Team

Erica Santini (Ph.D. in Economics, University of Florence, 2016) is an Associate Professor of Management at the “Department of Economics and Management and The School of Innovation  of the University of Trento. She is the Principal Investigator of the PLOTTI PNRR. Her research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, servitization strategies, product- service innovation and digitalization of manufacturing. 

Diletta Pegoraro (Ph.D. in Management, University of Birmingham, 2021) is Assistant Professor of International Business at Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on the interplay between international business and economic geography, exploring how location factors impact company decisions. She currently leads the POLIMI unit of PLOTTI PNRR.

Lorena Maria D’Agostino (Ph.D. in Economics, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy, 2011) is Assistant Professor of Management at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is Investigator of the PLOTTI PNRR. Her research focuses on green innovation, trademarks, and crowdfunding.

Claudia Ghisetti (Ph.D. in European Law and Economics, University of Bologna, Italy, 2014) is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is Investigator of the PLOTTI PNRR. Her research focuses on sustainability, environmental economics and economics of innovation.

Camilla Civardi (Ph.D. in Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden, 2023) is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is employed as part of the PLOTTI PNRR project. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, start-up financing, sustainability and innovation.

Lucia Piscitello (Ph.D in Management Engineering) is Full Professor of International Business at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests cover the economics and management of MNEs, the international aspects of technological change, the geography of innovation. She is a Fellow, Past President, and Chair of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). 

Ilaria Renna ( PhD  in Mechanics, Acoustics, Electronics and Robotics, “University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France” and PhD in Robotics, Neuroscience and Nanotechnology, “University of Genova, Italy”) has been Associate Professor at ISEP (Paris Institute of digital technology from 2017 to 2023) and recently joined the Department of Economics and Management (University of Trento) as Researcher working on the Data Analysis for the PNRR-PLOTTI project. Her scientific interests are in the fields of Human-Machine Interaction, IA, Computer Science Education and Medical Data Processing.

Jacopo Staiano ( PhD in Information Engineering and Computer Science) is a Senior Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Department of Economics & Management, University of Trento (Italy). His works range from modeling the behavior of humans when interacting with technology to modeling behavioral dynamics in small groups; from understanding the relationship between personality and social network structure as derived from Call Detail Records, to the analysis of virality dynamics in online social networking sites. His latest works focus on Natural Language Generation.