Joris Ebbers is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Luiss Business School in Rome and Academic Director of its Amsterdam Hub. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam Business School. His research examines entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy through a social network lens, with a particular focus on the creative industries. He has published in journals including the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, Organization Studies, Technovation, and Harvard Business Review. He has been a visiting scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo, New York University Stern School of Business, Bayes Business School in London, the University of Bologna, RMIT University, Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Melbourne. He also serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Business Venturing and Academy of Management Discoveries.