Engineer, musician and philanthropist, I have been working for several years on the analysis of the telecommunication and internet markets in Europe, for which I authored several strategic studies for the European Commission in late '90s. In the following years I worked on the design and the development of new strategies for the public communication of scientific innovation and I founded in 2004 the editorial platform youris.com, forerunner of several scientific editorial on-line magazines on European science and innovation. Besides innovation management and entrepreneurial activities, in 2012 I created Theresia, an international private patronage project providing support to young talents in the areas of art, music and humanities. In 2016 I integrated the two aspects of my profession in a single organization, ICONS, which I currently chair.