Céline Barrédy: How did you get involved in the STEP Project?Dr Rodrigo Basco: I was with Andrea Calabro at Witten University, the leading European Team (one of the first founders affiliated to STEP Project) and I decided to continue with the STEP Project. This project manages knowledge transfer to others really well. I was welcomed into the STEP team very early and contributed to enabling European institutions to join the project. I also coordinated research activities around that project. Then I became involved in the Step Global Board up to 2020.C. B.: What are the main research themes within the STEP Project?R. B.: The key point is entrepreneurship in business families. Family business is already a significant player, but we are trying to explore the business family. What are they doing? How do they organize themselves inside the family? In particular, as regards maintaining their competitiveness. We develop the entrepreneurship perspective from the family side. The resource perspective is particularly interesting. We work on the kinds of resources the family can bring to the entrepreneurship perspective, whether they are intangible or tangible. Concerning the former, we can highlight social capital, entrepreneurship culture, human capital, all of which can boost the entrepreneurial orientation of business families. These issues also need to shed light at first, on classical perspectives like corporate governance according to family size, to business size and the way resources can be organized…