Is Assistant Professor and Qualified Associate Professor of Management at the University of Catania, Department of Economics and Management. She is member of the ILhM Research Center for Advanced Studies in Innovation, Leadership and Health Management; member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Economics, Management and Statistics, owned by the University of Messina and the University of Catania; Editorial Board Member of the “Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”; Innovation manager registered in the list of the Ministry of Economic Development. She is author of several publications in leading scholarly peer to peer journals. The main research themes are related to absorptive capacity, knowledge transfer, start-ups, and data-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems.