Orete Piccolo is an industrial consultant and manager at the SCSOP Scientific Consulting Firm and technical consultant of Patent Offices. Initially he was a researcher at the Donegani Institute (Montedison) and researcher and assistant at Macromolecular Chemistry and Catalysis at ETH (Zurich Polytechnic) and then director of Research and Development at Blaschim SpA. He was a contract professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Pisa, University of Sassari, University of Pavia, University of Milan, and University of Trieste and today he continues to have fruitful collaborations with researchers from these universities.