Carlo Bottai is Postdoctoral researcher at the Technology, Innovation & Society group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), as part of the EuroTech alliance. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy) in March 2019.

Before, he studied Political and Social Sciences at the Universities of Florence and Economics at the University of Bologna, and he attended a Master in Economics and Complexity at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin). As a PhD Student, he visited INET - University of Oxford and CID at Harvard University (HKS), for a term each.

His main research interests are in Economics of Innovation; Regional and Urban Economics; Complex Networks Economics; and Economic and Business History.