The geography of acquisitions and greenfield investments: firm heterogeneity and regional institutional conditions
New working paper with Vito Amendolagine and Riccardo Crescenzi.
Here you can download the WP
in Featured Publications, Working Papers Tags: Cross-border acquisitions, FDI, Innovation, Multinationals
New working paper with Vito Amendolagine and Riccardo Crescenzi.
Here you can download the WP
in Books, Featured Publications, Publications Tags: China, FDI, Innovation
With Vito Amendolagine and Xiaolan Fu I have contributed to the Oxford Handbook of China Innovation with a chapter on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Innovation (if you don’t have access and would you like to read the chapter, please send me an email).
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: MNEs
Published in Applied Economics with Vito Amendolagine & Lucia Piscitello.
Here you can read the article.
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles, Publications
Published in Industrial and Corporate Change with Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli and Antonio Vezzani. A summary of the article is available in the LSE Blog on Global Investments and Local Development.
Here you can read the article and here you is the post
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: Global Value Chain, Industrial policy, Multinationals
The editorial article of a special issue on GVC oriented policy in the Journal of International Business Policy with Ari Van Assche and Carlo Pietrobelli.
Here you can download the article and here the special issue.
Here you can read the article in Italian.
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: FDI, Green FDI, Multinationals
An article with Vito Amendolagine and Rasmus Lema published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
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in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: Catch up, China, Green Windows of Opportunities, Renewable Energies, Wind Energy
A new article with Rasmus Lema and Xiaolan Fu introducing a Special Section on green windows of opportunity for latecomer development in renewable energies. A short article is available in the UN IATT Report for the STI Forum 2021 and a box is included in the UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2021.
Here you can download the open access article
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles, Publications Tags: Business Linkages, Global Value Chain, OECD, Small and Medium Enterprises, Vietnam
I have contributed at the OECD Review of SME and Entrepreneurship Policy of Viet Nam with a chapter on Business Linkages.
Here you can download the chapter.
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: China, Innovation, MNEs, Multinationals
A chapter with Amendolagine, Giuliani & Martinelli in Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms edited by Maureen McKelvey & Jun Jin for Edward Elgar.
The chapter can be download here.
in Featured Publications, Publications, Working Papers Tags: Africa, Innovation, Innovation Systems
I have contributed to the chapters on the agri-food industry and on the ICTs sector in the UNCTAD recently published Uganda STI Policy Review.
The full report can be downloaded here.
in Featured Publications, Journal Articles Tags: Developing Countries, Global Value Chain, Innovation, Innovation Systems
With Rasmus Lema and Carlo Pietrobelli I have contributed to the Handbook on Global Value Chains with a chapter presenting a new conceptual framework for investigating how GVCs and ISs jointly contribute to innovation in developing countries. It can be downloaded here.
in Journal Articles Tags: Africa, Global Value Chain, Multinationals, Vietnam
This paper, co-authored with Vito Amendolagine, Andrea Presbitero and Marco Sanfilippo and published in World Development, investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors in 19 Sub-Saharan African countries and Vietnam. The article is open source and can be downloaded here.