Enrico Santarelli , earned a Laurea in Political Sciences from the University of Macerata (Italy) before completing his graduate studies at the University of Sussex. Under the supervision of Professor G.N. von Tunzelmann, he obtained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies with a thesis titled “Finance and Technological Change”. In 1987, he became an Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Teramo (Italy). He was appointed as a Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Bologna in 2000, having previously served as an Associate Professor since 1992. From 2003 to 2009, Santarelli held the position of Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group) in Jena (Germany). In 2010, he served as a Senior scientist (GH40) at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) of the European Commission in Seville. Throughout his career, he has been a Visiting Professor at various universities worldwide, including Berkeley, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Saarland, Stanford, and Sussex. Additionally, he has provided consultancy services to the European Commission, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), and numerous private organizations and companies. For the period spanning 2021-22 to 2023-24, he held the position of Director of the Second Cycle Degree in Law and Economics (CLAMED-ED/CLAMED-LEIF) at the University of Bologna. He serves as the Editor of Small Business Economics, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Eurasian Business Review. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the Board of Review of the Journal of Business Venturing. Additionally, he served in the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) from 2004 to 2010. His primary research focus lies in the economic analysis of entrepreneurship, firm growth, and innovation. He is also active in regional economics, labor economics, and law & economics. His work has been published in various journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, including Research Policy, Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Small Business Journal, Applied Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Economics of Transition, Industry and Innovation, Review of Industrial Organization, Scientometrics, History of Political Economy, History of Economic Ideas, Empirical Economics, Growth and Change, Annals of Regional Science, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, and BMC Health Policy.