Contacts:
Department of Economics,
University of Bergamo.
Via dei Caniana 2, 24127
Bergamo (IT)
Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée,
Faculté des sciences économiques et de gestion,
University of Strasbourg.
61 Avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67000 Strasbourg Cedex (FR)
I am a Postdoctoral researcher in Economic Policy (SSD ECON-02/A) at the Department of Economics of the University of Bergamo, currently working with Prof. Elena Cefis on the project "Innovation, financial structure and resilience: the effects of the COVID crisis on the survival and performance of companies".
At the University of Bergamo, I am also tutor (Cultore della materia) in "Digital Transformation and Policies", "Economia e Politiche dell'Innovazione", and "Geoeconomia e Trasformazione Digitale", and member of the Center for Young and Family Enterprises (CYFE).
I am an Associate Researcher (membre associé) at the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) of the University of Strasbourg, University of Lorraine, CNRS.
I obtained the Italian Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale alle funzioni di professore universitario di II Fascia nel Settore Concorsuale 13/A2 - Politica Economica e nel Settore Concorsuale 13/A4 - Economia Applicata in 2026, and the French qualification for Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in Sciences Economiques (section 05) in 2024.
In 2026 I was awarded with E. Cefis by Prof. Maryann Feldman (ISS President) the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society 2026 Schumpeter Prize, in recognition our recent contribution on The direction of digital transformation: labor-saving versus time-saving trajectories in industrial dynamics.
I was awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus in 2021 with a Thesis on Secular Stagnation in the USA, after attending the Joint Doctoral Programme in Economics of the Tuscan Universities: University of Siena (Head Office), University of Pisa and University of Florence (Partner Universities).
From March 2021 to November 2022 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Strasbourg. My work was part of the ANR project on "Artificial Intelligence in the Scientific System: Diffusion and impacts" whose Principal Investigators were Stefano Bianchini, André Lorentz (University of Strasbourg) and Lorenzo Cassi (Paris School of Economics). Subsequently, from December 2022 to November 2024 I was awarded a postdoc position by ITI-MAKErS group coordinated by Amélie Barbier-Gauchard to work on my own research project about "European challenges in an evolutionary perspective".
I have been Visiting Researcher at the Business School of the University of Greenwich, at the Leeds University Business School, and at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR).
My research interests include: economics of innovation and technological change, time-saving technical change, evolutionary economics, agent-based modelling, industrial dynamics, economics of science, economics of data and AI, panel time-series econometrics.
Last publications:
Borsato, A., Cefis, E. (2026). The direction of digital transformation: labor-saving versus time-saving trajectories in industrial dynamics, Industrial and Corporate Change, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtag034 . Publication awarded with Schumpeter Prize
Borsato, A., Erasmo, V. & Lorentz, A. (2026). The University and the Prince: Public Funds Shaping University Trajectories. Ital Econ J. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-026-00372-7
Borsato, A., Erasmo, V. ( 2026). Balancing excellence and diversity in economics: rethinking research-funding allocation in the age of mainstream pluralism. J. Ind. Bus. Econ.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-026-00397-0
Borsato, A., Llerena, P. (2026). The US university-industry link in the R&D of AI: Back to the origins?. J Evol Econ 36, 17 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-025-00940-7
Borsato, A., Llerena, P. (2025). Inside the biotech: a dialogue between Rosenberg, Babbage, Smith, and Schumpeter. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10438599.2025.2526525?src=exp-la
Borsato, A., Lorentz, A. (2025). Public science vs. mission-oriented policies in long-run growth: An agent-based model. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2025.03.001
