Massimiliano Guerini is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano and Director of the International Full Time MBA at MIP Graduate School of Business. His scientific activity is mainly in the area of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and university-industry linkages. He has studied whether and how different financing sources for start-ups (e.g., venture capital, angel financing, crowdfunding) contribute to the removal of firm financial constraints and firm performance, as well as the implications for entrepreneurial activity of governmental initiatives. He has also investigated the role of universities for the emergence of local entrepreneurial ecosystems. He has published on international peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Business Venturing, California Management Review, Journal of Corporate Finance, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, and Technovation, among others. He is member of the Italian Association of Management Engineering (AiIG) and of the Entrepreneurial Finance Association (ENTFIN). He has also participated in numerous research projects, promoted by the European Commission and various private and public institutions.