After getting a degree in Economics at Bocconi University, his research started from Social History studies, with Fernand Braudel in Paris, Aldo De Maddalena in Milan and Claudio Povolo in Venice. He has became then a journalist, helping the start-up of a financial daily newspaper in Italy, while he continued his research: in Ethics and Economics for an Italian bank, and in local development at the Oecd. Since 1994, the internet has become for Luca De Biase a major opportunity for developping new ideas in newsmaking. In 2005, he started the Nòva project at Il Sole 24 Ore. He still leads the lively and forward looking group of people that writes Nòva.