RESUME of SANDRO MONTRESOR (for a detailed CV, see https://sites.google.com/site/mon3sandro/)
AFFILIATION AND POSITIONS Full Professor of Economic Policy, Kore University of Enna, Faculty of Economics and Law. In the same University, he is Director of the School of Economics, Coordinator of the PhD programme in Economics, Business and Legal Studies, and Leader of the Kore Research Activities in Business and Economics (KoreBE). Sandro Montresor teaches “Economic and Legal Analysis of Innovation”, and “Environmental Economics and Law” in the PhD programme in Economics, Business and Legal Studies”, and “Economic Policy” and “Industrial Economics” in the BA in Business Economics.
SM currently acts also as a Member of the Research Centre of Economic Analyses and International Economic Development (CRANEC), Catholic University of Milan (IT); and of the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC) (IT).
Over the past twenty years SM worked in the following universities and research institutes: - University of Bologna (IT) (2005 - 2013): Associate Professor of Economics; Director of the International Master in Development, Innovation and Change (MiDIC); Lecturer of: “Economics”, “Economics of the Firm and Innovation”. - JRC-European Commission, Seville (ES) (2011-2013, on-leave from University of Bologna): Senior Research Grant-Holder, member of the team on Industrial Research and Innovation, and Leader of some Work-Packages; - University of Bologna (IT) (2000-2004): Research Assistant in Economics, Lecturer of: “Economics of industries and innovation”, “Economics and Business Strategies”. - National Research Council of Italy, CNR of Milan (IT) (1993-1999): Junior research scholar (different contracts) in the Institute on the Dynamics of Economic Systems (IDSE).
SM has also been: - External Member in viva committees at the Computense University of Madrid (ES), and at the Universities of Trento and Ferrara (IT). - Member of the selection committees for the recruitment of associate and assistant professors of Economics at the Universities of Catania, Padua, and Turin (IT); - Adviser for several public bodies, at the local, national and European level.
RESEARCH The current areas of specialization of SM are: - Economics of innovation and technological change; - Eco-innovations and green technologies; - Internationalisation and geography of innovation. SM has published more than 40 papers in international journals, such as Economic Geography, Research Policy, Technovation, Small Business Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Business Review, among others. He has also published a research monograph and an edited volume for Routledge. SM serves as associate editor of Industry and Innovation (Routledge) since September 2014, and as editors’ coordinator of the Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Economia Politica (Springer) since November 2014. He has co-edited a number of special issues, like on “Financing constraints R&D investments and innovation performances”, in Economics of Innovation and New Technology (Vol.25, n.3), with Bronwyn H. Hall, Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, and Antonio Vezzani, and on “Innovation, industry and the nature of the firm”, Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Economia Politica. With Michaela Trippl and Mario Davide Parrilli, he is currently editing a special issue on “Diaspora communities and their impact on innovation and entrepreneurship in host countries”, forthcoming in Regional Studies. In the past ten years, SM has coordinated, and participated to, international and national research projects, like: - 2011 – 2013, 3-year Research Project on Industrial Research and Innovation Analysis and Monitoring (IRIMA), financed by DG-RTD, European Commission (Local coordinator); - 2009 – 2012, 3(+1)-year International Research Project on “Public policies and local development: innovation policies and its effects on locally embedded global dynamics”, financed by the Italian Province of Trento as Bando Grandi Progetti 2006 (Local coordinator); In the past ten years SM has supervised PhD theses on the following topics: - “Immigrants and Knowledge Sharing within Industrial Districts: A Comparative Investigation of Italy and Spain” (Anna D’Ambrosio); - “The Interactive Drivers of Eco-innovations. An Investigation at Different Levels of Analysis” (Claudia Ghisetti); - “Evaluating the Additionality of Innovation Policy. An Investigation at Different Levels of Analysis” (Alberto Marzucchi); - “Productivity Spillovers and Foreign Direct Investments (FDI): Theoretical and Empirical Issues at Different Levels of Analysis” (Chiara Franco).
STUDIES SM got his BA in Economics and Business at the University of Verona (IT) (1992); MA in Economics at the University of Manchester (UK) (1996); PhD in Economic Structures and Behaviours, University of Bologna (1998).
SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (2016-2017):
Economics of innovation and technological change: - Sandro Montresor and Antonio Vezzani, 2016. “Intangible investments and innovation propensity. Evidence from the Innobarometer 2013”, Industry and Innovation, Vol. 23, n.4, pp. 331-352; - Bronwyn H. Hall, Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Sandro Montresor, and Antonio Vezzani, 2016. “Financing constraints, R&D investments and innovative performances: new empirical evidence at the firm level for Europe”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol.25, n.3, pp. 183-196;
Eco-innovations and green technologies - Alberto Marzucchi, Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor, Francesco Rentocchini and Ugo Rizzo, 2017.” ‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth”, Small Business Economics (forthcoming, forthcoming, DOI: DOI 10.1007/s11187-017-9939-6); - Alberto Marzucchi and Sandro Montresor, 2017. “Forms of knowledge and eco-innovation modes. Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms”, Ecological Economics, Vol. 131, 208-221; - Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor and Francesco Rentocchini, 2016. “CO2-reducing innovations and outsourcing: evidence from photovoltaics and green construction in North-East Italy”, Research Policy, Vol. 45, n.8, 1649–1659.
Internationalisation and geography of innovation - Anna D’Ambrosio, Sandro Montresor, Mario Davide Parrilli, and Francesco Quatraro, 2017. “Migration, communities-on-the-move and international innovation networks: An empirical analysis of Spanish regions”, Regional Studies (forthcoming); - Sandro Montresor and Francesco Quatraro, 2017. “Regional branching and Key Enabling Technologies. Evidence from European patent data”, Economic Geography, n.4, 367-396. - Davide Castellani, Sandro Montresor, Torben Schubert, and Antonio Vezzani, 2017. “Multinationality, R&D and productivity: Evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide”, International Business Review, n. 26, 405–416;