Contacts:
Department of Economics,
University of Bergamo.
Via dei Caniana 2, 24127
Bergamo (IT)
Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin. Lungodora Siena 104, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A, 10153 Torino (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 (SECS-P/02) 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".
I am also Lecturer (Professore a contratto) in "Economics of Knowledge" at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin in the "Joint Degree in Economic Analysis and Policy" (EPOG-JM) in collaboration with Prof. Aldo Geuna.
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 French qualification for Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in Sciences Economiques (section 05) in 2024.
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 Prof. 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 Prof. Amélie Barbier-Gauchard to work on my own research project about "European challenges in an evolutionary perspective". There I had the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Patrick Llerena, among the others.
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., 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
Borsato, A., & Lorentz, A. (2023). The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI. Research Policy, 52(10), 104873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104873
