Author Archive | Arianna Martinelli, Andrea Mina and Massimo Moggi

Technological revolutions mark profound transformations in socio-economic systems. They are associated with the diffusion of general purpose technologies that display very high degrees of pervasiveness, dynamism and complementarity. This paper provides an in-depth examination of the technologies underpinning the ‘factory of the future’ as profiled by the Industry 4.0 paradigm. It contains an exploratory comparative […]

This report aims to investigate the possibility that policies for encouraging industrial exploitation of basic research may hamper basic research itself. We focus on the case of top scientists as they are very active in producing academic knowledge and commercialising their research output. The report contains three main parts. First, we analyse the time evolution […]