Mariasole Bannò is Assistant Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy, where she teaches in the fields of economics and management. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Technology in 2009 and then she was research fellow at University of Trento till 2015. From 2017 she is a European expert for the evaluation of project submitted to public funding, Horizon 2020 and SME instruments. She published several articles, a monography and book chapters in international publications, in the field of economics and management. In particular her works have been published on journals such as Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Policy Modeling, Journal of Family Business Strategy, International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Regional Studies and Applied Economics Letters. Her research interests concern: public policy evaluation, family business, innovation and internationalization of firms and gender issue.
She designed a new Arts-base method called Theatre Teaches and carried out at the University of Trento for the first time in the academic year 2014-2015.