Publications

Peer reviewed articles

1. Marino, A., & Quatraro, F. (2023). Leveraging global recombinant capabilities for green technologies: the role of ethnic diversity in MNEs’ dynamics. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48(4), 1413-1445.

2. Dughera, S., Quatraro, F., Ricci, A., & Vittori, C. (2023). Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions. Industrial and Corporate Change, dtad062.

3. Dughera, S., Quatraro, F., Ricci, A., & Vittori, C. (2023). Are temporary hires good or bad for innovation? The Italian evidence. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1-24.

4. Orsatti, G., Quatraro, F., & Scandura, A. (2023). Green technological diversification and regional recombinant capabilities: the role of technological novelty and academic inventors. Regional Studies, 1-15.

5. Mascarini, S., Garcia, R., & Quatraro, F. (2023). Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation. Regional Studies, 1-15.

6. Antonelli, C., Feder, C., & Quatraro, F. (2023). Technological congruence and Smart Specialisation: evidence from European regions. Spatial Economic Analysis, 18(2), 173-196.

7. Baudino, M., Krafft, J., & Quatraro, F. (2023). Exploring the direct rebound effects for residential electricity demand in urban environments: evidence from Nice. The Annals of Regional Science, 1-39.

8. Fabrizio Fusillo, Davide Consoli & Francesco Quatraro (2022) Resilience, Skill Endowment, and Diversity: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas, Economic Geography, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2021.2008797.

9. Antonelli, C., Crespi, F., & Quatraro, F. (2022). Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence. Research Policy, 51(8), 104081.

10. Montresor, S., Orsatti, G., & Quatraro, F. (2022). Technological novelty and key enabling technologies: evidence from European regions. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1-22.

11. Cottafava, D., Gastaldo, M., Quatraro, F., & Santhiá, C. (2022). Modeling economic losses and greenhouse gas emissions reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Past, present, and future scenarios for Italy. Economic Modelling, 110, 105807.

12. Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Quatraro, F., Vatanparast, H., Lam, S. S., Aghbashlo, M., & Tabatabaei, M. (2022). Biomass and organic waste potentials towards implementing circular bioeconomy platforms: A systematic bibliometric analysis. Fuel, 318, 123585.

13. Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Ferraris, A., Quatraro, F., Rehan, M., Nizami, A. S., ... & Tabatabaei, M. (2022). Biofuel supply chain management in the circular economy transition: An inclusive knowledge map of the field. Chemosphere, 296, 133968.

14. Consoli, D., Fusillo, F., Orsatti, G., & Quatraro, F. (2021). Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from US Metropolitan Areas. Industry and Innovation, 1-29.

15. Colombelli, A., Orsatti, G., & Quatraro, F. (2021). Local knowledge composition and the emergence of entrepreneurial activities across industries: evidence from Italian NUTS-3 regions. Small Business Economics, 56(2), 613-635.

16. Dughera, S., Quatraro, F., & Vittori, C. (2021). Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-16.

17. Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Zanetti, M. C., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P. O., Aghbashlo, M., ... & Tabatabaei, M. (2021). Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 126660.

18. Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P. O., & Quatraro, F. (2021). Recovery agenda for sustainable development post COVID-19 at the country level: developing a fuzzy action priority surface. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-28.

19. Ranjbari, M., Saidani, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Peng, W., Lam, S. S., Aghbashlo, M., ... & Tabatabaei, M. (2021). Two decades of research on waste management in the circular economy: Insights from bibliometric, text mining, and content analyses. Journal of Cleaner Production, 128009.

20. Colombelli, A., D'Ambrosio, A., Meliciani, V., Quatraro, F. (2020). Newborn firms and regional diversification patterns: The role of cultural diversity. Economic Geography, forthcoming.

21. Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F. and Usai S. (2020). Going green: The dynamics of green technological alliances. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming.

22. Orsatti, G., Quatraro, F. and Pezzoni, M. (2020). The antecedents of green technologies: The role of team-level recombinant capabilities. Research Policy, 49 (3), 103919.

23. Colombelli, A., Ghisetti, C. and Quatraro, F. (2020). Green technologies and firms’ market value: a micro-econometric analysis of European firms. Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming.

24. Consoli, D.,  Orsatti, G., Perruchas, F. , Quatraro, F.  (2020). Public procurement, local labor markets and green technological change: Evidence from US Commuting Zones.  Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.

25. Montresor, S. and Quatraro, F. (2019). Green technologies and smart specialisation: a European patent-based analysis of the intertwining of technological relatedness and Key Enabling Technologies. Regional Studies, forthcoming.

26. Colombelli, A., Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F. (2019). Firms' growth, green gazelles and eco-innovation: Evidence from a sample of European firms. Small Business Economics, forthcoming.

27. Grinza, E., & Quatraro, F. (2019). Workers’ replacements and firms’ innovation dynamics: New evidence from Italian matched longitudinal data. Research Policy, 48(9), 103804. 

28. Colombelli, A. and Quatraro, F.  (2019). Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies. Small Business Economics, 52 (4), 773-792 .

29. Colombelli, A., Orsatti, G. and Quatraro, F.  Local knowledge composition and the emergence of entrepreneurial activities across industries: Evidence from Italian NUTS-3 regions. Small Business Economics, forthcoming.

30. Arouri, H., Ben Youssef, A., Quatraro, F. and Vivarelli, M. Drivers of Growth in Tunisia: Young Firms vs Incumbents. Small Business Economics, forthcoming.

31. Quatraro, F. and Scandura, A, 2019. Academic inventors and the antecedents of green technologies. A regional analysis of Italian patent data. Ecological Economics 156, 247-263.

32. D'Ambrosio, A., Montresor, S., Parrilli, D. and Quatraro, F., 2019.  Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: an empirical analysis of Spanish regions. Regional Studies 53, 6-16.

33. Colombelli, A,, and Quatraro, F, 2018. New firm formation and regional knowledge production modes: Italian evidence. Research Policy 47, 139-157..

34. Bianchini, S., Krafft, J., Quatraro, F. and Ravix, J.L., 2018. Corporate Governance, Innovation and Firm Age: Insights and New Evidence. Industrial and Corporate Change 27,349-370.

35. Montresor, F. and Quatraro, F., 2017. Regional branching and Key Enabling Technologies. Evidence from European patent data. Economic Geography 93, 367-396.

36. Ghisetti, C. and Quatraro, F., 2017, Is green knowledge improving environmental productivity? Sectoral Evidence from Italian Regions. Ecological Economics 132, 1-13.

37. Quatraro, F. and Usai, S., 2017, Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions, Regional Studies 51, 1133-1137.

38. Arouri, H., Ben Youssef, A. and Quatraro, F 2016. Entry, exit and net job creation in Tunisia: an exploratory analysis. Eurasian Business Review  6(3), 323-337. 

39. Quatraro, F., 2016, Co-evolutionary patterns in regional knowledge bases and economic structure: evidence from European Regions, Regional Studies, 50, 513-539.

40. Quatraro, F. and Vivarelli, M., 2015, Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries. World Bank Research Observer, 30, 277-305.

41. Crespi, F., Ghisetti, C. and Quatraro, F., 2015. Environmental and Innovation policies for the evolution of green technologies: a survey and a test. Eurasian Business Review 5, 343-370.

42. Colombelli, A., Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F., 2014, The emergence of new technology-based sectors in European regions: A proximity-based analysis of nanotechnology, Research Policy, 43, 1681-1696.

43. Krafft, J., Quatraro F. and Saviotti P.P., 2014, Knowledge characteristics and the dynamics of technological alliances in Pharmaceuticals: Empirical evidence from Europe, US and Japan, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24, 587-622.

44. Colombelli, A., Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F., 2014, High Growth Firms and Technological Knowledge: Do gazelles follow exploration or exploitation strategies?, Industrial and Corporate Change, 23(1), 261-291.

45. Krafft, J., Quatraro F. and Saviotti P.P., 2014, The dynamics of knowledge-intensive sectors’ knowledge base: Evidence from Biotechnology and Telecommunications, Industry and Innovation 21, 215-242.

46. Antonelli, C. and Quatraro F., 2014, The effects of biased technological changes on total factor productivity: A rejoinder and new empirical evidence, Journal of Technology Transfer, 39(2), 281-299.

47. Colombelli A. and Quatraro, F., 2014, The persistence of firms’ knowledge base: A quantile approach to Italian data, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 23, 585-610.

48. Krafft, J., Qu, Y., Quatraro, F. and Ravix, J.L., 2014, Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database, forthcoming, Industrial and Corporate Change, 23(2), 361-397.

49. Ghisetti, C. and Quatraro, F., 2013, Beyond inducement in climate change: Does environmental performance spur environmental technologies? A regional analysis of cross-sectoral differences, Ecological Economics, 96, 99-113.

50. Colombelli, A., Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F., 2013, Properties of knowledge base and firm survival: Evidence from a sample of French manufacturing firms, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80, 1469-1483.

51. Antonelli, C. and Quatraro F., 2013, Localized Technological Change and Efficiency Wages: the Evidence across European Regions, Regional Studies, 47, 1686-1700.

52. Antonelli C., Patrucco P. and F. Quatraro, 2011, Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: Evidence from European Regions, Economic Geography, 87, 23-50.

53. Krafft J., Quatraro F. and P., Saviotti, 2011, The Knowledge Base Evolution in Biotechnology: A Social Network Analysis, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 20, 445-475.

54. Quatraro, F., 2011, ICT Capital and Services Complementarities. The Italian Evidence, Applied Economics, 43, 2603-2613.

55. Quatraro, F., 2010, Knowledge Coherence, Variety and Productivity Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions, Research Policy, 39, 1289-1302.

56. Antonelli, C., Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F., 2010, Recombinant knowledge and growth: The case of ICTs, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 21, 50-69. 

57. Antonelli, C. and Quatraro, F., 2010, The Effects of Biased Technological Change on Total Factor Productivity. Empirical Evidence from a Sample of OECD Countries, Journal of Technology Transfer, 35, 361-383.

58. Quatraro, F., 2009, Innovation, structural change and productivity growth. Evidence from Italian regions, 1980-2003, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33, 1001-1022.

59. Quatraro, F., 2009, The diffusion of regional innovation capabilities: Evidence from Italian patent data, Regional Studies, 43, 1333-1348.

60. Antonelli, C., Patrucco P.P. and Quatraro, F., 2008, The governance of localized knowledge externalities, International Review of Applied Economics, 22, 479-498.

61. Quatraro F., 2007, Change vs. Decline: A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of TFP in Italian Regions, with a Particular Attention to the case of Turin, International Review of Economics, 54, 86-105.

62. Quatraro, F., 2006, Technological Change and Productivity Growth in Italian Regions, 1982-2001, Region et Developpement, 24, 139-164.

63. Quatraro, F., 2005, A Schumpeterian Approach to Innovation Clustering in a Low-tech Technology in a Peripheral Region: The Case of Garments in Mezzogiorno, Innovation: Management, Policy& Practice, 7, 435-450.

64. Quatraro, F., 2005, An Ethno-Linguistic Approach to the Role of Services in Knowledge Transfer: The Case of the Innovation Relay Centre of Southern Italy, Prometheus, 23, 437-458.

Special Issues

1. “The dynamics of knowledge and innovation in knowledge-intensive industries”, edited by Jackie Krafft, Francesco Quatraro and Pier Paolo Saviotti, published on Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2011, vol. 20, issue 5 (July) 

2.  “Systemic Technology Policy: Issues and Instruments”, edited by Francesco Crespi and Francesco Quatraro, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, 2013, vol. 80, issue 8.

3.  “Emergence and evolution of new industries: The path-dependent dynamics of knowledge creation”, edited by Jackie Krafft, Sebastien Lechevalier, Francesco Quatraro, Cornelia Storz, to appear on Research Policy, fall 2014.

4.  “Firm age and performance”, edited by Alex Coad, Jacob Ruabaek Holm, Jackie Krafft and Francesco Quatraro, to appear on the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, fall 2015.

5.  “Knowledge Flows, Externalities and Innovation Networks: micro, meso and macro approaches”, edited by Francesco Quatraro and Stefano Usai, to appear on the journal Regional Studies.

Book Chapters

1. Quatraro, F., 2011. Knowledge Structure and Regional Economic Growth: The French case. In Libecap, G.D. and Hoskinson, S. (eds.) Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness in Regional Economies: Determinants and Policy Implications (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth, Volume 22), Emerald Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 185-217.

2. Colombelli, A. and Quatraro, F., 2012. The European Firm, in Dietrich, M. and Krafft, J. (eds) Handbook on the Economics and Theory of the Firm, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

3. Krafft, J. and Quatraro, F, 2011. The dynamics of technological knowledge: From linearity to recombination, in Antonelli, C. (ed) Handbook on System Dynamics of Technological Change, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 181-200.

4. Antonelli, C., Patrucco, P.P. and Quatraro F., 2008. The Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, International Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford: Blackwell Press (ISBN: 9781405131995).

5. Antonelli, C., Patrucco, P. P. and Quatraro, F., 2007. La Grande Onda Schumpeteriana alla fine del XX secolo. Transizioni Tecnologiche e Modelli Economici nel Caso Italiano, in Berta, G. (ed.), Una Trasformazione in Atto:Il Nord Italia. Annali della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli – 2007, Milano: Feltrinelli.

Books

1. Crespi, F. e Quatraro, F. (eds) (2015). Knowledge, innovation and systemic technology policy. Routledge: London and New York.

2. Francesco Quatraro, 2012, The Economics of Structural Change in Knowledge, New York and London, Routledge, (ISBN: 9780415565431; ISBN-10: 041556543X).

Working Papers

• • Shifting the Bias: How to Disentangle Creative Adoption from Radical Innovation. Empirical Evidence from Italy and the US, LEI & BRICK Working Paper, N.06/2007 (with Cristiano Antonelli).

  • Directed Technological Change and Total Factor Productivity. Effects and Determinants in a Sample of OECD Countries, 1971 – 2001, LEI & BRICK Working Paper, N.11/2007 (with Cristiano Antonelli).

  • Mind the Gap: Convergence of Technology and Technology of Convergence in Italian Regions, 1982-2001, LEI & BRICK Working Paper, N.03/2006.

Reports

• • A cross-regional analysis of technological performances in the Italian North-West, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica (Italie), 2006 (with Pier Paolo Patrucco et Davide Consoli).

  • The Economics of Network Services in Piedmont, Consorzio Servizi Informatici du Piémont, 2007 (with Cristiano Antonelli, Davide Consoli, Francesco Crespi et Pier Paolo Patrucco).