The working paper on the geography of crowd-funding I've been working on with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb, received a summer grant from the NET institute.
About the NET institute: "The Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications ("NET") Institute is a non-profit institution devoted to research on network industries, electronic commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, "virtual networks" comprised of computers that share the same technical standard or operating system, and on network issues in general. Of particular interest is research on innovation and introduction of new technology in network industries. The NET Institute functions as a world-wide focal point for research and open exchange and dissemination of ideas in these areas. The NET Institute competitively funds cutting edge research projects in these areas of research. It organizes conferences and seminars on these issues." (Source: http://www.netinst.org/)
PhD Candidate in Strategy at the Rotman School of Management and technology enthusiast, I wrote my undergraduate degree thesis on the economics of open source development and my MSc final dissertation on "The link between science and technology: exploring the network of inventors and scientific authors in the semiconductor industry". After working at KITES-CESPRI Bocconi on the European research project “Highly cited patent”, I've started my PhD in Strategic Management at Rotman. Current projects include "Markets Making Music", with Ajay Agrawal; "Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Formal Standards", with Timothy Simcoe; "Authors-inventors: life on the boundary between science and technology", with Stefano Breschi. 
