Work in progress

Working papers:

Martinelli, A., Mazzei, J., & Moschella, D. (2022). Patent disputes as emerging barriers to technology entry?

empirical evidence from patent opposition (Working Paper No. 2022/12). Laboratory of Economics and

Management (LEM), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/2022-12.html


Martinelli, A., Nuvolari, A., Palagi, E., & Russo, E. (2022). Digitalization, copyright and innovation in the

creative industries: an agent-based model (Working Paper No. 2022/03). Laboratory of Economics and

Management (LEM), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/2022-03.html


Iori, M., Martinelli, A., & Mina, A. (2021). The direction of technical change in ai and the trajectory effects of

government funding (Working Paper No. 2021/41). Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM),

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/2021-41.html


Martinelli, A., & Romito, E. (2019). When authors become inventors: an empirical analysis on patent-paper pairs

in medical research (Working Paper No. 2019/32). Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM),

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/2019-32.html


Bekkers, R., Catalini, C., Martinelli, A., Righi, C., & Simcoe, T. (2017). Disclosure rules and declared essential

patents (Working Paper No. 23627). National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from http://www.nber.org/papers/w23627


Bekkers, R., Baron, J., Martinelli, A., Méniére, Y., Nomaler, O., & Pohlmann, T. (2014). Selected quantitative

studies of patents in standards (Working Paper No. 626). PIE/CIS, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

Retrieved from http://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/rs/handle/10086/26727


Cantner, U., Guerzoni, M., & Martinelli, A. (2012). Innovation and market dynamics: A two-mode network

approach to user-producer relation (Tech. Rep. No. 2012/09). Laboratory of Economics and Management

(LEM), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.lem.sssup

.it/WPLem/2012-09.html



Ongoing Research:

“From open warfare to strawman’s anonymity: Motives and strategies behind patent opposition at EPO”,

with R. Bekkers (Eindhoven University of Technology) and J. Mazzei (Scuola Sant’Anna)


“Academic Discontent, Breach of Academic Values, and Behavior Towards Publishers: Survey Evidence

on the use of Sci-Hub”, with Giulia Rossello (Scuola Sant’Anna)


“Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent

quality”, with J. Mazzei (Scuola Sant’Anna)


“COVID-19 emergency and on-line piracy: an empirical analysis”, with J. Mazzei (Scuola Sant’Anna),

A. Nuvolari(Scuola Sant’Anna) and J. Poort (IViR, University of Amsterdam)


“The double effect of Medicine Patent Pool on Generic Competition in the market for HIV drugs”, with

E. Romito and A. Mina (Scuola Sant’Anna)


“FDI and market entry: an empirical analysis using trademarks”, with E. Giuliani (University of Pisa)

and C. Castaldi (Utrecht University)


Book chapter on “Technological Trajectories” in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Industrial

Dynamics and Evolutionary Economics edited by U. Cantner, M Guerzoni, and S. Vannuccini