My research focuses on the economics and management of innovation, and encompasses both qualitative and quantitative methods. I am interested in the emergence and development of new technologies; the role of organisational and institutional changes; the creation, use and exchange of knowledge; and the relation between demand and innovation.
Themes of interest:
Innovation processes: sources and effects;
Knowledge growth: creation, application, diffusion and governance;
Systems of Innovation: structure and long-term evolution;
Demand and innovation: consumption, learning, habit formation;
Empirical areas of interest:
Medicine and Health-care;
Environmental Technologies;
Education and Economic Development;
Knowledge Intensive Service Activities;
Dynamics of Scientific Communities and Networks of Knowledge;
These will plausibly, and hopefully, change/evolve over time.