Luisa Gagliardi   

I am Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Department of Management and Technology and research affiliate at ICRIOS and GREEN Bocconi

My research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, examining how geography and individuals’ backgrounds shape the choices that drive novel ideas, career choices, venture creation, and diffusion. I study how location characteristics and accumulated experience, rooted in family and socioeconomic conditions, influence decision-making by individuals and organizations, and how these choices relate to organizational performance and societal outcomes. I draw on large-scale microdata and spatial information, using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs to measure environments, choices, and outcomes.  

My work has been featured in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Economic Geography and Research Policy, among others. I serve on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science.

I am also Reps-at-Large for the Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (SMS).