BRUNO DALLAGO PhD is Professor of Economics at the University of Trento and Academic Director of the Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development, Italy. He was President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and Consultant to various international organizations. His research interests include comparative economics, transforming economies of Central and East Europe, SMEs and entrepreneurship.