PUBLICATION | 2026 European Parliament REPORT on Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation The Global Gateway initiative, launched in December 2021 with a €300 billion budget, is positioned as the EU’s flagship programme to promote sustainable, high‑quality infrastructure worldwide and to strengthen the Union’s geostrategic influence. While...
PUBLICATION | 2024 Economic complexity and the sustainability transition: A review of data, methods, and literature Economic Complexity (EC) methods have gained increasing popularity across fields and disciplines. In particular, the EC toolbox has proved particularly promising in the study of complex...
TOPIC / TOOL | 15 May 2026 Food crises and food and nutrition security Developing and improving the knowledge base to inform the EU response to food crises and the coordination of international action.
PUBLICATION | 2021 Is Export a Probe for Domestic Production? Recent works leverage export data to assess country production structure and ultimately country relative competitiveness. These works mostly rely only on the exported part...
PUBLICATION | 2015 Financing constraints, R&D investments and innovative performances: new empirical evidence at the firm level for Europe. Economic of Innovation and New Technology. Vol. 25, issue 3, pp. 183-196. DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2015.1076194 The relationship between financing constraints, investments in research and development (R&D) and innovative performances has recently attracted renewed attention in the aftermath of a financial crisis that has led...
PUBLICATION | 2015 Barriers to innovation and firm productivity. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp. 321-334. DOI:10.1080/10438599.2015.1076193 The paper analyzes the effect of financial, knowledge, demand, market structure and regulation barriers to innovation on firms' economic performance. It contributes to the literature on barriers to innovation by accounting...
PUBLICATION | 2015 Quantitative Analysis of Technology Futures: A Review of Techniques, Uses and Characteristics. Science and Public Policy, forthcoming. DOI:10.1093/scipol/scv059 A variety of quantitative techniques have been used in the past in future-oriented technology analysis (FTA). In recent years, increased computational power and data availability have led...
PUBLICATION | 2016 Multilevel heterogeneity of R&D cooperation and innovation determinants Eurasian Business Review. DOI:10.1007/s40821-015-0041-1 Assessing the impact of public support to innovation on R&D collaboration may require a more complex multilevel design, that describes the likely correlation present among firms characteristics...
PUBLICATION | 2016 Innovation and firm growth: Does firm age play a role? Research Policy, Vol. 45, pp. 387– 400. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2015.10.015 This paper explores the relationship between innovation and firm growth for firms of different ages. We hypothesize that young firms undertake riskier innovation activities which may...
PUBLICATION | 2016 My First Employee: An Empirical Investigation. Small Business Economics, forthcoming. DOI:10.1007/s11187-016-9748-3 The challenge for solo entrepreneurs to add their first employee is arguably the single biggest growth event facing any growing firm. To understand how this event affects...
