Giovanni Dosi has been Professor of Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) since 1998, where he has been Director of the Institute of Economics from 2011 to 2017 and founded the International Doctoral Program in Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex and before joining Sant'Anna has been Director of the International Research Project on "Technological and Economic Dynamics" at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg (Austria) and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the first academy of sciences in Italy. He was awarded The Wiley TIM Distinguished Scholar Award by the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the American Academy of Management (2016).