[1] From 1986 to 2002, he was Adjunct a Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations at Dickinson College and a member of the Academic Council of the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center.
From 1988 to 2000, he was scientific director of SINNEA International, the research and training institute of the Lega delle cooperative.
In 1991, at the Department of Business Administration at Modena University, he founded the Centre for International and Comparative Studies, and set up an innovative research programme in labour law and industrial relations.
[3] Biagi was shot dead by members of the New Red Bridgades outside his home in Bologna on 19 March 2002,[4] due to his role as an economic advisor to Roberto Maroni, a minister in Silvio Berlusconi's government.
A scholarship with his name is now offered by Johns Hopkins University for study at their overseas campus in Bologna.