PhD (1994) in Economics at the University of Ancona and Master of Science (1989) in Science, Technology and Industrialization in Brighton, University of Sussex, at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), he was researcher at the Centre for the Study on entrepreneurship F. Stork, Bocconi University, Milan (1992-94) and researcher at the Centre for Research on technology in developing countries “Ispa north/south”, Milan (1989-90).
His main research activity concerns the analysis of changes in the labor market and the problems of knowledge and learning, with particular attention to the evolution of local economic systems. He is also interested deepening theoretical institutionalist approach to economic problems.