Italo Trevisan lives in a small town in the mountains close to Trento. He is married with two daughters. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, where he teaches courses in English in several Master’s programmes. He is one of the founders of the European Master in Business Studies (EMBS) joint degree programme and its coordinator for UniTrento. He is also involved in and coordinator of various European and international programmes. His areas of research are the internationalisation process of SMEs, their role and that of entrepreneurs in local development, particularly in third world countries.