- 7/2024 – at present: 15-month Research Project [contracted by the PRIN2022 Extended Partnership Project “Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable” (GRINS)] on “Surveying Firms’ Innovation for the Circular Economy: a testbed survey of four Italian regions” (SurFICE).
>> Principal Investigator.
- 10/2023 – at present: 2-year National Research Project (PRIN2022) on “The geography of the “twin transition”: mapping the regional combination of the green and the digital transition” (GEOTWIN).
>> Principal Investigator of the National Project.
- 2022 – at present: 3-year Doctoral Research Project on “The twin-transition geography: green & digital transitions across heterogeneous regions”, awarded upon peer-review selection within the National Doctoral Program in Sustainability and Climate Change (IUSS Pavia).
>> Supervisor of the selected Ph.D student
- 2022 – 2023: PNRR Research Project within the “PRO3 joint program of Italian Schools of Advanced Studies”, on “When green meets digital: understanding the “twin” transition in the economy and society (GREEN-DIGIT)”.
>> Principal investigator for the GSSI unit in the research network.
- 2022 – 04/2024 (concluded because of affiliation change): 3-year PNRR Research Project within the “Mission Education and Research” for the Creation of Innovation Ecosystems, on “Vitality – Ecosystem for Innovation, Digitalisation and Sustainability for a Diffused Economy”.
>> Member of the GSSI unit in the research network.
- 2021 – (concluded because of affiliation change): 4-year Research Project SICURA financed by the Italian Department of Economic Development for the creation of a Hub for Emerging Technologies based in L’Aquila.
>> Co-principal investigator for the GSSI unit in the research network.
- 2018 – 2021: 3-year International Research Project “I_KNOW - Interregional Key Networking Open Innovation empowerment”, financed by the European Regional Development Fund:
>> Reference for the Kore University of Enna, as member of the Scientific Committee.
- 2011 – 2013, 3-year Research Project on Industrial Research and Innovation Analysis and Monitoring (IRIMA), financed by DG-RTD, European Commission;
>> Coordinator of different Work-Packages for the IRI Action at JRC-IPTS.
- 2009 – 2012, 3(+1)-year International Research Project on “Public policies and local development: innovation policies and its effects on locally embedded global dynamics”, financed by the Italian Province of Trento as Bando Grandi Progetti 2006;
>> Coordinator of the University of Bologna Research Unit.
- 2009 – 2010, 1-year International, Inter-University Cooperation Project for “International mobility of students and researchers within the MiDIC master”, co-financed by Italian Ministry of Education and Research in the financial year 2008;
>> Coordinator for the University of Bologna.
- 2007 – 2009, 2-year National Research Project on “Emerging economic regional powers and local systems of production: new threats or new opportunities?”, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research as PRIN 2007-2009;
>> Member of the University of Bologna Research Unit (national coordination unit).
- 2005 – 2007, 2-year National Research Project on “Fragmentation and local development: interpretative models and economic policy scenarios”, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research as PRIN 2005-2007;
>> Member of the University of Bologna Research Unit (national coordination unit).
- 2003 – 2005, 2-year National Research Project on “Dynamic capabilities between firm organisation and local systems of production”, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research as PRIN 2003-2005;
>> Member of the University of Bologna Research Unit (national coordination unit).
- 2000 – 2002, 2-year National Research Project on “Infrastructures, Competitiveness and Governance Levels: Knowledge and Development of the New Economy”, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research as PRIN 2000-2002;
>> Member of the University of Bologna Research Unit (national coordination unit).
- 1999 – 2002, European Project Deeds IST-1999-29035, “Digital Economy: Policy Exchange and Development for SMEs”;
>> External researcher.
- 1998 – 2000, European Project on “The impact of EU regulation on innovation of European industry: Regulation and innovation in the area of end-of-life vehicles, DG JRC-IPTS”, European Commission;
>> Member of the IDSE-CNR Research Unit.