Giuseppe Scellato is Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches Corporate Finance and Economics and Management of Innovation. Since 2018 he is the Chairman of the Business Incubator of Polytechnic of Turin – I3P (www.i3p.it). Between 2019 and 2021 he has been a member of the board of directors of LIFTT, an investment company specialised in seed financing. Since 2020 he is in the board of directors of RIF-T, an investment fund focused on early stage ventures and scale-ups.

His main research interests are in the areas of economics and management of innovation, entrepreneurship, venture capital markets and the financing of innovation, strategic management of intellectual property rights. His scientific publications have appeared in leading international journals, including Science, Nature, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Business Research. He has been guest editor for different scientific journals in the field of innovation studies. In recent years, he has been the principal investigator of research projects funded by the European Commission, the European Patent Office, the EU Joint Research Center, the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA).  He has been member of expert groups and committees for the evaluation of public policies for research and innovation in different Italian regions. He has managed numerous consulting projects with public and private organisations in the areas of technology assessment, intellectual property rights and innovation.