- 22 – 23 September 2025, Voss PhD Symposium, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Voss (Norway).
>> Keynote speech on “Where bytes meet watts: Mapping the geography of the Twin Transition”.
- 14 – 15 November 2024, EPOL’s 40th Anniversary Conference, “Innovation, Sustainability,
and Insitutions”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (Italy)
>> Invited concluding remarks of the session “Innovation and Development”.
- 11 November 2024, 2024 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics: Sustainable Territories, Barcelona (ES).
>> Invited speech on “Combining digital and green technologies: how to close the gap between regions and the frontier?”
- 12 April 2024, Inauguration of the 2024-2025 academic year of the Kore University of Enna.
>> Lectio Magistralis on: “Innovation for sustainability. New challenges for firms and territories”.
- 31 October 2023, Workshop on “Creation of shared value in the territories: research, innovation and sustainability” within the 100 Anniversary of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), L’Aquila.
>> Invited speech on “Emerging Digital Technologies and Environmental Sustainability: businesses and territories”.
- 23 May 2023, University of Bologna Workshop on “The Use of Patents in Economic Research”
>> Invited speech on “Regional green-tech diversification and inter-regional green knowledge flows”.
- 28 April 2022, RSA Cities, Regions and Sustainability Transitions (CReST) (virtual event);
>> Invited speech on “The geography of green and digital technologies: what’s beyond relatedness?”
- 23 November 2021, Workshop on “Assessing regional competences and inter-regional collaborations in research and innovation”, Polytechnic University of Le Marche (Ancona)
>> Invited speech on ““With no siblings, but with home”: single patent-class inventions (SPIs) and regional technological diversification”.
- 18 December 2020, SEEDS Annual Workshop (virtual event);
>> Invited speech on: “Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: Does the digital transformation meet the green transition?”
- 10 October 2019: OECD Spatial Productivity Lab; Spatial productivity for regional and local development - 5th meeting, OECD Venice Office, c/o Fondazione di Venezia (Italy);
>> Invited speech on: "Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: evidence from Spanish regions".
- 7 June 2019: International Workshop on the “The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Employment, Global Value Chains and Sustainable Development”, Saint Jean d’Angely Campus, Université Côte d’Azur (France);
>> Invited speech on: “Green regional development in times of Industry 4.0: The role of KETS and MNEs”.
- 10 October 2018: Kick-off meeting of the International Project “I_KNOW, - Interregional Key Networking Open Innovation empowerment”;
>>Invited roundtablespeech on:“Open Innovation approach, sectors environmental, sustainability and the quality of life and human health, best practices and success cases start-up”.
- 20 – 21 September 2018: Research Workshop on The Geography of Innovation, Environment and Resilience, University of Turin (Italy);
>> Invited speech on: “Regional diversification patterns and Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in Italian regions”.
- 8 September 2018: SummerSchool on: “Innovation, Institutional Change and Intellectual Property Rights”, University of Bologna (Italy);
>> Invited roundtable speecheson: “Theories and Facts Supporting Industrial and Innovation Policies”; “Varied perceptions of innovation and IPR at the firm level”
- 15 March 2018: Workshop on: “Smart Specialization Strategy: Measuring S3, theory and practice”, Polytechnic University delle Marche, Ancona (Italy);
>> Invited speech on: “Green technologies and S3: a European patent-based analysis of the intertwining of technological relatedness and Key-Enabling-Technologies (KETs)”.
- 25 October 2017: 9th IRIMA Workshop on: “Intangible investments for competitiveness: micro-macro evidences”, European Commission, Bruxelles;
>> Invited speech on: “Intangibles and innovation across the EC Innobarometers: methodological issues and empirical evidence”.
- 6 October 2017: Inaugural Workshop of the Global Studies International PhD Program, University of Urbino, Carlo Bo’ (Italy);
>> Invited commentary on: “Innovation between firms and locations”.
- 11 November 2016: II International Workshop of Kore Business & Economics (KoreBE) on “Local resources for tourism: from impact to growth”, Kore University of Enna (Italy);
>> Final key-note speech on: “Innovation as a resource for tourism”.
- 10-12 July 2015: International Summer School on Knowledge Dynamics, Industry Evolution, and Economic Development - KID 2014, CNRS, Nice (France);
>> Invited lecture on: “R&D and innovation modes: new micro-evidences and policy implications at the European level.”
- 5 March 2015: Inauguration of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Innovation Policy, University of Basilicata, Potenza (Italy);
>> Lectio Magistralis on: “R&D and innovation modes: new micro-evidences and policy implications at the European level”.
- 10 December 2013: II IRIMA Workshop on “Counting (and accounting) R&D and non-R&D intangibles, drivers of firm’s innovation and growth”, European Commission, Bruxelles (Belgium);
>> Invited speech on: “The Innobarometer 2013: Investing in Intangibles”.
- 14 – 15 June 2012: IPTS Steering Workshop on “Industrial Research and Innovation”, JRC-IPTS, European Commission, Seville (Spain);
>> Invited speech on: “Technological profile and innovation patterns of European top R&D investors”.
- 16 – 17 April 2012: Workshop for inaugurating the Academic Year 2011-2012 of the International Master in Development, Innovation and Change (MiDIC), University of Bologna (Italy);
>> Invited-speech on: “Corporate R&D and Innovation in Europe”.
- 22 – 23 October 2004: 45th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economists Society (Società Italiana degli Economisti SIE), University of Bologna (IT);
>> Invited speech on: “Learning and firm dynamics” (with Riccardo Leoncini).
- 16-17 December 2002: Workshop of the EC Project DEEDS “Digital Economy: Policy Exchanges and Development for SMEs” (DEEDS), Bruxelles (BE).
>> Invited speech on: “The Resorce-Capability-Competence approach: towards a system view of the firm” (with Alessandro Romagnoli).