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Aldo Geuna

Aldo Geuna

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  • Innovation, Equity, & The Future of Prosperity

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Aldo Geuna is an economist interested in the economics of science, innovation, and technology. His core research area is the socio-economic analysis of university research behaviour and its links to innovation and economic growth.

A Full Professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti De Martiis, University of Torino, Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and Senior Research Associate at the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, he has published several books and articles in refereed journals in the area of economics of science, economics of innovation and science and technology policy. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Italian Economic Journal, the Journal of Technology Transfer, Research Policy and Sustainability. He has been a member of various scientific committees, expert groups, and panels in Italy, Sweden, the UK as well as for the OECD, the National Academies (US) and the EU. He has been an invited speaker in various European countries, the US, Canada, China, and Korea. He taught as an invited visiting professor in Chile, France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi and has been Visiting Fellow at SIEPR, Stanford University, Senior Lecturer at SPRU, the University of Sussex, Senior Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute and Research Fellow at BETA, Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg).

Relevant Publications

  • with B Lepori and A, Mira) ‘Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European universities’ PLoS ONE Vol. 14(10): e0223415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223415, 2019.

  • (with A. Fernández-Zubieta and C. Lawson) ‘Productivity Pay-offs from Academic Mobility: Should I stay or should I go?’, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol 25, pp.91-114, 2016.

  • (with I.M. Bodas Freitas and F. Rossi) ‘Finding the Right Partners: Institutional and Personal Modes of Governance of University-Industry Interactions’, Research Policy, Vol. 42, pp. 50-62, 2013.

  • (with B. Martin) ‘University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison’, Minerva, Vol. 41, pp.277-304, 2003.

  • The Economics of Knowledge Production: Funding and the Structure of University Research, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999

Institution

  • Collegio Carlo Alberto
  • University of Torino

Department

Department of Economics Cognetti de Martiis

Education

  • PhD Economics, University of Maastrich (NL)

Country

  • Italy

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