New post on the Sustainable Global Supply Chains blog on Global Value Chains and Innovation in the IT industry with Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli & Antonio Vezzani.
Here is the link.
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.
On December the 10th I participated at the panel organized by JRC in Seville at the ESASTAP Science Forum South Africa 2020
Here you can download the program.
On the 6th of November 2020 I participated at an online conference organized by the Bank of Lithuania, talking about Innovation in Global Value Chains and I also was part of a panel discussing about The future of investments and innovation.
Here you can download the slides. Here is the video of the conference.
I have been interviewed by Società Italiana degli Economisti on the impact of Covid-19 on Global Value Chains. Here you can see the video.
Here is my interview on my paper on local sourcing in developing countries, published in World Development.
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.
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.
On May 2019 I presented a paper on the co-evolution of GVCs and Innovation Systems at the ICC -Tsinghua University Conference held in Beijing. I also presented the same paper at SASE Conference at the New School in New York in June.
Here is my presentation.
New post on the LSE Blog on Global Investments and Local Development with Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Rasmus Lema.