"Team Work Complexity, Scientific Competition and Interdisciplinary Research" Abstract This paper aims at understanding the increasing complexity of researchprojects as one of the possible explanations for the fall in researchers’ productivity observedover decades. We conceptualize a research project as an idea and a team of researchers.Each idea is associated to a given knowledge production function…

"The revenge of places that don’t matter" abstract Persistent poverty, economic decay and lack of opportunities cause discontent in declining regions, while policymakers reason that successful agglomeration economies drive economic dynamism, and that regeneration has failed. This column argues that this disconnect has led many of these ‘places that don’t matter’ to revolt in a…

"Innovation in Schumpeterian Firms: Internal or External Knowledge Spillover?" abstract An important characteristic of Schumpeterian entrepreneurs is their ability of knowledge creation and commercialization as part of a market disruption strategy. Building on the knowledge spillover of entrepreneurship theory, the corporate entrepreneurship strategy and economic geography literatures, this study distinguishes between an internal and external…

"Industry Knowledge, Prior Industry Experience and New Venture Survival"

"Exploring complementarity between R&D, ICT and organizational change"

"Organization and Finance of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Looking beyond the Surface" abstract In this paper we examine the association between the organization and the modes of financing of entrepreneurial ventures. By means of a mixed-methods study, we show that after receiving outside equity from external investors, entrepreneurial ventures’ top management teams becomes larger and more specialized.…

"The Welfare State Paradox for Women’s Entrepreneurship"

"Is this novel technology going to hit? Genetic markers predicting technological novelty diffusion"

"Beliefs, exams and social media: a study of girls and boys in the UK"

"The Effect of Knowledge and Social Interdependencies on Inventor Outward Mobility" Discussants: Orion Pener and Fabiana Visentin (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

"Post merger "network" integration: the case of Fiat and Chrysler" abstract I will present a forthcoming book on the merger between Fiat and Chrysler, co-authored with Markus Becker and Josh Whitford. This is a book about mergers of large firms which have extensive supply networks who carry out a substantial part of their productive and…

"Employment displacement in the fourth industrial revolution: torn between fear and past evidence"

"STEM and teens: Algorithm bias in the social network. Field experiment to identify any possible algorithm bias in the ad distribution"

"The Compositional Effect of the Productivity and Innovation Slowdown"

"Learning by seconding: evidence from NSF rotators"

"Who do small innovative firms compete with, where, and what demand curves do they face?"

"Internationalization and performance in the Italian automotive supply chain"

"The Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer with SME Firms"

"The economic, social, and environmental impacts of science-based new firms" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis, Seminar Room Abstract The creation of university spin-off firms is seen as an important mechanism for generating economic and societal impacts from universities and for the transfer of university knowledge into application in society. The…