In collaboration with Davide Bonaglia, Rasmus Lema and Mercedes Menéndez I have contributed to the report on Reverse Dependency: Making Europe’s Digital Technological Strengths Indispensable to China.
Here you can download the full report.
A Working Paper on behalf of Compete Caribbean in collaboration with Elisa Conz available here.
Background paper for the 2023 UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report with Rasmus Lema is available for download here and here as UNU-MERIT Working Paper.
Background paper for the 2023 UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report with Rasmus Lema is available for download here and here as UNU-MERIT Working Paper.
This is the report I did for AICS Dakar on the social role of small enterprises in Senegal.
Here you can download the full report in English and here a short version in French.
New working paper with Vito Amendolagine and Riccardo Crescenzi.
Here you can download the WP
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 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.
Here you can download the WP
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
This working paper is part of a collaborative research effort of UNIDO and UNU‐MERIT. It has been commissioned as a background paper for the UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2016. In this study we undertake a systematic review of the literature on GVCs in developing countries to investigate if and how innovation has been undertaken at the local level.
This paper looks at the location choices of MNEs in the European Union (EU-25) regions and unveils that EMNEs follow distinctive location strategies. Their attraction into large regional markets is similar to AMNEs as well as their irresponsiveness to efficiency seeking motives. Conversely, the most knowledge-intensive investments respond mainly to strategic assets and the agglomeration of foreign investments in the same business functions.
In this paper we undertake an empirical analysis of Chinese and Indian FDIs in Europe to investigate their identity and characteristics and the association between these features and their international business strategies. We exploit a dataset at the level of the investing firms. In relation to mode of entry, we find that the greenfield is a more likely option for large-sized companies, and that weak propensity for innovation is associated with a low probability to enter through a merger or acquisition. A high propensity for innovation is related to asset-seeking FDI, while high profitability is needed to invest in the core EU countries.