Since May 2015 to April 2018 I worked as Business Developer at the Co-location Centre South of the EIT Raw Materials. In 2013 I started the Centre Research & Industry, an enterprise support service organization, supported by CNR and Tuscany Region. In period 2008-2013 I have been director of the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” of CNR, coordinating tens of projects developing advanced technologies in photonics. In 1972-2013 I served as scientific researcher at the CNR, the main public research organisation in Italy.