Featured Presentations

Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need

Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need

Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need

On January 22nd I have presented the report Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need, written in collaboration with Paola Subacchi and funded by the UK Embassy in Rome. 

The report can be downloaded here

The slides (in Italian) can be downloaded here.

The Co-Evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems. Some evidence from developing countries.

The Co-Evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems. Some evidence from developing countries.

The Co-Evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems. Some evidence from developing countries.

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) Technologies and the MNE: the crisis of ownership competitive advantages?

(New) Technologies and the MNE: the crisis of ownership competitive advantages?

(New) Technologies and the MNE: the crisis of ownership competitive advantages?

On April 2019 I was invited to participate at a round table on the crisis of ownership competitive advantages at the 7th International Business Conference organized by the John Dunning Centre at the Henley Business School (University of Reading).

Here you can download the ppt of my speech.

Multinationals and regional development: Evidence from Europe

Multinationals and regional development: Evidence from Europe

Multinationals and regional development: Evidence from Europe

This a keynote speech I gave in January 2019 at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and in 2018 in May at Clustering at the Universidad de Valencia, in April at the Universidad de Seville, and last year in June  at the VIII Workshop on Institutions, Individual Behavior and economic Outcomes in Corte and at the Uddevalla Symposium, in October at the Regional Innovation Policies Conference in Santiago de Compostela and in November at the XV International Scientific Conference in Ostrava.

Here is the presentation

FDI, Global Value Chains, and Local Sourcing in Developing Countries

FDI, Global Value Chains, and Local Sourcing in Developing Countries

FDI, Global Value Chains, and Local Sourcing in Developing Countries

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