My current research agenda focuses on the economics of innovation for sustainable transitions. It connects firm-level innovation, regional knowledge dynamics and policy evaluation, with particular attention to circular economy, green technologies, digital complementarities and labor-market change.
Main research lines
- Circular economy and innovation ecosystems: knowledge networks, bioeconomy, technological complementarities and regional capabilities.
- Critical Raw Materials, Supply risk and innovation dynamics.
- Green technologies and regional diversification: academic inventors, local knowledge bases and global knowledge sourcing.
- Innovation, skills and labor markets: skill requirements of the circular economy, training, wages and firm performance.
- Digital technologies and sustainable development: how digital capabilities interact with green and circular transitions.
- Policy evaluation and strategic technologies: empirical analysis for public policy, industrial strategy and territorial development.
Methods and data
Applied econometrics, NLP, patent and publication data, firm-level microdata, regional indicators, network analysis and counterfactual policy evaluation.