2025 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference 26-27 June 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella, PhD Economics, Stanford University, is Professor of Corporate Management in the Department of Management & Technology of Bocconi University, Milan. He has worked on different topics in the economics and management of firm strategies and innovation. He is Department Editor of Business Strategy of Management Science, a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), London. In 2021 he was awarded a European Research Council grant on “A Scientific Approach to Innovation Management,” and is currently co-director of the ION Management Science Lab at SDA Bocconi. His website is
http://faculty.unibocconi.eu/alfonsogambardella/
Gustavo Manso
Gustavo Manso is the Marie-France and Rene Kern Chancellor's Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research, which focuses on incentives for innovation, has been published extensively in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science, and has received numerous awards including the INFORMS TIMES Best Paper Award in 2018, the Swiss Finance Institute's Outstanding Paper Award in 2010, the Review of Financial Studies Young Researcher Award in 2009, and the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance in 2006. Manso has served as Department Editor of Management Science and is a co-founder of the Finance Theory Group (FTG).