Andrea Ancona is a PhD Candidate in Markets and Institution for Development and Innovation at the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of the Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated in Management Engineering, with a specific background in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. His research interests include innovation ecosystems and collaborative R&D, specifically mapping the interactions among companies, universities, research institutes, support organisations and entrepreneurs, by means of Social Network Analysis tools and complexity theory. He is actually working as a researcher at T6.