Marco Baccanti - Curriculum vitae

Italian mother tongue, fluent in English, French and Spanish, also speaks Serb-Croate.
Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at University of Milan - Italy
Business Administration courses at Duke University, USA.

2004 – today: General Manager – Science Park Raf, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park – Milan – Italy
2003 - today: CEO – San Raffaele biomedical Science Park Foundation – Rome, Italy. A R&D centre with 80 scientists active in stem cells research, with private companies as tenants.
1994-2003: Managing Director – Centuria Science & Technology Park – Cesena, Italy. A private science park owned by a cluster of around 50 companies in the food technology sector, specialized in tech transfer, business development and intellectual property management.
1989-1994: Business unit manager – Carlo Erba Instruments – Milan, Italy
1985-1989: R&D responsible for Elemental Analysis, Carlo Erba Instruments, 4 international patents registered as first inventor.

Side activities:
2003-today: member of the Board of Assobiotec, the association of Italian biotech companies affiliated to Confindustria (www.assobiotec.it)
2002-2004: President of IASP – International Association of Science Parks (www.iasp.ws)
2000-2002: Vice-President of IASP
1997 – 2006: Secretary General of APSTI – Italian Association of Science Parks (www.apsti.it)
2002- today: Chairman of Eurolink partners – Zurich-Switzerland (www.eurolinkpartners.net)
2001-2002: Italian member of the European Commission expert group on clustering and competitiveness, nominated by the Italian Ministry of Industry.
Occasional teaching activity in master courses in innovation management in University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan), University S.Anna (Pisa), Federico II (Naples), Cattolica (Piacenza), SSUP (Lugano, Switzerland), University of Siena as well as in internal seminars for Confindustria (Rome)

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