Ivana Pais teaches Economic Sociology in the Faculty of Economics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. She is involved in research into social networking for crowdfunding and coworking. She wrote “Crowdfunding. La via collaborativa all’imprenditorialità” [Crowdfunding. The collaborative path to entrepreneurship] with P. Peretti and C. Spinelli, Egea 2014 and “La rete che lavora” [The working net], Egea 2012. She writes for the work cloud of corriere.it http://corriere.it/.