I am an Assistant Professor at Insper. My research examines how institutional environments shape firms' innovation strategies. I study how evaluative regimes (e.g., certifications, endorsements, and innovation policies), appropriability regimes (e.g., trade-secret law and intellectual property ownership), and informal institutions (e.g., regional trust) reshape firms' strategic choices throughout the innovation process, including where they search for knowledge, with whom they collaborate, and how they source external technologies. A complementary stream investigates how organizational structures affect firms' capacity to generate and exploit knowledge. My earlier research focused on the institutions governing university technology transfer.

Before embarking on my academic career, I worked for several years as a requirements engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany. I am enthusiastic about innovation and the inventor of seven patents. 

Last updated: July 2026