Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Bologna and Honorary Professor at Cass Business School, City University London and Visiting Fellow of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University . Simone Ferriani received his PhD from the Management Department of the University of Bologna. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School, at the Stern School of Business and at the Sociology Department of the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining the PhD he was a Marie Curie Fellow at Cass Business School, City University London and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Technology Management of the University of Cambridge. He is also an AIM Fellow and a lifetime member of Clare-Hall College in Cambridge. Ferriani’s current research employs a mix of qualitative techniques and large datasets to study the social sources of creativity. Ferriani is also working at the intersection of historical methods, lab experiments and network analysis to study how social valuation is shaped by the structure of evaluating audiences. His work has been published in various international journals and books, such us American Sociological Review, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, Academy of Management Journal. Simone Ferriani is the Founding Director of ReActor, the largest Italian training program designed to foster the entrepreneurial talent of young scientists with innovative venturing ideas rooted in their research findings.