and 45 km from Milan. It is connected to many Italian and European destinations, and has a large number of low-cost airlines. The airport bus service runs daily to and from the airport every 30 minutes and the journey to Bergamo takes about 20 minutes.

From the airport Orio al Serio to the city of Bergamo:

The local bus no. 1 operates from Orio al Serio airport to Bergamo train station and Upper Town (it departs every 20 minutes and the journey takes 15 minutes. Tickets cost 2.10 €).

The airport shuttle service connects the airport and Milan city in its three important locations: Central Station, Rho Fair and Malpensa Airport. For further information please consult Orio low cost shuttle website www.orioshuttle.com/_eng

Taxis from the airport to Bergamo cost approximately between 20 euro and 25 euro. For further information call the Azienda Trasporti Bergamo www.atb.bergamo.it/ENG/homepage.aspx . Tel: +39 035 23 60 26.

Milano Malpensa

Ferno Varese, 21010, Milan, Italy

Tel: +39 02 23 23 23

Website: www.milanomalpensa-airport.com

Malpensa airport is the largest of the three airports and is located in the province of Varese approximately 30 km north west of the city of Milan. Milano Malpensa is Milan’s international airport.

From the airport Milano Malpensa to the city of Bergamo:

The Malpensa shuttle coach buses leave every 20 minutes from Malpensa Airport to Milan central train station (Stazione di Milano Centrale). From Milano railway station to Bergamo, trains leave at ten minutes after every hour. The last train leaves at 22.10. For further information, please consult the Malpensa shuttle website www.malpensashuttle.it/e-index2.php

Please find below the complete list of taxi services available at Milano Malpensa. Taxis are available at arrivals (ground floor), exit gate 6 at terminal 1, exit gate 4 at terminal 2.

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Radio Taxi La Martesana, Tel: +39 02 21 81

Radio Taxi Freccia, Tel: +39 02 40 00

Taxi 8585 Autoradiotassi, Tel: +39 02 85 85

Milano Linate

Viale Enrico Forlanini, 20090 Segrate Milan, Italy

Tel: +39 02 23 23 23

Website: www.milanolinate-airport.com

Milano Linate Airport has a wide range of domestic and short and medium range international flights. There are several train and bus connections to Bergamo from the airport, including a shuttle bus to Milan Malpensa Airport. The shuttle bus between the two airports takes approximately 30 minutes so make sure you leave plenty of time if you are organising connecting flights.

From the airport Milano Linate to the city of Bergamo:

For bus services operating from Milan Linate Airport to destinations including Milan and Malpensa, please consult the website www.milanairportsguide.com/linate-airport-buses.htm

Please see below for a complete list of taxi services available at Milano Linate Airport. Taxis are available at arrivals (ground floor), exit gate 5.

Radio Taxi 6969, Tel: +39 02 69 69

Arrow Radio Taxi, Tel: +39 02 40 00

Blue Taxi, Tel: +39 02 40 40

Arriving by train

From Milan Railway Station (Stazione di Milano Centrale) to Bergamo there are trains leaving 10 minutes after every hour. The last train leaves at 22.10. To find out more, please visit the website: www.trenitalia.com

Driving cars in the upper town

If you intend to reach the venue by car, pay attention to the “ZTL” electronic signs as they indicate the areas of the Upper town where cars are not allowed. Furthermore, parking your car will cost you about 1.6 euro/hour to be paid by cash.

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Getting around

The city of Bergamo

Bergamo is located in Lombardia, a region in Northern Italy with more than 10 millions inhabitants and one of the regions with the highest GDP pro capita in Europe. With a history older than the foundation of Rome, Bergamo grew as a key town in Mediaeval times and is now a bridge between Western and Eastern Europe: its airport is the Southern Europe hub for Ryanair and other low cost airlines, turning over 9 million passengers in 2012.

General information on transport

Bergamo is divided into two parts: the Città alta (upper town), the old city on the hills surrounded by ancient walls where the forum venue is located and the Città bassa (lower town) in the valley underneath where the hotels and main transport stations and airports are located. The city is quite small, and many of the sights can be seen on foot. However, walking from the città bassa up to the città alta can be quite tiring because of the steep and winding streets, but there is a funicular that links the two parts of the city. Tickets can be purchased on the funicular and are valid for 75 minutes. They can be used to travel on the network, including the funicular to San Vigilio.

The Bergamo Card includes travel on the airport bus and unlimited travel on ATB buses, trams and funicular railways, free entry to some of the city’s museums, discounts on entry to events and temporary exhibitions as well as discounts on food and shopping. There are three types of card available: validity 24h at 10 €; 48h at 15 € and 72h at 20 €.

ATB (Bergamo’s public transport company) runs the urban bus services and funicular railway between lower and upper Bergamo and between upper Bergamo and San Vigilio. The no. 1 bus starts at the railway station and travels to upper Bergamo. The funicular railway can also be used to reach upper Bergamo. The journey only takes five minutes.

Visitors wishing to reach the top of San Viglio hill can use the panoramic funicular which begins near San Alessandro gate (just outside colle Aperto).

ATB Point (Info point on local buses)

Largo Porta nuova

Tel: +39 035 23 60 26

Website: www.atb.bergamo.it

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Accommodation

Albergo Il Sole

Via Colleoni 1, Città Alta, Bergamo Tel: +39 035 218238. Fax: +39 035 240011

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.albergoristoranteilsole.it/

Map of the location: http://www.albergoristoranteilsole.it/contatti

From Bergamo Train Station take local bus n°1 towards Colle Aperto and get off at stop #40, viale delle Mura, Seminario (journey takes 10 minutes and tickets cost 1.25 euro).

The same bus can be taken from the airport but the fare is then 2.10 euro.

Tickets are sold at Turismo Bergamo office and at the dispensers (Airport) or at the newspaper kiosks (train station).

See this map for the location of the hotels.

(https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zZp0dYwRMLus.kDXQoIXpWjeY)

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Good to know

English is the official language of the forum. No simultaneous translation will be provided.

Time

The local time in Bergamo is Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1.

Weather

Temperatures usually range from 20°C to 30°C during the day in June in Bergamo. To find out more information, please see the weather forecast online: www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Bergamo/forecasts/latest.

Telephone instructions

To call Italy you have to dial 00 + 39 + city area code + number you wish to call. Please note that you must keep the “0” between the country and the city area code when dialling a number. For example: +39 035 25 13 83.

Emergencies 118

Police 112

Electricity voltage

The electrical current in most of Italy is 220 volts, 50 cycles alternating current (AC). In Italy, you need continental-type plugs which have two round prongs. If you bring 110-volt devices, you will need a voltage converter, unless your appliance is designed to also work with 220 volts electricity (dual voltage). Voltage converters could be difficult to find in Italy, so it is advisable to buy one before you travel.

Post office

13, Piazza Mercato del Fieno, 24129, Bergamo Website: www.posteitaliane.post

Pharmacy

Farmacia Conca Verde, 24, Via Mattioli, 24129, Bergamo Tel: +39 035 25 13 83

There are also many pharmacies in the city centre (lower city)

Tourist services

I.A.T. Tourist Office Lower Bergamo

Piazzale Marconi (near the station) Tel. +39 035 21 02 04

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.comune.bergamo.it (only in Italian)

I.A.T. Tourist Office Upper Bergamo

Via gombito, 13 (gombito tower)

Tel: +39 035 24 22 26

Email: [email protected]

Website: : www.comune.bergamo.it (only in Italian)

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Keynote speakers

Paula Stephan is professor of economics, Georgia State University and a research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors, Science. Science Careers named Stephan their first “Person of the Year” in December of 2012 “honoring an individual who, during the past 12 months, has made an especially significant and sustained contribution to the welfare of early-career scientists”. Stephan has published numerous articles in such journals as The American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Literature, Management Science, Nature, Organization Science, and Science. Her book ‘How Economics Shapes Science’ was published by Harvard University Press, 2012. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Stephan recently served on the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce and the Committee to Review the State of the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. She is a member of European Research Council’s Expert Group on Key Performance Indicators. She served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, National Institutes of Health 2005-2009 and served on the Advisory Committee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economics Program, National Science Foundation, 2001-2008. She has held visiting positions at KU Leuven, Harvard University, International Center for Economic Research (Torino, Italy), the Wizzenschaf Zentrum fur Social Forchung, Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich. Fabio Bertoni, Professor of Corporate Finance at EMLYON Business School, Ecully, France. Fabio Bertoni holds a PhD in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The research activity of Fabio Bertoni is mostly focused on the relationship between financing and firm performance. He has devoted particular attention to venture capital and firm’s growth, patenting and investments. Recently he has also studied sovereign wealth fund investments. During his career, he made visiting period at Copenhagen Business School - Center for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen, Denmark; Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Department of Accounting and Finance, Madrid, Spain; Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) - Department of International Finance and Financial Management, Mannheim, Germany; and University of Oxford - Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK.

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Participants in the Round Table: “Sowing the Seeds of the Future”

Chair: Luca Grilli (Politecnico di Milano) Manuel Heitor is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, IST, the engineering school of the University of Lisbon and director of IST’s “Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research”. He pursued an academic career at IST, in Lisbon, where he served as Deputy-President for the period 1993-1998. From March 2005 to June 2011 he served as Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education in the Government of Portugal. Most recently, in the 2011-12 academic year he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. He earned a PhD at Imperial College, London, in 1985 in combustion research and did post-doctoral training at the University of California San Diego. Stefano Paleari is Full Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bergamo since February 2001, and was elected Rector of the University of Bergamo since October 2009. He is the President of the CISAlpino Institute for Comparative Studies in Europe (CCSE), a joint research centre of University of Bergamo and University of Augsburg (Germany). He was Secretary General of the CRUI (the Italian Council of the Rectors of Italian Universities) from April 2011 to September 2013 and since September 2013 is the President of the CRUI. Since April 2013, he was elected Board Member of the EUA (European University Association). Moreover, he is Scientific Director of the ICCSAI (International Center for Competitiveness Studies in the Aviation Industry) since March 2006; External examiner in the MSc in Air Transport Management at the Department of Air Transport of the Cranfield University (UK) since January 2009; Airneth Academic Fellow and member of the Airneth Scientific Board, an international group of the most representative academic researchers in Air Transportation, since June 2009. Livio Scalvini is Head of Corporate Innovation, Chief Innovation Area, Intesa Sanpaolo. His main goals are focused in promoting innovation and competitiveness of the Italian and regional ecosystem with an holistic approach through building international acceleration platforms for high tech start-ups, equity investing and open innovation solutions for mature companies. Previously Livio Scalvini worked as Head of Innovation and Head of Marketing in Corporate & Investment Banking in Intesa Sanpaolo. He covered several managerial positions in international financial Institutions in Europe. He has served as a Director in the Board of companies and in Steering Committees of Masters and Associations. He has been Managing Director of Research and Entrepreneurship Foundation. Livio Scalvini holds a degree in Economics and a Master of Science in Macroeconomics and International Finance. He published papers and books in Strategic Planning and in Dynamics of financial markets. Serial entrepreneur (2x), investor and advisor in start-ups, he served in NGOs for microfinance programs in Central America and West Africa.

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Conference dinner

Thursday 25 June (19.30-23.00)

Dinner at “Da Franco” restaurant

via Colleoni, 8

Bergamo (Città alta - Upper town)

Tel.: +39 035238565

Website: www.dafrancobergamo.it

Please advise us of any dietary requirements and any allergies when you register for the conference

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List of participants

Name Surname E-mail Affiliation Country

Fabio Bertoni [email protected] EMLYON Business School France

Mattia Cattaneo [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Bianca Cavicchi [email protected] University of Oslo Norway

Elena Cefis [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Alice Civera [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Alessandra Colombelli [email protected] Politecnico di Torino Italy

Gianpietro Elvio Cossali [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Davide Donina [email protected] Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia Italy

Chiara Franzoni [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Italy

Claudia Ghisetti [email protected] Università di Ferrara Italy

Luca Grilli [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Italy

Davide Hahn [email protected] Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia Italy

Tuomo Heinonen [email protected] University of Tampere, School of Management Finland

Manuel Heitor [email protected] Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon) Portugal

Jose Manuel Leceta [email protected] Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Spain

Ye Liu [email protected] Zhejiang University China

Joseph Macko [email protected] Indiana University United States

Maria Luisa Mancusi [email protected] Università Cattolica and Università Bocconi (Milano) Italy

David Marek [email protected] Charles University in Prague Czech Republic

Michele Meoli [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Tommaso Minola [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Boris Mrkajic [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Italy

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Stefano Paleari [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

Flavio Porta [email protected] Università di Bergamo and Università di Pavia Italy

Anita Quas [email protected] EMLYON Business School France

Francesco Quatraro [email protected] Università di Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto Italy

Emilio Raiteri [email protected] Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland

Michele Ronchi Stefanati [email protected] University College Cork Ireland

Livio Scalvini [email protected] Intesa Sanpaolo Italy

Giuseppe Scellato [email protected] Politecnico di Torino Italy

Andrea Signori [email protected] Università Cattolica (Milano) Italy

Paula Stephan [email protected] Georgia State University United States

Francesca Tenca [email protected] Politecnico di Milano Italy

Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa [email protected] CREIP, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona Spain

Laura Toschi [email protected] Università di Bologna Italy

Elisa Ughetto [email protected] Politecnico di Torino Italy

Silvio Vismara [email protected] Università di Bergamo Italy

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Contacts

For any inquiries please contact:

General info:

email: [email protected]

Programme:

Michele Meoli email: [email protected] Mobile: +39 347 1539868

Organization, Booking, and Hotel:

Davide Donina email: [email protected] Mobile: +39 349 6903280