Valentina Diana Rusu is a Scientific Research II at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania. She is a graduate in Finance at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Her current research activities are concerned with entrepreneurship, Small and medium enterprises, financing decision, innovation and competitiveness and panel data analysis. She has published around 60 papers in economic journals indexed in top international databases. Also, she was an active participant to over 60 scientific conferences at national and international level. She is a reviewer for several journals indexed Web of Sciences and other international data bases and also for several national and international scientific events.