Luciana Lazzeretti is Professor in Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, is director of Doctorates School in Economics and rurector of the Postgraduate Programme in "Economics and Management of the Museum Goods" in the University of Florence. Her main fields of research arc sectorial and local system analysis and the study of strategic behaviour of firms with a multi-disciplinary approach. She has focused on competitive dynamics under an evolutionist perspective, both at a sectorial level and at a "local" level (cities of art, industrial and cultural districts, urban, creative, and culniral clusters). She is author of several national and international publications.
Clara Stefania Petrillo is Senior Researcher at the Research Institute on Service Activities of the Italian Research Council (IRAT-CNR). Her main research interests lie in business economy with a particular focus on service sector: entrepreneurship and SMEs, governance and strategics of tourism actors; environmental awareness and sustainable development; religious heritage; networking and destination management, She has been involved in managing and coorrunating a number of research projects. She has been contract professor of Tourism Management and Administration at Parthenope University of Naples. She has attended at many conferences and published books and several articles in national and international journals.
