Economic analysis and policy

Research products

Selected research products

Recent Pubblications:

• (with R. Carriero, M. Cada Zabetta and F. Tomatis) ‘Investigating PhDs’ early career occupational outcomes in Italy: Individual motivations, role of supervisor and gender differences’, Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01068-y, 2023
• (with C. Fassio and F. Rossi) ‘How do firms reach out to foreign universities? Inventors’ personal characteristics and the multinational structure of firms’, Journal of World Business, Volume 58, Issue 3, 101431, 2023.
• (with R. Colombari, S. Helper, R. Martins, R. Paolucci, R. Ricci and R. Seamans) The interplay between data-driven decision-making and digitalization: A firm-level survey of the Italian and U.S. automotive industries’, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol 255, 108718, 2023.
• (with A. Enrietti, C. Nava and P. Patrucco) 'The birth and development of the Italian automotive industry (1894-2015) and the Turin car cluster' Industrial and Corporate Change, pp. dtab058, 2021. Access here or here.
• (with C. Lawson and U. Finardi) 'The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis' Research Policy, Vol. 50, pp. 104182, 2021. Access here or here.
• (with B. Lepori and A. Mira) 'Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European universities' PLOS ONE, Vol. 14, pp. e0223415, 2019. Access here or here.
• (with C. Fassio and F. Rossi) 'Which governance of university–industry interactions increases the value of industrial inventions?' Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 28, pp. 1227–1256, 2019. Access here or here.
• (with M. Piolatto) 'Research assessment in the UK and Italy: Costly and difficult, but probably worth it (at least for a while)' Research Policy, Vol. 45, pp. 260–271, 2016. Access here or here.
• (with A. Fernández-Zubieta and C. Lawson) 'Productivity Pay-offs from Academic Mobility: Should I stay or should I go?' Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 25, pp. 91–114, 2016. Access here or here.
• (with R. Kataishi, M. Toselli, E. Guzmán, C. Lawson, A. Fernández-Zubieta and B. Barros) 'SiSOB data extraction and codification: A tool to analyze scientific careers' Research Policy, Vol. 44, pp. 1645–1658, 2015. Access here or here.
  Press coverage: Nature
• (with I. M. Bodas Freitas, F. Rossi and G. Geuna) 'Collaboration objectives and the location of the university partner: Evidence from the Piedmont region in Italy' Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 93, pp. 203–226, 2014. Access here or here.
• (with M. Perkmann, V. Tartari et al.) 'Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university–industry relations' Research Policy, Vol. 42, pp. 423–442, 2013. Access here or here.
• (with I. M. Bodas Freitas and F. Rossi) 'Finding the right partners: Institutional and personal modes of governance of university–industry interactions' Research Policy, Vol. 42, pp. 50–62, 2013. Access here or here.
• (with I. M. Bodas Freitas and F. Rossi) 'The governance of formal university–industry interactions: Understanding the rationales for alternative models' Prometheus, Vol. 30, pp. 29–45, 2012. Access here or here.
• (with F. Rossi) 'Changes to university IPR regulations in Europe and the impact on academic patenting' Research Policy, Vol. 40, pp. 1068–1076, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with C. Antonelli and C. Franzoni) 'The organization, economics, and policy of scientific research: What we do know and what we don't know–an agenda for research' Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 20, pp. 201–213, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with C. Daraio, A. Bonaccorsi et al.) 'The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project' Research Policy, Vol. 40, pp. 148–164, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with G. Crespi, P. D'Este and R. Fontana) 'The impact of academic patenting on university research and its transfer' Research Policy, Vol. 40, pp. 55–68, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with I. M. Bodas Freitas and F. Rossi) 'University–industry interactions: The unresolved puzzle' in C. Antonelli (ed.) Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 262–285, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with C. Antonelli and C. Franzoni) 'The contributions of economics to a science of science policy' in M. Colombo, L. Grilli, L. Piscitello and C. Rossi Lamastra (eds.) Science and Innovation Policy for the New Knowledge Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 19–36, 2011. Access here or here.
• (with G. Crespi, O. Nomaler and B. Verspagen) 'University IPRs and knowledge transfer: Is university ownership more efficient?' Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 19, pp. 627–648, 2010. Access here or here.
• (with A. Bonaccorsi and C. Daraio) 'Universities in the New Knowledge Landscape: Tensions, Challenges, Change–An Introduction' Minerva, Vol. 48, pp. 1–4, 2010. Access here or here.

Courses

• ECONOMICS OF KNOWLEDGE (CPS0831)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• POLITICA ECONOMICA (A-L) (SCP0157)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Commissione Didattica
• Consiglio di Dipartimento

• Commissione Monitoraggio e Riesame CdS Economic Analysis and Policy - EAP

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PROPOSTE DI TESI:

Tutti gli argomenti di economia dell'innovazione, economia della scienza, politiche riguardanti l'istruzione, la scienza e la tecnica e i temi di storia della scienza e della tecnica sono di mio interesse. Una lista di alcuni temi di interesse più recente:

Innovazione (AI e robotica) nella chirurgia e nella diagnostica medica

L'industria della carne artificiale, innovazione radicale o mercato oligopolistico

Innovazione nel green packaging

Auto elettrica futuro probabile?

Industria dell'automobile e resilienza regionale

L'industria dell'automobile e la convergenza con l'industria del software

Stellantis e l'auto che si guida da sola / auto elettrica

Lo sviluppo industriale in Piemonte e l'industria dell'auto

Politiche per la ricerca e sviluppo ed innovazione

La carriera dei ricercatori accademici e gli aspetti di genere

Il finanziamento pubblico e ricerca universitaria

Le relazioni fra università ed industria una storia di incomprensioni

Innovazione nel mercato dell'arte contemporanea

Storia dell'industria aereonautica italiana

Storia d'impresa