STEFANO BRESCHI

STEFANO BRESCHI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am Professor of Applied Economics and I am Director of the Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, and Strategy (ICRIOS) at Bocconi University. I obtained my PhD from the University of Pavia, and my MSc degree from MERIT, University of Maastricht.


Research interests

Undergoing research projects:

Using Twitter data to assess showcasing strategies in entrepreneurs’ quest for venture capital funding (with Damiano Morando and Anne Ter Wal)

Immigrant Inventors and the US technological leadership in the twentieth century using IPUMS Census data (with Andrea Morrison)

Job Titles and Mobility of Knowledge Workers (with Diego Zunino, Bruno Cirillo, and Filippo Wezel)

Chinese Returnees and Innovation: Is There a Synergy Effect? (with Andrea Morrison and Yibo Qiao).


Selected Publications

Zunino, Diego; Cirillo, Bruno; Wezel, Filippo Carlo; Breschi, Stefano
New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014
INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE, 2024

Tzabbar, Daniel; Cirillo, Bruno; Breschi, Stefano
The differential impact of intra-firm collaboration and technological network centrality on employees' likelihood of leaving the firm
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2022

Breschi, Stefano; Johnstone, Nick; Menon, Carlo
Are start-ups funded by public venture capital different? New cross-country evidence from micro-data
INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE, 2021