Chiara Franzoni | Understanding Risk in Science

Bio: Dr. Chiara Franzoni is Associate Professor at the School of Management and Director of the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the MIP-Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Franzoni's researchhas been supported by the DG-Research of the European Commission and by research programs of the Sloan Fundation. She has served in expert panels for policy making in science and technology. Her research has been published in numerous journals including Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Nature Biotechnology, and PNAS.

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Summary: Dr. Chiara Franzoni has built a career researching the economics of science. Improving the funding system, she hypothesizes, requires us to first establish a common understanding of "risk" in science. She recently co-authored a landmark paper to address this keystone issue.

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