Main publications


Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls-Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan (2024)

Strategic Management Journal. Co-authored with Gino Cattani and Giuseppe Carignani

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Technological entry, redeployability and firm value  (2022)

Journal of Management Studies. Co-authored with Mario Amore

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Measuring exaptation and its impact on innovation, search and problem-solving (2017)

Organization Science. Co-authored with Pierpaolo Andriani and Ayfer Ali

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Innovation through exaptation and its determinants: The role of technological complexity, analogy making and patent scope (2016)

Research Policy. Co-authored with Victor Gilsing 

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Factor markets, actors and affordances (2016)

Industial and Corporate Change. Co-authored with Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman and Antonio Mastrogiorgio

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Technological entry in new niches: Diversity, crowding and generalism (2022)

Technovation. Co-authored with Victor Gilsing and Juan Antonio Candiani

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Quantum cognition in management research: A novel methodological framework with an application to causal ambiguity (2024)

European Management Review. Co-authored with Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman and Antonio Mastrogiorgio

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More thumbs than rules: Is rationality an exaptation? (2022)

Frontiers in Psychology. Co-authored with Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman and Antonio Mastrogiorgio

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AI in innovation research: An overview of transformers (2025)

Industry and Innovation. Single authored

Forthcoming      

Data and codes (available soon)


New developments in evolutionary innovation: Novelty creation in a serendipitous economy (2021)

Oxford University Press. Co-edited with Gino Cattani. 

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