On January 22nd I have presented the report Investing in women: what women-led businesses in Italy and the UK need, written in collaboration with Paola Subacchi and funded by the UK Embassy in Rome.
The report can be downloaded here
The slides (in Italian) can be downloaded here.
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.
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
On the 13th of October I gave a talk at the ClusDev MED Workshop Utrecht University.
On the 7th of April I presented a paper on Italian industrial Clusters in Padua at the Workshop Evolving IDs within Global and Regional VCs.
The Italian blog WineNews has recently reported about the results of a research undertaken with Andrea Morrison on catch up in the wine industry.
I contributed to the Development Blog with an article on catch up in the wine industry.
The Italian newspaper Sole 24 Ore published an article on my book on Innovation and Catching Up: The changing geography of wine production.