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Overview

Luca Grilli is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

Luca Grilli has published in a variety of venues, with multiple contributions in the following journals:

  • Small Business Economics
  • Industrial and Corporate Change
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Neural Computing and Applications
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Their recent scholarly works include:

  • Creativity and artificial intelligence: A multilevel perspective, 2024, Creativity and Innovation Management
  • Industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, and the human capital of founders, 2022, Small Business Economics

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Luca Grilli are:

  • Mattia Pedota
  • Lucia Piscitello
  • Riccardo Marzano
  • Giacinto Angelo Sgarro
  • Francesca Di Pietro

Other relevant publications associated with related research fields include works by other authors such as "Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives" (2020, Research Policy), "Talking about a revolution? Costly and costless signals and the role of innovativeness in equity crowdfunding" (2020, Journal of Small Business Management), and "Technology adoption and upskilling in the wake of Industry 4.0" (2022, Technological Forecasting and Social Change).

Best Publications

  • Founders' human capital and the growth of new technology-based firms: A competence-based view

    Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • On growth drivers of high-tech start-ups: Exploring the role of founders' human capital and venture capital

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Venture capital financing and the growth of high-tech start-ups : Disentangling treatment from selection effects

    Fabio Bertoni;Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • In search of complementary assets: The determinants of alliance formation of high-tech start-ups

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli;Evila Piva

  • Government, venture capital and the growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms

    Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu

  • Governmental and independent venture capital investments in Europe: a firm-level performance analysis

    Douglas J. Cumming;Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu

  • Funding Gaps? Access To Bank Loans By High-Tech Start-Ups

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Entrepreneurs' human capital and the start-up size of new technology-based firms

    Massimo G. Colombo;Marco Delmastro;Luca Grilli

  • Is there a relationship between public expenditures in energy R&D and carbon emissions per GDP? An empirical investigation

    Paola Garrone;Luca Grilli

  • Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives

    David Audretsch;David Audretsch;Alessandra Colombelli;Luca Grilli;Tommaso Minola

  • R&D subsidies and the performance of high-tech start-ups

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu

  • ICT services and small businesses’ productivity gains: An analysis of the adoption of broadband Internet technology

    Massimo G. Colombo;Annalisa Croce;Luca Grilli

  • Venture capital investor type and the growth mode of new technology-based firms

    Fabio Sergio Bertoni;Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • New technology-based firms in Europe: market penetration, public venture capital, and timing of investment

    Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu

  • Start-up size: The role of external financing

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Management Discretion and Political Interference in Municipal Enterprises. Evidence from Italian Utilities

    Paola Garrone;Luca Grilli;Xavier Rousseau

  • Effects of International R&D alliances on performance of high-tech start-ups: a longitudinal analysis

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu;Lucia Piscitello

  • Entrepreneurship policy and the financing of young innovative companies: Evidence from the Italian Startup Act

    Emanuele Giraudo;Giancarlo Giudici;Luca Grilli

  • When the going gets tough, do the tough get going? The pre-entry work experience of founders and high-tech start-up survival during an industry crisis

    Luca Grilli

  • Venture capital enters academia: an analysis of university-managed funds

    Annalisa Croce;Luca Grilli;Samuele Murtinu

  • Supporting high-tech start-ups: Lessons from Italian technology policy

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Founders’ human capital and the growth of new technology-based firms

    Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Luca Grilli

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo G. Colombo
Massimo G. Colombo Polytechnic University of Milan
Lucia Piscitello
Lucia Piscitello Polytechnic University of Milan
David B. Audretsch
David B. Audretsch Indiana University
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology
Magnus Henrekson
Magnus Henrekson Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato University College London
Einar Rasmussen
Einar Rasmussen Nord University

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