About the Authors

Giacomo Marzi is Senior Assistant Professor (Tenured) of Management at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy). Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Enterprise at the University of Lincoln (UK), Department of Management, where he now holds a Visiting Fellow position. He received a PhD in Management from the University of Pisa, School of Economics and Management, Italy. His primary research fields are Innovation Management, New Product Development, and Bibliometrics. 

Marco Balzano is a Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, Management, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Trieste (Italy) and a PhD Candidate of Management attending a Double PhD Program between the Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and KTO Research, SKEMA Business School (France). His main research interests deal with the study of chance, business strategy, and innovation management.

Davide Marchiori currently holds the position of "Tecnologo –Technologist" at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy), leveraging his expertise in behavioural economics research and holding a PhD in Economics and Management. He has more than fifteen years of experience in experimental, computational, and statistical research methodologies. His research, distinguished by a markedly multidisciplinary approach, has been published in prestigious international academic journals.