On April I was invited at JRC in Seville to give a seminar. Here you can download the slides.
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
In October I was invited to take part at the round table on Becattini’s Legacy: Industrial Districts and Clusters organized by the Società Italian degli Economisti in Cosenza.
Here is my intervention
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 the 19th of June with Elisa Giuliani we presented a paper co-authored with Daniele Guariso e Federica Neri at the workshop on Rising Powers and Labour Standards in Global Production Networks at the University of Manchester.
Here is the presentation.
On 22nd of March I participated at a seminar on Investment and labour strategies of Chinese multinational companies in Europe jointly organized by ETUI and industriAll.
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.
Download here the presentation.
On 17th March I gave a seminar at IKE Innovation, Knowledge and Economic Dynamics Research Group – Aalborg University. The paper was previously presented also at the SIEPI Conference in Palermo, at GREDEG in Nice, at CICALICS Workshop in Beijing, at the 10th China Goes Global Conference in Macerata, at the workshop “Creating Leading Edge Technical Competencies in Chinese Companies – Innovation and Globalization” at the University of Gothenburg and at UNUMerit in Maastricht.
On 22nd of November in Bridgetown – Barbados – I participated in a round table about clusters in the Celebration & Stocktaking Event organised by Compete Caribbean.
Here you can download the final report on Clusters in the Caribbean.
On the 13th of October I gave a talk at the ClusDev MED Workshop Utrecht University.