Christian Catalini will join the MIT Sloan Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group in the summer of 2013, after completing his PhD in Strategy at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management. 

 

Christian's main areas of interest are the economics of innovation, entrepreneurship and scientific productivity. His research focuses on crowdfunding and online entrepreneurial finance, how proximity affects the recombination of ideas, the adoption of technology standards, science and technology interactions. He holds a MSc (summa cum laude) in Economics and Management of New Technologies from Bocconi University, Milan.  In 2009-10 he was a visiting student at Harvard University. He has presented his research on proximity and innovation at a variety of institutions including Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, London Business School.