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, Erasmus University Rotterdam (on leave from
Bergamo University).
• 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.
Research Fields
• Economics of Innovation;
• Industrial Dynamics;
• Industrial Organization;
• Applied Microeconomics;
• Evolutionary Economics;
• Business and Economic History.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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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