Sandrine Labory
French; born in Hennebont (Francia) on 4 June 1969
Married, two children.
Home address:
Via Cavalcanti, 17D
50133 Firenze
tel. 055 582807
cell. 3282284101
Office:
Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Università di Ferrara
Via Voltapaletto, 11
44100 Ferrara
tel. 0532 455031
Fax. 0532 293294
email: sandrine.labory@unife.it
Current position:
Associate Professor
Education
1997: Ph.D. in Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1993: M.Sc. in Economics, University College London, London, UK
1992: BA in Economics and Maitrise de Sciences Economiques, joint degree between University of Middlesex, London and Université de Nantes, France
Research interests
Industrial economics and policy; structural change and industrial policy; production organisation and clusters; innovation policy at regional and national levels; firm organisation and market structure
Research projects
2017 – 2019: Member of the Research Group “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0: Upgrading Regional Capabilities for a Balanced Industrial Development and Growth Through Networks” (directed by Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath, UK), financed by the Regional Studies Association with a RSA EXPO Grant (1/9/2017–28/2/2019).
2018: Coordinator of a project on "Embedding, reshaping and creating global value chains", OECD, Paris and European Commission.
20154-16: Coordinator of a project on the evaluation of policies for emergency management and recovery after natural catastrophes, financed by the Emilia Romagna Region.
2012: winner of a grant provided by the University of Ferrara for "Internationalisation Initiatives".
2011: Coordinator of FAR project "Innovation, internationalisation and firm performance: implications in terms of industrial policy" (research group: Prof. L. Poma, Prof. G. Masino, Prof.ssa L. Ramaciotti, Dott. Giorgio Prodi, Domenico Berdicchia, Federico Frattini, Francesco Nicolli, Ugo Rizzo), University of Ferrara.
2010: Coordinator of FAR project "innovation dynamics for international competitiveness" (group: Prof. L. Poma, Prof. G. Masino, Dott. Giorgio Prodi, Domenico Berdicchia, Federico Frattini), University of Ferrara.
2010-11: study of upgrading policies for clusters in mature sectors (IRPET e Regione Toscana, Florence)
2011-2012: contribution to the writing of the Treccani Encyclopedia, dictionary of economics and finance.
2011: research contract for the Fondazione per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione, University of Florence, for the realisation of a research report on the support to university-industry relationships in order to boost local competitiveness.
2009: research for the Regional institute of economic planning of the Tuscan Region (IRPET) on the use of bibliometric data in innovation analysis; two applications tyo the Tuscan case.
2001-2003: coordinator of the Ferrara unit (WP3) of the European project PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and Measurement, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European programme 2000-29665 of the DG Information Society of the European Commission (http://www.intangability.com)
2001-2003: (local) coordinator of the European project "Study on the measurement of intangible assets and associated reporting practices", responsible Prof. S.Zambon, EU Call for Tender ENTR/01/054, contract FIF.20010720, European Commission.
2001-2003: IRPET, research project on the relationship between large firms and SME systems in the fashion sector in Tuscany.
1999-2000: Researcher at the University of Bergamo, Economics Department; research project on internal labour markets, firm organisation and performance, directed by Prof. R. Leoni.
1998-9: Regulatory Reform, Market Functioning and Competitiveness, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Centro Studi Confindustria and European Commission.
1997-9: Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
1995: Chargée d’Etudes, Economic service of the French Embassy in Tokyo, project on the automobile industry.
1990-1: Junior Research Fellow, Business Strategies Ltd., Economic consultant, London (project on the use of survey data in economic forecasts)
Current teaching activities
Analysis of productive sectors (Laurea magistrale)
Industrial policy for SMEs (Laurea magistrale)
Past teaching activities:
Industrial Policy and Sustainability
Applied economics
European economic policies
Accademic and institutional activities
From 2013, Coordinator of double degree programs (Dept of Economics and Management)
Member of the Erasmus Commission of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ferrara, from 2003
Member of the Ph.D. Commission of the Dept of Economics and Management (from 2003)
Current and past memberships of associations
RSA, Regional Studies Association
EUNIP, European Network of research on Industrial Policy
EARIE, European Association for Research on Industrial Economics
EEA, European Economic Association
SIEPI, Società Italiana di Economia e Politica Industriale
SIE Società Italian degli Economisti (Italian economists' Association)
AFSE (Association française de sciences économiques), French association of economics.
Refeering activities for the following journals:
Regional Studies
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Research Policy
International Journal of Industrial Organisation
Journal of Industrial Economics
Economia Politica
Revue d’Economie Politique
L'Industria
Revue d'Economie industrielle
Membership of Committees and Journal's Boards:
Member of the Board of Directors, RSA Europe (Regional Studies Association)
From 2017, member of the Scientific Board of the journal L'Industria
2003-17, member of the editing committee of the journal L'Industria
2009 - 13, member of the executive committee of the new journal European Review of Industrial Economics and Policy (created in 2010 from the collaboration of three national journals, Revue d'economie industrielle, L'Industria and Economia e Politica Industriale)
(http://revel.unice.fr/eriep/)
Prizes
1997, Young economist' prize of the EARIE association(European Association for Research on Industrial Economics, for a study on firm organisation and market performance in the case of Honda Motor Corp.
Presentations at conferences and workshops (main)
2020:
7 October: keynote speaker at the European Week of Regions (della Commissione europea), organizzata in webinar: sessione organizzata dalla Regional Studies Association (RSA) su “Are Policy Makers alone in charting recovery from crisis? How researchers can help?”
23-26 August: ERSA Conference, European Regional Studies Association (webinar), title of presentation: “Place-based industrial policy for less developed regions: smart specialisation and smart complementarity”
8 July, presentation at the Webforum on “A New European Industrial Strategy and the European Recovery program after the Covid-19 Crisis”, organized by the “Growth, Investment and Territory” group; title of the presentation: “Industrial Policy after the Covid Crisis: mobilising all levels of government for smart complementarity”
2019:
7-8 November: RegInnPol Conference (14th edition) Technological change, social innovation, and regional transformation, University of Florence, presentation: “Regional industrial policy in a multilevel governance framework in times of game-changing technological change”. Chair of the Session on “Analysis and evaluation of regional innovation policies”.
22 October: Seminar on “La “metamorfosi” del modello emiliano e il “nuovo” triangolo industriale”, University of Parma, Title of presentation: “Rivoluzione industriale e politica industriale: l’Emilia Romagna come laboratorio di azione a livello regionale” (Industrial revolution and industrial policy: the Emilia Romagna Region as a laboratory of actions at regional level).
18-19 October: International conference of the SISE (Italian Society of Economic History), University of Padova, presentation untitled: “La resilienza economica in prospettiva storica: quale lezione dal caso dell’Emilia-Romagna?” (Economic resilience in historical perspective; what are the lessons from the Emilia Romagna Region?), joint work with P. Bianchi (University of Ferrara), R. Giardino (Emilia-Romagna Region), A. Rinaldi and G. Solinas (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).
26 September: presentation of the book “Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0”, with Phil Tomlinson (University of Bath), at the Conference “Innovation for Industrial Transformation”, organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre's Directorate for Growth and Innovation in collaboration with the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation dell’OCSE, Seville, Spain.
13-14 September, Conference of the Association of neo-Latin Economists, presentation on "Industrial and Development Policies in Europe"
2018:
12 December: presentation of the experience of the Emilia Romagna Region in the definition and implementation of industrial policy at the Trade Union Congress workshop on ‘All Tomorrow’s Jobs’: launch of TUC report on the future of manufacturing employment, Trade Union Congress, Londra.
7 December: workshop MAKERS on “Industry 4.0: A transformative place-based policy” at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), organized by David Bailey (University of Birmingham) and Felice Simonelli (CEPS), Bruxelles, participation in the Panel “A transformative place-based policy”, with the DG Regio of the European Commission (Peter Berkowitz) and the OECD (Annalisa Primi).
25-27 October: Presentation of “The Political Economy of Industry” at the annual conference of the Italian Association of Economists (SIE), sessione A1 “A political approach to political economy”.
9 October: Speaker at the Week of Regions, Bruxelles, Session “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0”, organized by the RSA; title of presentation: “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0. The importance of extra-regional links for lagging regions”.
21 September: Seminar on Building, embedding and reshaping global value chains, OECD, Paris: presentation of “What policies, initiatives or programmes can support attracting, embedding and reshaping GVCs in regions?” as a keynote speaker.
12-13 July: Conference “Back on the Agenda? Industrial Policy Revisited”, Cambridge, UK, presentation of “Why is the Territorial Level the Most Appropriate for Industrial Policy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?” and “Enhancing Innovative Capabilities in Peripheral Regions: An Extra‐Regional Collaborative Approach to RIS3”, the latter with P. Tomlinson (University of Bath).
24 May: Presentation of “Medium and Long-Term Economic Consequences of Natural Disasters on Territories” at the 3rd EUSAIR (European Strategy of the Adriatic-Ionian Region) Forum, session on Territorial Resilience to Natural Disasters, Catania, Italy.
14-16 January, ReHi (RSA Research Network on Regional Economic and Policy History) Workshop on “A historical account of Regional Resilience”, Fryske Academy, Leeuwarden (Olanda); presentation untitled “Regional Resilience: lessons from historical analysis of industrial policy in the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy”.
2017:
25-26 April: Workshop on Interdisciplinary connections between history and regional studies (Rehi, RSA Research Network on Regional Economic and Policy History), UCL Bartlett School of Planning, London, discussant.
20 April: Collegio europeo Parma, Seminar / Lecture on European industrial policy, and presentation of "Industrial policies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" in the workshop “Strategic Sector of the European Union: Hard science and technology”.
23-25 March: Participation in the G7 Scientific Academies Meeting, Session on “New economic growth: the role of science, technology, innovation and infrastructure”, for the preparation of the Joint Statement n.3, Rome, Accademia dei Lincei.
2016:
5 October: Presentation on The importance of regional industrial development policies at the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in Trieste.
23-26 August 2016, European Regional Studies Association (ERSA) Congress, Vienna, Austria, presentation of “Governance, Agency and Regional Resilience: a case study of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy”.
3-6 April, Regional Studies Association (RSA) Conference, Graz, Austria, presentation of “Governance, agency and Regional Resilience”.
2015:
11-13 November: SEPIP (Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy) Conference, Istanbul Commerce University. Keynote speaker: presentation on “Industrial Policy and multilevel governance”.
15-17 June: Presentation od “Distinguishing between the Breadth and Depth of Knowledge Transfer Activities: the predominance of third mission motives for Italian academics”, http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/druid/registrant/index/papers, n. 2542, DRUID Conference at the Luiss University of Rome.
5-6 February: Conference Società italiana di economia e politica industriale (SIEPI) in Milan, IULM, presentation of “The institutional framework of industrial policy”.
2014
4-10 November: Conferences in Mexico, invited by Clemente Ruiz Duran (UNAM): Elementos para repensar le politica industrial en Mexico: 6 November (Marco institutional de politica industrial para el desarrollo de la empresa y la innovacion); 7 November (Los retos del crescimiento economico: nuevos enfoques para la politica industrial); 8 November, “Industrial policy beyond growth” at ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations).
13-14 June: Nice (France), "Managing the emergency: the case of the reconstruction of the school system in the ER region after the 2012 earthquake", conference Risques et incertitudes (Risk and Uncertainty), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
2013
17-18 October: Keynote speaker at the conference “Les relations entre la finance et l’industrie” (The relationships between Finance and Industry), Lyon, Université de Lyon 2, presentation on "Industrial change, financial system and sustainable industrial policy".
14-15 October: Presentation on “Smart growth: is industrial policy back on stage?”, at the Expert Workshop on Economic Policy Advice for the Quality of Growth, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
17-18 May, Organisation of a workshop on “Manufacturing renaissance? Structural changes and consequences for industrial economics”, at the University of Ferrara. Two presentations: “Structural transformations in industry and filieres” with P. Bianchi and “Structural transformations in clusters: the cases of biomedical and ceramics”, with G. Prodi.
4 February: Charles Babbage Seminar, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, participation in the panel discussions of the seminar by Patrizio Bianchi on “A New Approach to Industrial Policy”, with Ha-Joon Chang.
2012:
12 July East Forum Unicredit / OCSE Conference on “The Challenges to Economic Growth. New approaches to Industrial Policy”, Rome, invited as discussant.
19-21 June: DRUID conference, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) on “Innovation and Competitiveness. Dynamics of organizations, industries, systems and regions”; presentation of paper “How do the institutions involved in Scientific Collaboration deal with spatial and institutional distance? An analysis of co-authorships of scientific publications” (with Iorio R., D’Amore R.)
15-17 February: Industrial Policy Book workshop of ILO / UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland; presentation on “Industrial Policy in Western Europe” together with Patrizio Bianchi.
8-10 October, Incontri di Artimino du "Nuovo sviluppo industriale e politiche di sistema", presentation of work on the Mirandola biomedical cluster after the earthquake.
2011:
17-20 April, Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, presentation of paper on industrial policy after the crisis and the case of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
15-17 September, Annual conference of the Italian regional studies association, Turin; presentation of paper on industrial policy after the crisis and the case of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
20-21 October, Workshop on “Clusters in global value chains: what is the role of innovation systems?”, Orkestra, Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Deusto Foundation, San Sebastian, presentation of study on the Mirandola biomedical cluster.
3-5 October 2011, Gli Incontri di Artimino “Innovazione e trasformazione industriale dei territori nelle regioni europee” presentation on the upgrading of clusters in mature sector.
29 June 2011, Committee of the Regions meeting on Industrial competitiveness: Global challenges, regional responses (presentation of book on industrial policy after the crisis together with P. Bianchi)
2010
22-23 June 2010: XXII Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, Presentation on “The crisis and the recovery: do we need an Industrial Policy?”
2009
September, Annual conference of the journal L'Industria, Ferrara, presentation on sovereign wealth funds and state shareholding, together with Andrea Goldstein (OCSE)
7-9 November: conference of the 30th anniversary of the journal Revue d’Economie Industrielle, Nice, France; presentation of "30 years of industrial economics and policy viewed through the journal L'Industria"(with P. Bianchi and E. Pontarollo)
2008
June, DRUID Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
Presentation of paper: Iorio, Labory and Paci, “The determinants of research quality in Italy: empirical evidence using bibliometric data in the biotech sector”
2007
EUNIP 2007 Conference, Florence, presentation of:
- Bianchi – Labory: The Coherence of new industrial policies. A comparative analysis of some OECD countries
- Iorio – Labory – Paci: Research impact in the biotech sector: evidence from bibliometric data
AISSEC 2007 Conference, Parma, 21-23 June (XVIa conference) ; presentazione of "The Coherence of new industrial policies. A comparative analysis of some OECD countries" (Bianchi e Labory)
2006
EUNIP Conference 2006, June, Limerick, Ireland; presentation of “Industrial policy in an open and knowledge-based economy”
Proximity Conference 2006, Bordeaux, France, June, presentation of “The evolution of external linkages and relational density in the Tuscan Leather Industry” (with L. Bacci e M. Lombardi).
French; born in Hennebont (Francia) on 4 June 1969
Married, two children.
Home address:
Via Cavalcanti, 17D
50133 Firenze
tel. 055 582807
cell. 3282284101
Office:
Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Università di Ferrara
Via Voltapaletto, 11
44100 Ferrara
tel. 0532 455031
Fax. 0532 293294
email: sandrine.labory@unife.it
Current position:
Associate Professor
Education
1997: Ph.D. in Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
1993: M.Sc. in Economics, University College London, London, UK
1992: BA in Economics and Maitrise de Sciences Economiques, joint degree between University of Middlesex, London and Université de Nantes, France
Research interests
Industrial economics and policy; structural change and industrial policy; production organisation and clusters; innovation policy at regional and national levels; firm organisation and market structure
Research projects
2017 – 2019: Member of the Research Group “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0: Upgrading Regional Capabilities for a Balanced Industrial Development and Growth Through Networks” (directed by Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath, UK), financed by the Regional Studies Association with a RSA EXPO Grant (1/9/2017–28/2/2019).
2018: Coordinator of a project on "Embedding, reshaping and creating global value chains", OECD, Paris and European Commission.
20154-16: Coordinator of a project on the evaluation of policies for emergency management and recovery after natural catastrophes, financed by the Emilia Romagna Region.
2012: winner of a grant provided by the University of Ferrara for "Internationalisation Initiatives".
2011: Coordinator of FAR project "Innovation, internationalisation and firm performance: implications in terms of industrial policy" (research group: Prof. L. Poma, Prof. G. Masino, Prof.ssa L. Ramaciotti, Dott. Giorgio Prodi, Domenico Berdicchia, Federico Frattini, Francesco Nicolli, Ugo Rizzo), University of Ferrara.
2010: Coordinator of FAR project "innovation dynamics for international competitiveness" (group: Prof. L. Poma, Prof. G. Masino, Dott. Giorgio Prodi, Domenico Berdicchia, Federico Frattini), University of Ferrara.
2010-11: study of upgrading policies for clusters in mature sectors (IRPET e Regione Toscana, Florence)
2011-2012: contribution to the writing of the Treccani Encyclopedia, dictionary of economics and finance.
2011: research contract for the Fondazione per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione, University of Florence, for the realisation of a research report on the support to university-industry relationships in order to boost local competitiveness.
2009: research for the Regional institute of economic planning of the Tuscan Region (IRPET) on the use of bibliometric data in innovation analysis; two applications tyo the Tuscan case.
2001-2003: coordinator of the Ferrara unit (WP3) of the European project PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and Measurement, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European programme 2000-29665 of the DG Information Society of the European Commission (http://www.intangability.com)
2001-2003: (local) coordinator of the European project "Study on the measurement of intangible assets and associated reporting practices", responsible Prof. S.Zambon, EU Call for Tender ENTR/01/054, contract FIF.20010720, European Commission.
2001-2003: IRPET, research project on the relationship between large firms and SME systems in the fashion sector in Tuscany.
1999-2000: Researcher at the University of Bergamo, Economics Department; research project on internal labour markets, firm organisation and performance, directed by Prof. R. Leoni.
1998-9: Regulatory Reform, Market Functioning and Competitiveness, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Centro Studi Confindustria and European Commission.
1997-9: Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
1995: Chargée d’Etudes, Economic service of the French Embassy in Tokyo, project on the automobile industry.
1990-1: Junior Research Fellow, Business Strategies Ltd., Economic consultant, London (project on the use of survey data in economic forecasts)
Current teaching activities
Analysis of productive sectors (Laurea magistrale)
Industrial policy for SMEs (Laurea magistrale)
Past teaching activities:
Industrial Policy and Sustainability
Applied economics
European economic policies
Accademic and institutional activities
From 2013, Coordinator of double degree programs (Dept of Economics and Management)
Member of the Erasmus Commission of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ferrara, from 2003
Member of the Ph.D. Commission of the Dept of Economics and Management (from 2003)
Current and past memberships of associations
RSA, Regional Studies Association
EUNIP, European Network of research on Industrial Policy
EARIE, European Association for Research on Industrial Economics
EEA, European Economic Association
SIEPI, Società Italiana di Economia e Politica Industriale
SIE Società Italian degli Economisti (Italian economists' Association)
AFSE (Association française de sciences économiques), French association of economics.
Refeering activities for the following journals:
Regional Studies
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Research Policy
International Journal of Industrial Organisation
Journal of Industrial Economics
Economia Politica
Revue d’Economie Politique
L'Industria
Revue d'Economie industrielle
Membership of Committees and Journal's Boards:
Member of the Board of Directors, RSA Europe (Regional Studies Association)
From 2017, member of the Scientific Board of the journal L'Industria
2003-17, member of the editing committee of the journal L'Industria
2009 - 13, member of the executive committee of the new journal European Review of Industrial Economics and Policy (created in 2010 from the collaboration of three national journals, Revue d'economie industrielle, L'Industria and Economia e Politica Industriale)
(http://revel.unice.fr/eriep/)
Prizes
1997, Young economist' prize of the EARIE association(European Association for Research on Industrial Economics, for a study on firm organisation and market performance in the case of Honda Motor Corp.
Presentations at conferences and workshops (main)
2020:
7 October: keynote speaker at the European Week of Regions (della Commissione europea), organizzata in webinar: sessione organizzata dalla Regional Studies Association (RSA) su “Are Policy Makers alone in charting recovery from crisis? How researchers can help?”
23-26 August: ERSA Conference, European Regional Studies Association (webinar), title of presentation: “Place-based industrial policy for less developed regions: smart specialisation and smart complementarity”
8 July, presentation at the Webforum on “A New European Industrial Strategy and the European Recovery program after the Covid-19 Crisis”, organized by the “Growth, Investment and Territory” group; title of the presentation: “Industrial Policy after the Covid Crisis: mobilising all levels of government for smart complementarity”
2019:
7-8 November: RegInnPol Conference (14th edition) Technological change, social innovation, and regional transformation, University of Florence, presentation: “Regional industrial policy in a multilevel governance framework in times of game-changing technological change”. Chair of the Session on “Analysis and evaluation of regional innovation policies”.
22 October: Seminar on “La “metamorfosi” del modello emiliano e il “nuovo” triangolo industriale”, University of Parma, Title of presentation: “Rivoluzione industriale e politica industriale: l’Emilia Romagna come laboratorio di azione a livello regionale” (Industrial revolution and industrial policy: the Emilia Romagna Region as a laboratory of actions at regional level).
18-19 October: International conference of the SISE (Italian Society of Economic History), University of Padova, presentation untitled: “La resilienza economica in prospettiva storica: quale lezione dal caso dell’Emilia-Romagna?” (Economic resilience in historical perspective; what are the lessons from the Emilia Romagna Region?), joint work with P. Bianchi (University of Ferrara), R. Giardino (Emilia-Romagna Region), A. Rinaldi and G. Solinas (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).
26 September: presentation of the book “Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0”, with Phil Tomlinson (University of Bath), at the Conference “Innovation for Industrial Transformation”, organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre's Directorate for Growth and Innovation in collaboration with the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation dell’OCSE, Seville, Spain.
13-14 September, Conference of the Association of neo-Latin Economists, presentation on "Industrial and Development Policies in Europe"
2018:
12 December: presentation of the experience of the Emilia Romagna Region in the definition and implementation of industrial policy at the Trade Union Congress workshop on ‘All Tomorrow’s Jobs’: launch of TUC report on the future of manufacturing employment, Trade Union Congress, Londra.
7 December: workshop MAKERS on “Industry 4.0: A transformative place-based policy” at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), organized by David Bailey (University of Birmingham) and Felice Simonelli (CEPS), Bruxelles, participation in the Panel “A transformative place-based policy”, with the DG Regio of the European Commission (Peter Berkowitz) and the OECD (Annalisa Primi).
25-27 October: Presentation of “The Political Economy of Industry” at the annual conference of the Italian Association of Economists (SIE), sessione A1 “A political approach to political economy”.
9 October: Speaker at the Week of Regions, Bruxelles, Session “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0”, organized by the RSA; title of presentation: “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0. The importance of extra-regional links for lagging regions”.
21 September: Seminar on Building, embedding and reshaping global value chains, OECD, Paris: presentation of “What policies, initiatives or programmes can support attracting, embedding and reshaping GVCs in regions?” as a keynote speaker.
12-13 July: Conference “Back on the Agenda? Industrial Policy Revisited”, Cambridge, UK, presentation of “Why is the Territorial Level the Most Appropriate for Industrial Policy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?” and “Enhancing Innovative Capabilities in Peripheral Regions: An Extra‐Regional Collaborative Approach to RIS3”, the latter with P. Tomlinson (University of Bath).
24 May: Presentation of “Medium and Long-Term Economic Consequences of Natural Disasters on Territories” at the 3rd EUSAIR (European Strategy of the Adriatic-Ionian Region) Forum, session on Territorial Resilience to Natural Disasters, Catania, Italy.
14-16 January, ReHi (RSA Research Network on Regional Economic and Policy History) Workshop on “A historical account of Regional Resilience”, Fryske Academy, Leeuwarden (Olanda); presentation untitled “Regional Resilience: lessons from historical analysis of industrial policy in the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy”.
2017:
25-26 April: Workshop on Interdisciplinary connections between history and regional studies (Rehi, RSA Research Network on Regional Economic and Policy History), UCL Bartlett School of Planning, London, discussant.
20 April: Collegio europeo Parma, Seminar / Lecture on European industrial policy, and presentation of "Industrial policies for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" in the workshop “Strategic Sector of the European Union: Hard science and technology”.
23-25 March: Participation in the G7 Scientific Academies Meeting, Session on “New economic growth: the role of science, technology, innovation and infrastructure”, for the preparation of the Joint Statement n.3, Rome, Accademia dei Lincei.
2016:
5 October: Presentation on The importance of regional industrial development policies at the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in Trieste.
23-26 August 2016, European Regional Studies Association (ERSA) Congress, Vienna, Austria, presentation of “Governance, Agency and Regional Resilience: a case study of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy”.
3-6 April, Regional Studies Association (RSA) Conference, Graz, Austria, presentation of “Governance, agency and Regional Resilience”.
2015:
11-13 November: SEPIP (Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy) Conference, Istanbul Commerce University. Keynote speaker: presentation on “Industrial Policy and multilevel governance”.
15-17 June: Presentation od “Distinguishing between the Breadth and Depth of Knowledge Transfer Activities: the predominance of third mission motives for Italian academics”, http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/druid/registrant/index/papers, n. 2542, DRUID Conference at the Luiss University of Rome.
5-6 February: Conference Società italiana di economia e politica industriale (SIEPI) in Milan, IULM, presentation of “The institutional framework of industrial policy”.
2014
4-10 November: Conferences in Mexico, invited by Clemente Ruiz Duran (UNAM): Elementos para repensar le politica industrial en Mexico: 6 November (Marco institutional de politica industrial para el desarrollo de la empresa y la innovacion); 7 November (Los retos del crescimiento economico: nuevos enfoques para la politica industrial); 8 November, “Industrial policy beyond growth” at ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations).
13-14 June: Nice (France), "Managing the emergency: the case of the reconstruction of the school system in the ER region after the 2012 earthquake", conference Risques et incertitudes (Risk and Uncertainty), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
2013
17-18 October: Keynote speaker at the conference “Les relations entre la finance et l’industrie” (The relationships between Finance and Industry), Lyon, Université de Lyon 2, presentation on "Industrial change, financial system and sustainable industrial policy".
14-15 October: Presentation on “Smart growth: is industrial policy back on stage?”, at the Expert Workshop on Economic Policy Advice for the Quality of Growth, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
17-18 May, Organisation of a workshop on “Manufacturing renaissance? Structural changes and consequences for industrial economics”, at the University of Ferrara. Two presentations: “Structural transformations in industry and filieres” with P. Bianchi and “Structural transformations in clusters: the cases of biomedical and ceramics”, with G. Prodi.
4 February: Charles Babbage Seminar, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, participation in the panel discussions of the seminar by Patrizio Bianchi on “A New Approach to Industrial Policy”, with Ha-Joon Chang.
2012:
12 July East Forum Unicredit / OCSE Conference on “The Challenges to Economic Growth. New approaches to Industrial Policy”, Rome, invited as discussant.
19-21 June: DRUID conference, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) on “Innovation and Competitiveness. Dynamics of organizations, industries, systems and regions”; presentation of paper “How do the institutions involved in Scientific Collaboration deal with spatial and institutional distance? An analysis of co-authorships of scientific publications” (with Iorio R., D’Amore R.)
15-17 February: Industrial Policy Book workshop of ILO / UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland; presentation on “Industrial Policy in Western Europe” together with Patrizio Bianchi.
8-10 October, Incontri di Artimino du "Nuovo sviluppo industriale e politiche di sistema", presentation of work on the Mirandola biomedical cluster after the earthquake.
2011:
17-20 April, Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, presentation of paper on industrial policy after the crisis and the case of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
15-17 September, Annual conference of the Italian regional studies association, Turin; presentation of paper on industrial policy after the crisis and the case of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
20-21 October, Workshop on “Clusters in global value chains: what is the role of innovation systems?”, Orkestra, Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Deusto Foundation, San Sebastian, presentation of study on the Mirandola biomedical cluster.
3-5 October 2011, Gli Incontri di Artimino “Innovazione e trasformazione industriale dei territori nelle regioni europee” presentation on the upgrading of clusters in mature sector.
29 June 2011, Committee of the Regions meeting on Industrial competitiveness: Global challenges, regional responses (presentation of book on industrial policy after the crisis together with P. Bianchi)
2010
22-23 June 2010: XXII Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, Presentation on “The crisis and the recovery: do we need an Industrial Policy?”
2009
September, Annual conference of the journal L'Industria, Ferrara, presentation on sovereign wealth funds and state shareholding, together with Andrea Goldstein (OCSE)
7-9 November: conference of the 30th anniversary of the journal Revue d’Economie Industrielle, Nice, France; presentation of "30 years of industrial economics and policy viewed through the journal L'Industria"(with P. Bianchi and E. Pontarollo)
2008
June, DRUID Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
Presentation of paper: Iorio, Labory and Paci, “The determinants of research quality in Italy: empirical evidence using bibliometric data in the biotech sector”
2007
EUNIP 2007 Conference, Florence, presentation of:
- Bianchi – Labory: The Coherence of new industrial policies. A comparative analysis of some OECD countries
- Iorio – Labory – Paci: Research impact in the biotech sector: evidence from bibliometric data
AISSEC 2007 Conference, Parma, 21-23 June (XVIa conference) ; presentazione of "The Coherence of new industrial policies. A comparative analysis of some OECD countries" (Bianchi e Labory)
2006
EUNIP Conference 2006, June, Limerick, Ireland; presentation of “Industrial policy in an open and knowledge-based economy”
Proximity Conference 2006, Bordeaux, France, June, presentation of “The evolution of external linkages and relational density in the Tuscan Leather Industry” (with L. Bacci e M. Lombardi).
