Roberto Antonietti è Professore Associato di Politica Economica presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali “Marco Fanno”. Insegna Economia Internazionale, Economics of Innovation e Economic Globalization and Human Rights. I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano principalmente l’economia regionale e urbana, in particolare la geografia dell’innovazione vista da un approccio evolutivo, l’economia delle multinazionali e degli investimenti diretti esteri e l’economia e dell’innovazione. Ha pubblicato numerosi articoli su riviste nazionali e internazionali.
Centri di ricerca di appartenenza
Centro inter-universitario “Sustainability, Environmental Economics, and Dynamics Study” (SEEDS), coordinato da Università degli Studi di Ferrara.
Centro studi di economia e tecnica dell’energia “Giorgio Levi Cases”, Università di Padova.
Centro di Studi Regionali (CISR) “Giorgio Lago”, Università di Padova.
Progetti di ricerca
PRIN-MIUR 2001 Infrastructures, competitiveness and levels of governance: knowledge and development in the new economy.
PRIN-MIUR 2003 Dynamic capabilities between firm organization and local production systems.
PRIN-MIUR 2005 International fragmentation and local development: interpretative models and policyscenarios.
PRIN-MIUR 2007 Emerging economic regional powers and local systems of production: new threats or new opportunities?
INVALSI – FINVALI 2005 Project on “Metodologie per il monitoraggio di azioni valutative e innovative”. Member of the research team coordinated by Consorzio Interuniversitario Alma Laurea on the specific project “ALMA DIPLOMA e la valutazione della scuola secondaria superiore: un progetto sperimentale”, coordinator: Prof. Andrea Cammelli.
IRER Lombardia – Research project (2007-2009) on “Il capitale umano in Lombardia – III fase”, project leader: Federica Ancona.
PRIN-MIUR 2010-11 Climate changes in the Mediterranean area: evolutionary scenarios, economic impacts, mitigation and technological innovation policies. R
OPENLOC 2008-2012 Public policies and local development: innovation policy and its effects on locally embedded global dynamics, Project financed by the Province of Trento.
Pubblicazioni rilevanti
Going beyond relatedness: regional diversification trajectories and Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in Italian regions, ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, 97(2), 2021 (con S. Montresor)
Social capital, resilience and regional diversification in Italy (with R. Boschma), Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming 2021
From FDI to economic complexity: a panel Granger causality analysis (with C. Franco), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 56, 2021.
The role of industry variety in the creation of innovative start-ups in Italy (with F. Gambarotto), Small Business Economics, 54, 561-573, 2020.
Regional diversification patterns and key enabling technologies (KETs) in Italian regions, PEEG Working Paper n. 19.28, Utrecht University, 2019.
Does energy price affect energy efficiency? Cross-country panel evidence (with F. Fontini), Energy Policy, 129, 896-906, 2019.
Governing offshoring in a stringent environmental policy setting: evidence from Made in Italy (with V. DeMarchi and E. Di Maria), Journal of Cleaner Production, 155(2), 103-113, 2017.
Flexible payment systems and labour productivity: evidence from Emilia Romagna manufacturing firms (with D. Antonioli and P. Pini), International Journal of Manpower, 38(4), 1-20, 2017.
Urban size and KIBS vertical disintegration: the case of Milan, European Planning Studies (with G. Cainelli), 24(12), 2241-2256, 2016.
Local market size, social capital and outsourcing (with M.R. Ferrante and R. Leoncini), Small Business Economics, 47(1), 243-260, 2016.
Spatial agglomeration, production technology and the choice to make and/or buy. Empirical evidence from Emilia Romagna machine tool industry (with M.R. Ferrante and R. Leoncini), Regional Studies, 48(2), 284-300, 2014.
Vertical disintegration and spatial co-localization: the case of KIBS in the metropolitan region of Milan (with G. Cainelli and C. Lupi), Economics Letters, 118(2), 360-363, 2013.
KIBS and the city: GIS evidence from Milan (with G. Cainelli), Economia Politica – Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 29(3), 295-308, 2012.
The role of spatial agglomeration in a structural model of innovation, productivity and export: a firm-level analysis (with G. Cainelli), Annals of Regional Science, 46(3), 577-600, 2011.
Peer-reviewed journals without Impact Factor
I luoghi fertili per l’innovazione: uno studio sulla localizzazione delle strat-up innovative in Italia (with F. Gambarotto), Economia e Società Regionale, 36(3), 2019.
IDE in entrata e nati-mortalità delle imprese manifatturiere in Italia (with R. Bronzini and Giulio Cainelli), Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, 16(2), 261-282, 2017.
Does local creative employment affect firm innovativeness? Microeconometric evidence from Italy, Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, 14(3), 5-30, 2015.
Banks, related variety and firms’ investments (with G. Cainelli, M. Ferrari and S. Tomasini), Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 8(1), 89-99, 2015.
Inward greenfield FDI and innovation (with R. Bronzini and G. Cainelli), Economia e Politica Industriale/Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 42(1), 93-116, 2015.
La formula dell’export per le province italiane: classe creativa + specializzazione manifatturiera (with G. Soggia), Economia e Società Regionale, 33(1), 125-143, 2015.
Spatial agglomeration, technology and the outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services: empirical insights from Italy (with G. Cainelli), International Journal of Services Technology and Management 10(2/3/4), 273-298, 2008.
Book chapters
Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions. In: I. Bernard, U. Grasjo, and C. Karlsson (Eds.), Unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship: the potential for increasing capacities, Edward Elgar, ISBN: 978 1 80037 123 1 (with C. Burlina), forthcoming 2021.
Infrastructure endowment, social capital and outsourcing: evidence from Emilia Romagna, Italy (with M.R. Ferrante and R. Leoncini). In: C. Karlsson, U. Grasjo and S. Wixe (eds.), Innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy: knowledge, technology and internationalization, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 310-330, July 2015.
Geographic concentration and vertical disintegration in KIBS: evidence from the metropolitan area of Milan (with G. Cainelli). In: Karlsson C., Johannson, B., Stough R. (Eds.), Entrepreneurial knowledge, technology and the transformation of regions, Abingdon, Routledge, 2012.
Urban density and vertical disintegration: the case of service firms in Milan. In: Di Maria E., Grandinetti R. e Di Bernardo B. (Eds.), Exploring knowledge intensive business services. Knowledge management strategies, Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan, 214-230, 2012.
Capitale creativo territoriale e capacità innovativa delle imprese italiane. In: Fratesi U. e Pellegrini G. (Eds.), Territorio, istituzioni e crescita, Milano, Franco Angeli, 147-162, 2013.
