Carmela Elita Schillaci

Dept. Economics and Business - Unict

Carmela Elita Schillaci is Full Professor of “Entrepreneurship” at the Economic & Business Department - University of Catania (Sicily).  She specialized at Bocconi University (Milan) and  at NYU /New York University-Snider Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She works as an “Experts of  Technological Transfer ” for the Italian  Ministry of Education, universities and research (MIUR)  and  as an expert for “ANVUR”-National Agency for Italian Universities Research Evaluation.

She is member member of the Board of Italian Management Academy Society (SIMA); member of the Board of “IBAN- Italian Business Angel Networks” (Italian partner of the “EBAN-European Business Angel Networks); member of the Scientific Committee of Vodafone Foundation Italy; member of the Scientific Committee of Unicredit Group and member of the Schientic Committee of “Salone CSR & Social Innovation”-Bocconi University-Milan. Since November 2018, she is President of the National Scientific Qualification Committee for Associate and Full professor in Italian Universities. 
          Main Academic and Institutional Experiences:
-Director of ILHM (Inovation Leadership and Health Management Advanced Center)-University of Catania;
- CEO of the Micro-Nano Systems Technology Cluster MIUR – Italian Ministry of University
- CEO  of the Academic  Incubator MED/Spin Unict;
- Member of the IBAN Board (Italian Business Angels Network);
- Member of the Scientific Committee of Vodafone Foundation Italy;
- Dean of the Business Faculty – University of Catania;
- Founder  of SVPF (Sicilian Venture Philanthropy Foundation for Startups Creation;
- Head of  the Technological Liason Office- University of Catania
- Expert inTechnological Transfer at the MISE-Italian Economic Ministry;
- Expert for ANVUR- National Agency for Italian Universities  Evaluation;
- Member of the the Italian Management Academy Society Board;
- Member of the Scientific Committee of Unicredit Group;
-Member of the Scientific Committee of “Salon CSR & Social Innovation”-Bocconi University
- Regional Expert for the Sicilian Technological Districts and for Tuscany Region;
- President of the Etna Hi-Tech  Consortium(33 firms). 
- Member of the Scientific Board of  the Technological Park of  Sicilia. 

Research Focus: Start ups and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem;  Technology Transfer Process, Health Management; Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) and Family Business, Social Innovation

Bibliography (last 5 years)

  • 2019. Nicotra M., Schillaci C., Romano M.  “Innovative Family Startups for Value Creation”, Sinergie, ISSN: 0393-5108.
  • 2018.,Nicotra M.; Corrente S.; Romano M.; Schillaci C.; Greco S., The Italian Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A comparison with G7 Countries using Stochastic Multiattribute Acceptability Analysis. pp.47-65. In Tendenze nuove negli studi Economico-aziendali. L’evoluzione dei rapporti azienda-società - ISBN:978-88-15-28057-
  • 2018, Schillaci CE, Corrente S., Greco S., Nicotra. M., Romano M.,  “Entrepreneurial Ecosystemsand Startups: an Empirical Investigation using SMAA and SMAA-S”. Journal of Technology Transfer. 2
  • 2018. Schillaci C.; Nicotra M.:” Knowledge Gatekeepers in Smart Cities: The Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore”. In Le rotte della sostenibilità, ISBN: 88-238-4608-0.
  • 2018, Schillaci C., In “Tendenze nuove negli studi Economico-aziendali. L’evoluzione dei rapporti azienda-società” (introduzione) - ISBN:978-88-15-28057-2
  • 2018. Schillaci C. Garraffo F.,  Nicotra M.,  Romano M.:"Habitual Entrepreneurship In The Family Business Context" in “The Entrepreneurship SIG at European Academy of Management: New Horizons with strong Traditions” Information Age Publishing 
  • 2017, Schillaci CE, Nicotra M, Romano M, Del Giudice M. "The Causal Relation Between Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Productive Entrepreneurship", Journal of Technology Transfer, DOI: 10.1007/S10961-017-9628-2.
  • 2017, Schillaci C.E..; Romano M.; Nicotra M.; Tomarchio O., Social entrepreneurs as change catalysts: evidences from case studies, International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting (IJMFA),vol.9,n. 2,  ISSN: doi: 10.1504/IJMFA.2017.084777.
  • 2016, Schillaci CE, Del Giudice M., Nicotra M., Romano M.,. Entrepreneurial Performance of Principal Investigators and Country Culture: Relations and Influences. The Journal of TechnologyTransfer,vol.42,n.2,ISSN:0892-9912,doi:10.1007/s10961-016 9499.
  • 2016, Schillaci C.E., La nuova impresa: tra caos, cambiamento e coesione, in AA.VV. L’impresa di domain. EGEA, Milan. ISBN: 887549059636. 
  • 2016, Romano M., Schillaci C.E., Nicotra M., Technology Based Nascent Entrepreneurship and Territorial Social Capital: Empirical Evidence from Italy, in Cunningham J. &  O'Kane C., Nascent Technology Based Entrepreneurship, London Palgrave. ISBN: 978-1-137-59593-5.
  • 2016, Romano M., Schillaci C.E., Nicotra M., Principal Investigators in Entrepreneurial Universities: a Research Framework. In: Cunningham J., Guerrero M., Urbano D. Entrepreneurial Universities: Technology and Knowledge Transfer. p. 167-186, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN: 978-981-4733-30 4.
  • 2016, Del Giudice M., Nicotra M., Romano M., Schillaci C.E, "Entrepreneurial Performance of Principal Investigators and Country Culture: Relations and Influences", Journal of Technology Transfer, DOI: 10.1007/s10961-016-9499.
  • 2016, Schillaci C.E., Romano M., “Straight Up-Percorsi  strategici per nuove imprese”McGraw-Hill Education, Milan, ISBN: 9788838675140.
  • 2015, Schillaci C, Innovazione sociale, contenimento della spesa e nuovi processi organizzativi nel comune di Catania, in AA.VV. Esperienze di spending review in Enti Locali e Regioni. Roma, Formez, ISBN: 9788894101621
  • 2014, Schillaci C.E., Romano M., Nicotra M., “Imprenditorialità & Absorptive Capacity Territoriale: il caso della Sicilian Venture Philanthropy Foundation”, Sinergie,  n.17. 
  • 2014, Schillaci C.E., Romano M., Garraffo F., Rapporto di Ricerca “Analisi dell’impatto socio-economico di Coca-Cola Italia e SIBEG in Sicilia”, pp. 1-160. 
  • 2014  Romano M., Nicotra M., Schillaci C.E., “Principal Investigators: research-oriented vs entrepreneurial exploitation”, in Canningham J. (Eds) Principle Investigators as Boundary Spanners, Science and Market Shapers, Oxford University Press (in press). 
  • 2014, Schillaci C.E., La Rosa A., Merito(fobia). No thanks!, Rubettino, Catanzaro, ISBN: 9788849841749.