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Business and Management
Italy
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
66
Citations
19916
World Ranking
378
National Ranking
3

Economics and Finance

D-Index
66
Citations
19770
World Ranking
567
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Massimo G. Colombo is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields, including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Management Information Systems.

The main topics covered in their work are diverse and include Private Equity and Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion.

Frequent coauthors contributing to several publications alongside Colombo are Benedetta Montanaro, Massimiliano Guerini, Silvio Vismara, Anita Quas, and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra.

The venues where Colombo publishes regularly include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Research Policy
  • Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
  • The Journal of Technology Transfer

Massimo G. Colombo has authored or coauthored papers such as:

  • Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry, 2020, Research Policy
  • The CEO beauty premium: Founder CEO attractiveness and firm valuation in initial coin offerings, 2021, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Dynamic capabilities and high-tech entrepreneurial ventures' performance in the aftermath of an environmental jolt, 2020, Long Range Planning
  • What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge, 2020, Research Policy

In addition to journal articles, Colombo has contributed to book publications. These include titles published by CRC Press and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis such as Entrepreneurial Finance (2020) and Entrepreneurial Finance: A Definitive Guide (2020).

Best Publications

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

    Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding

    Massimo G. Colombo;Chiara Franzoni;Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

  • How effective are technology incubators?: Evidence from Italy

    Massimo G. Colombo;Marco Delmastro

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

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Conceptualising the heterogeneity of research-based spin-offs: A multi-dimensional taxonomy

    Philippe Mustar;Marie Renault;Massimo G. Colombo;Evila Piva

  • New players in entrepreneurial finance and why they are there

    Joern H. Block;Joern H. Block;Massimo G. Colombo;Douglas J. Cumming;Silvio Vismara;Silvio Vismara

  • THE IMPACT OF M&A ON THE R&D PROCESS. AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND MARKET RELATEDNESS

    Bruno Cassiman;Bruno Cassiman;Massimo G. Colombo;Paola Garrone;Reinhilde Veugelers;Reinhilde Veugelers

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

    Fabio Bertoni;Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Empirical Tests Of Optimal Cognitive Distance

    Stefan Wuyts;Massimo G. Colombo;Shantanu Dutta;Bart Nooteboom

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

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli;Evila Piva

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

    Massimo G. Colombo;Luca Grilli

  • Alliance form: a test of the contractual and competence perspectives

    Massimo G. Colombo

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

    Massimo G. Colombo;Marco Delmastro;Luca Grilli

  • Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success:

    Vincenzo Buttice;Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Mike Wright

  • Governmental venture capital for innovative young firms

    Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Douglas J. Cumming;Silvio Vismara

  • Complementarity and cumulative learning effects in early diffusion of multiple technologies

    Rocco Mosconi;Massimo G. Colombo

  • Delegation of Authority In Business Organizations: An Empirical Test

    Massimo G. Colombo;Marco Delmastro

  • Firms’ genetic characteristics and competence-enlarging strategies: A comparison between academic and non-academic high-tech start-ups

    Massimo G. Colombo;Evila Piva

  • The governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Massimo G. Colombo;Giovanni Battista Dagnino;Erik E. Lehmann;MariPaz Salmador

  • The patterns of venture capital investment in Europe

    Fabio Bertoni;Massimo G. Colombo;Anita Quas

  • The patterns of venture capital investment in Europe

    Fabio Bertoni;Massimo G. Colombo;Anita Quas

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

    Massimo Gaetano Colombo;Luca Grilli

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Grilli
Luca Grilli Polytechnic University of Milan
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology
Silvio Vismara
Silvio Vismara University of Bergamo
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Andrea Bonaccorsi
Andrea Bonaccorsi University of Pisa
Isabella Nova
Isabella Nova Polytechnic University of Milan
Enrico Tronconi
Enrico Tronconi Polytechnic University of Milan
Lucia Piscitello
Lucia Piscitello Polytechnic University of Milan

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