Our Events and News
15, 16 January 2026
Organizing the Winter School for Early Career Scholars titled: “The Role of Generative AI in Research and Education”
Winter school | AiIG Early Career Scholar Lab, Third edition – Università di Genova
Discover more14 January 2026
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Startup” 2025-26
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
Unipd official page Read the instructions (pdf)25 September 2025
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F. & Muffatto, M. (2025). Optimizing Startup Team Composition: A Generative AI and Genetic Algorithm–Based Approach. 20th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)
Conference paper presentation | 20th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Krakow
Read the full paper11 October 2024
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F. & Muffatto, M. (2024). Exploring the Spectrum of Generative AI Integration in Entrepreneurship Research. XXXV Annual Scientific Meeting – RSA AiIG 2024.
Conference paper presentation | XXXV AiIG Scientific Meeting (RSA) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
11 October 2024
Organizing the Conference Track titled: “Entrepreneurship Through the AI Lens: Shaping Research and Practice”
Conference track | XXXV AiIG Scientific Meeting (RSA) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
9 August 2024
Co-organizing a PDW at the Academy of Managament (AOM) titled: “The AI Disruption of Entrepreneurship: A Setback or Breakthrough for Innovation? Research Incubator” – Professional Development Workshops (PDW – 16730)
Workshop | 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, Illinois
12 October 2023
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F., Kim, P.H. & Muffatto, M. (2023). Evaluating Traction in Tech-Driven Ventures: A Deep Learning Approach. XXXIV Annual Scientific Meeting – RSA AiIG 2023.
Conference paper presentation | XXXV AiIG Scientific Meeting (RSA) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
12 October 2023
Organizing the Conference Track titled: “The Data Science Perspective in Entrepreneurship and Management Research”
Conference track | XXXIV AiIG Scientific Meeting (RSA) – Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus
22 September 2023
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F., Kim, P.H. & Muffatto, M. (2023). Patterns of successful founding team composition and funding outcomes. 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)
Conference paper presentation | 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Porto
Read the full paper18 January 2023
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Startup” 2022-23
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
12 January 2022
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Technology-based Startups” 2021-22
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
16 September 2021
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F. & Muffatto, M. (2021). Startup Exits by Acquisition: A Cross Industry Analysis of Speed and Funding. 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)
Conference paper presentation | 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Lisbon/online
Read the full paper16 September 2021
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F., Chen, H. & Muffatto, M. (2021). A Deep Learning Model for Startups Evaluation Using Time Series Analysis. 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)
Conference paper presentation | 16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Lisbon/online
Read the full paper9 June 2021
Organizing the workshop titled: “Leveraging Machine Learning and Big Data for Research in Entrepreneurship”
Workshop | Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference – BCERC 21
20 January 2021
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Technology-based Startups” 2020-21
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
8 July 2020
Presenting the Conference Paper: Ferrati, F., & Muffatto, M. (2020). Setting Crunchbase for Data Science: Preprocessing, Data Integration and Feature Engineering. 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics
Conference paper presentation | 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics. Valencia/online
Read the full paper27 November 2019
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Technology-based Startups” 2019-20
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
12 March 2019
Official start of the course for PhD students and Post-Docs “Entrepreneurship and Technology-based Startups” 2018-19
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
13 February 2019
SCENT Technology Labs – Kick-off meeting
Università degli Studi di Padova, Lecture Hall “A. Lepschy”, Via Gradenigo 6, Padova
28 September 2018
Researchers’ Night – Veneto Night 2018
Università degli Studi di Padova, Palazzo Bo, Padova
21 March 2018
Official start of the SCENT Ventures Program 2018
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
31 May 2017
I Love Startup in New York
Workshop on technology-based startups and local ecosystems
Main speaker: Clifford Schorer – Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Columbia University, New York
Event | Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano, Padova
24 March 2017
Official start of the SCENT Ventures Program 2017
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
3 March 2017
Official start of the DILab 2017
DII – Università degli Studi di Padova
22 November 2016
The Startup Night – Regional final phase of the “Startup Europe Awards Italy”
Event | Centro Conferenze della Camera di Commercio, Piazza Zanellato, Padova
3 May 2016
Assessing and Managing a Regional Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Perspective Lecture
Prof. Jonathan Levie, University of Strathclyde
Aula Magna, Università degli Studi di Padova
15 April 2016
Official start of the SCENT Ventures Program 2016
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
18 March 2016
Official launch of the third edition of SCENT Ventures Program
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
26 June 2015
Start up innovative: il mosaico prende forma
Presentation of the report “Nuove Imprese Innovative Italia 2014”
Event | Centro Conferenze della Camera di Commercio, Piazza Zanellato, Padova
8 May 2015
Official launch of the second edition of SCENT Ventures Program
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
20-21 April 2015
Young Innovators Under 35
Event | Aula Magna “Galileo Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova
26 March 2015
Presentation of the report “Global Entrepreneurship Italia 2014”
Event | Centro Cultuale Altinate San Gaetano, Padova
20 February 2015
Official start of the Design and Innovation Lab – DiLab 2015
DII – Università degli Studi di Padova
February 2014
Official launch of the first edition of SCENT Ventures Program
Course | Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Industrial Engineering (DII)
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