Alessandra Scandura

Assistant Professor - tenure track (RTD-B), Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Turin, 100A Lungo Dora Siena, Turin (currently on maternity leave)

Research interests: Regional economic development, University-industry knowledge transfer, Green technologies, Entrepreneurship

Publications:

• Academic Inventors and the Antecedents of Green Technologies. A Regional Analysis of Italian Patent Data (2019) (with F. Quatraro). Ecological Economics 156 (2019) 247–263
• The strategic orientation of Universities in knowledge transfer activities (2019) (with P. Giuri, F. Munari, L. Toschi). Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 138 (2019): 261-278
• The role of scientific and market knowledge in the inventive process: evidence from a survey of industrial inventors (2019). The Journal of Technology Transfer, 44: 1029- 1069
• University-industry collaboration and firms’ R&D effort (2016). Research Policy, 45(9), 1907-1922.

Working papers:

• Regional patterns of unrelated diversification: the role of academic inventors (with F. Quatraro), Mimeo 2019 (submitted)
• Innovation in immigrant- and non-immigrant owned firms: the role of collaboration networks (with D. Bolzani), Mimeo 2019 (R&R at Journal of Technology Transfer )
• Organisational-level determinants of academic engagement with industry (2018) (with S. Iammarino). DRUID18 Conference Papers

Works in progress:

• New firms formation and knowledge spillovers: evidence from European regions (with A. Colombelli)
• The role of TTO governance structure for university technology transfer outcomes (with F. Munari and L. Toschi)