Business Linkages in Viet Nam
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.
Business Linkages in Viet Nam
Featured Publications
Chinese MNEs bridging technologies across home and host regions
Chinese MNEs bridging technologies across home and host regions
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.
Uganda STI Policy Review
Uganda – Science and Technology Policy Review
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.
Innovation in global value chains
Innovation in global value chains
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 MNEs’ shopping spree in advanced countries. How good it is for their innovative output?
Chinese and Indian MNEs’ shopping spree in advanced countries. How good it is for their innovative output?
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.
Innovation Trajectories in Developing Countries: Co-evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems
Innovation Trajectories in Developing Countries: Co-evolution of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems
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
Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities?
Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities?
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
Chinese investments in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations
Chinese investments in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations
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.
Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States
Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States
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.
Italian Industrial Districts Today: Between Decline and Openness to Global Value Chains
Italian Industrial Districts Today: Between Decline and Openness to Global Value Chains
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
Clusters in the Caribbean: Understanding their Characteristics, Defining Policies for their Development
Clusters in the Caribbean: Understanding their Characteristics, Defining Policies for their Development
With Elisa Giuliani, I have published a IADB Discussion Paper discussing clusters in the Caribbean. A desk review of 32 clusters distributed across the Caribbean identifying three groups of clusters are identified: rising, innovative, and sluggish.
The working paper is available here
Gradual catch up and enduring leadership in the global wine industry
Gradual catch up and enduring leadership in the global wine industry
In this article co-authored with Andrea Morrison, we investigate the different catch-up cycles in the global wine sector between 1960 and 2010. Changes in demand opened the first window of opportunity for latecomers, who gradually caught up via path-creating strategies. Incumbents maintained their leadership by aligning their wines to current demand patterns. The entry of China in the wine market can open up a new catch-up cycle.