Ruben Sacerdoti graduated from the University of Bologna and obtained his master\u2019s degree in international economics at the University of Torino.<\/p>\n
From 2003 he is the Director of the Department for the Business Internationalization and FDI attraction of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Government, managing a staff of 20 people and a budget of around 30 million euros per year.<\/p>\n
The focus countries of its activity were mainly USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Japan, India, Russia, Israel and South Africa.<\/p>\n
An important part of its the activity is concentrated in defining and managing programs devoted to favor the international cooperation between the Emilia-Romagna Regional High Technology Network (HTN) and international partners, mainly in advanced countries in Europe, North America and Asia.<\/p>\n
He started his activity as a researcher in ASTER, the Regional Technology Agency, and ERVET, Emilia-Romagna Regional Development Agency. Later he moved to the corporate consultancy in the field of innovation, internationalization, finance, start-up high-tech and venture capital. From 2001 he spent two years at the European Commission, DG Enterprise as Project officer of Innovation Policy C-1 Unit, managing PAXIS, the Pilot Action of VFP finalised at high-tech start-ups promotion in EU and NACs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1565,"template":"","country":[92],"class_list":["post-1568","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-italy-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n