I am an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI.
My research interests focus on innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, firm growth and the effects of financial constraints for innovative firms. My research papers have been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Science, Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change.
My teaching mainly focuses on Innovation and technology strategy, with a particular interest in Social and Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I have also been teaching courses in Economics of Innovation and Research Methodology at the PhD level, International Business at the MBA and MSc level and Economics of organization and Statistics at the undergraduate level. I have collaborated in the Analytics for Strategic Management Master of Management program together with Espen Andersen and John Chandler Johnson at BI.
Before joining BI I was an Assistant Professor in the Business Department at Carlos III University, Madrid. I received my Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. I received a degree in Statistics from the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.
We study earnings of individuals who exit entrepreneurship for paid employment. We find mean (median) positive rewards from entrepreneurship in subsequent paid employment relative to matched employees. Rewards are higher for former entrepreneurs hired in highly innovative sectors. We also find that the performance of the exited firm is a strong predictor of the earnings premium for former entrepreneurs when the firm performed well, while we do not find median discounts for entrepreneurs exiting low performing firms. We use registry data that encompass the population of firms and individuals in the Norwegian economy.
Luzzi, Alessandra & Sasson, Amir (2015)
Entrepreneurial skills or reward for success? Does entrepreneurship pay in future paid employment?