The research line investigates how entrepreneurship is evolving and reshaping its locus and purpose, building on the traditional role new ventures, startups, and small medium enterprises (SMEs) play as an engine of economic development and job creation, to embrace broader and multidimensional impacts related to sustainability, diversity, and inclusion.

The research specifically targets:

• entrepreneurial finance (venture capital, business angels, crowdfunding, IPOs and other alternative financing channels);
• entrepreneurial strategies and policies to design, innovate and experimentally validate original business models, and later support growth and scaling;
• incumbent-startup strategic collaborations;
• technological and digital entrepreneurship;
• social entrepreneurship;
• entrepreneurial ecosystem dynamics;
• entrepreneurial teams;
• behavioural and psychological aspect of entrepreneurship;
• innovation, growth and financing of family firms.