On the 23rd of September I participated at the Sharper Night in Pavia and talked about Green Windows of Opportunity for latecomer countries
Here you can see the video.
On the 13th and 14th of November I presented a paper at the Workshop on Green Windows of Opportunity in Emerging Countries: Towards a New Leadership in Green Transformation at Sino-Danish Center in Beijing. Here is the presentation.
On June 2018 I have participated at the LSE workshop on Multinationals, value chains and innovation in regions around the world. Here is the presentation.
On April I was invited at JRC in Seville to give a seminar. Here you can download the slides.
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
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.
In August I gave a lecture at CICALICS Academy in Beijing.
This paper explores the location strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging countries (EMNEs) in search for regional strategic assets.The empirical results suggest that EMNEs are attracted by the availability of technological competences only when their subsidiaries pursue more sophisticated and technology-intensive activities.
On 29th January I gave a key note speech at the 3rd Geography of Innovation Conference in Toulouse.
This paper investigates the effects on Chinese firms of Outward FDI into advanced European countries. The results provide robust evidence supporting the view that China‟s OFDI so far have had a positive impact on domestic activities in enhancing firms‟ productivity and scales of operation, measured by sales and employment. Featured in The Economist, September 12th 2015.
On September 9th I gave a talk at Nardone Family Seminar Series at the Center for Emerging Markets – NEU in Boston.
AIB Insights has published an article written in collaboration with Cristina Chaminade on Technology Driven FDI by Emerging Multinationals in Europe.