A new UNUMerit WP on Global Value Chains (GVC) and innovation in the ICTs industry 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 download the WP and here you can read the post
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 box about the article is included in the UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2021.
Here you can download the open access article
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chinese and Indian multinationals are continuously expanding their operations in Europe and the USA through cross-border acquisitions (CBAs), with the aim of tapping into international knowledge located in target firms and innovative hubs. In this article published in the Journal of Economic Geography with Amendolagine, Giuliani and Martinelli, we look into the innovative impacts that CBAs have on the acquiring multinational enterprises.
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.
Free download here
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 I have contributed to this book edited by Jan Drahokoupil and published by ETUI with a chapter on Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in the European Union.
Here you can download the full book and here is the link to my chapter.
With Winston Moore and Andrea Presbitero I have contributed to this book with a chapter on The Gender Gap in the Caribbean: The Performance of Women-Led Firms. The paper shows that women-managed firms are in fact less productive than other comparable firms.
Here you can download our chapter and here is the link to an infographic.
With Elisa Giuliani, I have published a CERTeT WP on Italian industrial districts (IDs). In this paper we use the available empirical evidence on these recent transformations, and elaborate a novel typology of Italian ID organizational models (i.e. lowroad IDs, locally rooted GVC-led IDs, and outward oriented GVC-led IDs).
Here you can download the working paper