RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research Affiliations
Research Fields
Grant funded research projects
Awards and Fellowships
Referee work
Workshop Coordinator
Invited presentations
Conference Presentations



Research Affiliations and Visiting Positions

• 2004 - present: Research Fellow at T.C Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

• 2000 - present: Associate Research Fellow at L.E.M. - Laboratory of Economics and Management, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.

• 2000 - present: Visiting Fellow at ISTAT (Italian National Statistical Office), Rome, Italy.

• 2003 November - 2004 July: Visiting Scholar at the T.C. Koopmans Institute, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University (on leave from Bergamo University).

• 2003 - May-October: Visiting Scholar at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (on leave from Bergamo University).

• 1997 July: Visiting Fellow at NBER
• 1997 July: Visiting Fellow at of Prof. Albert Carreras,
European University Institute, Florence.

• 1991 - 1996: Researcher at CESPRI (Centro Studi sui Processi di Internazionalizzazione), Project Title: Progetto Alta Velocità – gli effetti sul sistema economico, Bocconi University, Milan.


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Research Fields

• Economics of Innovation;
• Industrial Dynamics;
• Industrial Organization;
• Applied Microeconomics;
• Evolutionary Economics;
• Business and Economic History.


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Grant funded research projects

• 2007 - 2010 Project coordinator and principal researcher in the High Potential Programme project: “The Co-Evolution of Industrial Dynamics and Urban Growth”, financed by Utrecht University, based at Utrecht School of Economics (USE) and Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University.

• 2007 - 2009 Project coordinator and principal researcher in the research project: “The effects of Mergers and Acquisition on the firm innovation”, financed by University of Bergamo, based at Department of Economics, University of Bergamo

• 2005 - 2008 Principal Researcher in the research project “The Impact of M&A-driven market dominance on innovation dynamics” within the NWO Programme “Innovation Dynamics”, financed by the NWO (National Research Committee of the Netherlands), based at Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University

• 2005 - 2007: Researcher in the research project: Learning, Competitive Interactions and the Ensuing Patterns of Industrial Evolution, financed by the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, based at St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (MURST 40%).

• 2004 - present: Researcher in the research project: DIME NoE (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe - Network of Excellence), financed by the European Union.

• 2004 - 2005: Researcher in the project: Synergies and Dynamic efficiencies in mergers, financed by the Euorpean Commission, based at: EIM, Business & Policy Research, Zoetemeer, the Netherlands.

• 2001 - 2004: Researcher in the project: Competitività dell'economia trentina: un approccio valutativo della relazione tre dinamica imprenditoriale e intervento pubblico, funded by Provincia di Trento, based at the University of Trento.

• 2000 - 2001: Researcher in the project: EPRIS (European Pharmaceutical Regulation and Innovation Systems), funded by Merck Foundation.

• 1999 - 2001: Researcher in the project: Innovation and Industrial Performances: Microeconomic Evidence, Sectoral Patterns and Aggregate Dynamics, funded by Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST ex 40%).

• 1999 - 2000: Researcher in the project: ESSY (Sectoral Systems in Europe: Innovation Competitiveness and Growth), funded by the European Union (program TSER, DG.XII, Grant n.soe1-ct98-1116).

• 1997 - 2000: Researcher in the project: DYNACOMM (Dynamic Capabilities Growth and long term competitiveness of European Firms: a diagnosis and implication for EU policies), funded by the European Union (program. TSER, DG.XII, Grant n.soe1-ct97-1078).

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Awards and Fellowships


• 2006: Utrecht School of Economics award for Researcher of the year, Utrecht Universtiy.

• 2006: High Potential Grant of the Utrecht University (4 year grant).

• 1998 - 1999: European Union Training and Mobility of Researchers Grant, a Marie Curie funded Post-Doc (2 year grant), at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

• 1998 European Union Fellowship for the Summer School in Industrial Dynamics ESSID, IMRI - Université de Paris, Dauphine.

• 1996 - 1998: Post-Doc Grant, Department of Economics, University of Trento, (2 year grant).

• 1994: CIDE Fellowship for the Advanced Summer School in Econometrics, University of Bologna.


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Referee work


• Industrial and Corporate Change;
• International Journal of Industrial Organization;
• The Economic Journal;
• Economics of Innovation and New Technology;
• Research Policy;
• Journal of Evolutionary Economics;
• Review of Industrial Organization;
• Empirical Economics;
• International Journal of the Economics of Business;
• Oxford Economic Papers;
• Economia e Politica Industriale;
• Taylor and Francis Books, Routledge ;
• Review of Economics and Statistics;
• Management Science;
• Regional Studies.


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Workshop Coordinator


COOPERATIVE CREDIT AND SOCIAL FINANCE DURING RECESSION PERIODS (December 5th, 2008, Università Cattolica di Milano, Sede di Piacenza of Bergamo, Italy).

REVOLVING DOORS: ENTREPRENEURIAL SURVIVAL AND EXIT (November 27-28, 2008, Centre for Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing, Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, the Netherlands).


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Invited presentations


• February 2008: CESPRI, Università Bocconi, Milan.

• January 2008: Max Plank Institute of Economics and University of Jena, Jena, Germany.

• October 2007: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), JRC - European Commission, Seville, Madrid.

• November 2005: CESPRI, Università Bocconi, Milan.

• December 2003: T. Koopmans Institute, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht.

• April 2002: L.E.M., St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.

• May 2001: BETA, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.

• May 2000: École de Management (E.M. LYON), Lyon, France.


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Conference Presentations


Revolving Doors: Entrepreneurial Survival and Exit. Centre for Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing, Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 27-28 November 2008.

DIME workshop: The dynamics of firm evolution: productivity, profitability and growth, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 3-4 October 2008.

ENEF 2008 - European Network on the Economics of the Firm 2008 meeting, Knowledge, Organisation and the Firm, LEM - Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, 11-12 September 2008.

ECEI 2007 - 2° European Conference in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 8-9 November 2007.

CONCORD 2007 - 1° European Conference on Corporate R&D, Knowledge for Growth: Role and Dynamics of Corporate R&D, Seville, Spain, October 2007.

DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) Summer Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2007.

DIME (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe – Network of Excellence) workshop, Firm-Level Longitudinal Data on Economic Performances and their Determinants, Volterra, Italy, 5-8 June 2006 (invited).

Max-Planck Institute of Economics conference, Firm Exit and Serial Entrepreneurship, Jena, Germany, January 2006 (invited).

EARIE (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) Conferences, Vienna 1996, Torino 1999, Madrid 2002, Berlino 2004, Porto 2005, Amsterdam 2006.

Schumpeter Society Conference, Manchester 2000; Milan 2004; Nice, 2006.

EMAEE (European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics), Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 2005.

Business Performance in the 20th century: A comparative Perspective, Bocconi University, Milan, 14-16 October 2004 (invited).

Conference in Honor of Keith Pavitt, What do we Know about Innovation?, SPRU, Brighton, UK, 2003.

The Open University Conference, Innovation, Growth and Market Structure: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, London, 2003 (invited).

EUNIP (European Network of Industrial Policy) Conference, Turku, Finland, 2002; e Porto, Portugal, 2003.

University of Bologna Conference, The Post-entry Performance of Firms: Technology, Growth, and Survival, Bologna, 2002 (invited).

• ZEW Conference, The Economics of Entrepreneurship and the Demography of Firms and Industries, Mannheim, 2002 (invited).

L.E.M. Conference, International Workshop on Industrial Dynamics, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, 2002 (invited).

• ECIS (Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies) Conference, The Future of Innovation Studies, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2001.

Nelson and Winter Conference, DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics), Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

Applied Evolutionary Economics Conference, Grenoble 1999.

The Economics of Science and Technology: micro-fundations and policy, Urbino, Italy, 1998.

ESEM (European Society Econometric Meeting) Conferences, Istambul 1996; Santiago de Compostela 1999.

EEA (European Economic Association) Conference, Istambul 1996.

RES (Royal Economic Society) Conference, Swansee, UK, 1996
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