In this article co-authored with Rasmus Lema and Padmashree Sampath, we investigate how combining global value chain and innovation system approaches can help to foster an understanding of the possible trajectories that learning and innovation may take in developing countries.
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On June 2018 I have participated at the LSE workshop on Multinationals, value chains and innovation in regions around the world. Here is the presentation.
New Voxeu.org column with Vito Amendolagine, Andrea Presbitero and Marco Sanfilippo on how the entry and upgrading of low-income countries in Global Value Chains can offer an additional advantage in maximising the potential spillovers from FDI. See also the post on the LSE Blog on Global Investments and Local Development.
With Valentina De Marchi and Elisa Giuliani I published an article in the European Journal of Development Research. The paper offers s a systematic review of the literature on developing country GVCs to investigate the learning channels used by local firms, both within (firm level, collective level) and outside of these value chains (i.e. external sources of learning), and the extent to which this activity promotes innovation.
Here there is a free to view link to the article
With Vito Amendolagine, Andrea Presbitero and Adnan Seric I published an IMF Working Paper on whether and how the participation and position in global value chains of host countries is associated with local sourcing by foreign investors in 19 Sub-Saharan African countries and Vietnam.
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In December I was invited to lecture at the Master of International Cooperation and Development at the Mid Western University in Kathmandu.
Here are the slides of my lectures
My paper co-authored with Vito Amendolagine, Andrea Presbitero and Marco Sanfilippo was awarded the prize for the best paper in the track International Business and Economic Geography at EIBA in Milano. It was also presented last year in June at the Sase Conference in Lyon, in October at Globelics in Athens and SIE in Cosenza, in December at the Global Production Networks in Singapore, in February at the Geoinno2018 in Barcelona and in March at Centro Rossi Doria in Roma.
Here is the presentation
On the 30th of June I presented a paper co-authored with Elisa Giuliani at SASE Conference in Lyon. This is a chapter in the book on Local Cluster in Global Value Chains edited by Maria Chiarvesio, Valentina De Marchi and Gary Gereffi.
Here is the presentation.
On 28th February I gave a lecture in the course organised by UNU-Merit in Lima on The design and evaluation of innovation policy.
Here it is the presentation.
On 29th November I was invited to a workshop at the German Development Institute on Upgrading in Global Value Chains in Developing and Emerging Countries.
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The Innovation Systems (IS) literature tends not to emphasize the crucial impact of international knowledge and innovation exchange and collaboration through, for example, inter-firm and intra-firm networks and Global Value Chains (GVC). In developing countries this aspect is crucial, with integration in GVC playing a growing and very important role in accessing knowledge and enhancing learning and innovation.
In August I gave a lecture at CICALICS Academy in Beijing.