Current working topics: Circular (Bio)Economy innovation and technologies; Digital-Green twin transition; Critical Raw Materials, Innovation and Development; Sustainable transition and productivity effects; Innovation networks.

• Public Green Demand and Green Innovation: Evidence from US Firms (with Orsatti, G., Scandura, A.; Accepted for publication in Eurasian Business Review)

• Green-tech transition beyond regional borders: the role of embodied green knowledge flows (with Montresor, S., Fatikhova, A.: R&R)

• Green diversification, global knowledge sourcing and local skill composition: evidence from the US (with Bergamini, E., Orsatti, G., Quatraro, F., Scandura, A.; R&R)

• Critical Raw Materials and Innovation: evidence from Top Corporate R&D investors (with Orsatti, G., Quatraro, F., Rentocchini, F..; preparing for submission)

• Scientific collaborations and regional technological leadership: European evidence from the Circular Bioeconomy domain (with Coda Zabetta, M., Quatraro, F., Scandura, S.; R&R)

• Agglomeration and regional technological diversification: the role of technological proximity on firm performances (with Dughera S.. Quatraro F., Tomas-Porres, J.; Analysis)

• Women, STEM, and entrepreneurship: the role of university climate (with Colombelli, A.; preparing for submission)

• Fusillo, F., Manera, M., Orsatti, G., Quatraro, F. and Rentocchini, F. (2025). The exposure of EU inventive efforts to critical raw materials: evidence from an AI based patent indicator, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Seville, 2025, JRC141261, https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC141261

• Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F., Santhià, C. (2025). Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter?. Regional Studies, 59 (1), DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2024.2329255

• Fusillo, F., Nenci, S., Pietrobelli, C., Quatraro, F. (2024). Co-evolutionary patterns of GVC-trade and knowledge flows in the mining industry: Evidence from Latin America. Industrial and Corporate Change, 33 (4), 1011–1036, DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtae002

• Fusillo, F., Montresor, S., Burlina, C., Palma, A. (2024). Regional technological diversification and the global network of embodied R&D: evidence from the exposure of European regions. Regional Studies, 58 (7), 1410-1424, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2023.2269205

• Antonelli, C., Fusillo, F. (2024). The limited transferability of knowledge, patent costs and total factor productivity: European evidence. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 49, 1719–1736, DOI: 10.1007/s10961-023-10057-3

• Fusillo, F. (2023). Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents. Research Policy, 52 (4), DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104727

• Fusillo, F., Montresor, S., Vittucci Marzetti, G. (2023). The global network of product-embodied R&D flows: Have national boundaries really faded away?, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 68, 43-61, DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2023.10.001 

• Antonelli, C., Fusillo, F. (2023). Are ideas getting cheaper? The European evidence. Industrial and Corporate Change, 32 (4), 901-929, DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtac064

• Fusillo, F., Consoli, D., Quatraro, F. (2022). Resilience, skill endowment and diversity: evidence from US Metropolitan Areas. Economic Geography, 98 (2), 170-196, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2021.2008797

• Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F. and Usai, S. (2022). Going Green: The dynamics of green technological alliances. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 31 (5), 362-386, DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2020.1799143

• Consoli, C., Fusillo, F., Orsatti, G., and Quatraro, F. (2021). Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Industry and Innovation, 28 (8), 1017-1045, DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2021.1904842

• Ciffolilli, A., Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F., Scandura, A. (2025). The geography of knowledge networks for the circular bioeconomy: evidence from collaborative research projects across EU regions, in: Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy. L. Molden, D. Modic, E. Rasmussen, S. Jakobsen and W. Vanhaverbeke (Eds.) Elgar (2025). ISBN: 9781035307951

• Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F. (2023). Circular Economy Transition and Recombinant Dynamics in European Regions: The Role of Localized Knowledge and Digital Technological Complementarities, In: CITIES AND REGIONS IN TRANSITION. R. Capello, A. Conte (Eds.) FrancoAngeli (2023). ISBN: 9788835152811 

• Fusillo, F., Quatraro, F., Santhià, C. (2021). The geography of circular economy technologies in Europe: evolutionary patterns and technological convergence, In: Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy. S. Jakobsen, T. Lauvås, F. Quatraro, E. Rasmussen and M. Steinmo (Eds.). Elgar (2021). ISBN: 9781800373082

• Consoli, D., Fusillo, F., Orsatti, G., and Quatraro, F. (2020). Competenze, de-routinizzazione e tecnologie digitali: un'analisi empirica delle aree metropolitane degli Stati Uniti, In: Oltre le crisi. Rinnovamento, ricostruzione e sviluppo dei territori. M. G. Brandano, A. Faggian and G. Urso (Eds.). FrancoAngeli (2020). ISBN: 9788835104544