ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA
Insegnamenti a.a. 2021/2022
20567 INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIES
20595 BUSINESS ANALYTICS
20728 DECISION ANALYSIS IN MANAGEMENT
40050 APPLIED BUSINESS STUDIES
Insegnamenti a.a. precedenti
Note biografiche
Roma, 24 settembre 1961. Laureato in Economia e commercio presso l'Università di Genova. MA in Economics presso la New York University. PhD in Economics presso la Stanford University.
Curriculum Accademico
Professore di Economia e Gestione delle Imprese e Direttore del Dipartimento di Management & Tecnologia. Mi occupo di economia e management dell'innovazione tecnologica con particolare riferimento alle strategie delle imprese e all'impatto dell'innovazione sulle strutture industriali. Ho pubblicato su diverse riviste mazionali ed internazionali. Il mio libro più conosciuto è Markets for Technology (2001, MIT Press, con A.Arora e A.Fosfuri). Sono Department Editor della sezione Business Strategy di Management Science (con Joshua Gans), Fellow della Strategic Management Society, e Research Fellow del CEPR, Londra. Sono stato Chair della Divisione Business Policy and Strategy della US Academy of Management nel 2015-16 e Visting Professor presso il Dipartimento di Economia dell'Università di Stanford (nel 1995-86, 2003 e 2005) e la Sloan School del MIT (2015-16).
Aree di interesse scientifico
Strategia. Innovazione. Economia e gestione delle imprese.
Pubblicazioni
Articoli su riviste (selezione)
- Profiting from Enabling Technologies? (con S. Heaton, E. Novelli e D. Teece), Strategy Science, in corso di pubblicazione
- Value Lab: A Tool for Entrepreneurial Strategy (con T. Felin e T. Zenger), Management & Business Review, in corso di pubblicazione
- Lean Start-up and the Business Model: Experimentation Revisited (con T. Felin, S. Stern e T. Zenger), Long Range Planning, 2020, open access https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024630119301505?via%3Dihub
- Managing Autonomy in Industrial R&D: A Project-Level Investigation (con P. Khashabi e C. Panico), Organization Science, 2020
- A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (con A. Camuffo, A. Cordova e C. Spina), Management Science, 2020
- Open-Sourcing as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy for Downstream Firms (con E. Von Hippel), Strategy Science, 2019, open access https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/stsc.2018.0075
- Specializing in Generality: Firm Strategies When Intermediate Factor Markets Work (con R. Conti e E.Novelli), Organization Science, 2019, open access https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/orsc.2018.1243
- Specializing in General-Purpose Technologies as a Firm Long-Term Strategy (con R. Conti e E. Novelli) Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019
- The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios (con D. Harhoff e B. Verspagen), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2017
- The User Innovation Paradigm: Implications for Markets and Welfare (con C. Raasch e E. Von Hippel), Management Science, 2017, disponibile open access http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2393
- Using, Blocking, and Sleeping Patents: Empirical Evidence from a Large Inventor Survey (con S. Torrisi, P. Giuri, D. Harhoff, K. Hoisl e M. Mariani), Research Policy, 2016
- Bribery and Investment: Firm-Level Evidence from Africa and Latin America (con A. Birhanu e G. Valentini), Strategic Management Journal, 2016 ... guarda il video abstract
- Using What You Know: Patented Knowledge and Incumbent Firms in Employee Entrepreneurship (con M. Ganco e F. Honorè), Organization Science, 2015
- Bibliometric Evaluation and Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy (con G. Bertocchi, T. Jappelli C. Nappi, F. Peracchi), Research Policy, 2015
- Strategic Incentives to Human Capital (con C. Panico, G. Valentini), Strategic Management Journal, 2015 ... guarda il video abstract
- On the Management of Open Innovation (con C.Panico), Research Policy, 2014
- Learning to Be Edison: Inventors, Organizations and Breakthrough Inventions (con R.Conti e M.Mariani), Organization Science, 2014
- The Economic Value of Patented inventions: Thoughts and Open Questions, International Journal of Industrial Organizations, 2013
- Research on Markets for Inventions and Implications for R&D Allocation Strategies (con R.Conti e E.Novelli), Academy of Management Annals, 2013
- General Technological Capabilities, Product Market Fragmentation, and Markets for Technology (con M.Giarratana), Research Policy, 2013
- Technology Push and Demand Pull Perspectives in Innovation Studies: Current Findings and Future Research Directions (con G.Di Stefano e G.Verona), Research Policy, 2012
- Localized Knowledge Spillovers and Skill-Biased Performance" (con M.Giarratana), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2010
- Ideas for Rent: An Overview of Markets for Technology (con A.Arora), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010
- Business-Model Innovation, General Purpose Technologies, Specialization and Industry Change (con A.McGahan), Long Range Planning, 2010
- How and When Should Companies Retain their Human Capital? Contracts, Incentives, and Human Resource Implications (con M.Giarratana e C.Panico), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010
- Organizational Attributes and the Distribution of Rewards in a Region: Managerial Firms vs Knowledge Clusters (con M.Giarratana), Organization Science, 2010
- A Breadth of Fresh Air: Firm Type, Scale and Selection Effects in Drug Development (con A.Arora, L.Magazzini e F.Pammolli), Management Science, 2009
- How Provincial is Your Region? Openness and Regional Performance in Europe (con M.Mariani e S.Torrisi), Regional Studies, 2009
- The Value of European Patents (con D.Harhoff e B.Verspagen), European Management Review, 2008
- The Market for Patents in Europe (con P.Giuri e A.Luzzi), Research Policy, 2007
- Inventors and Invention Processes in Europe. Results from the PatVal-EU Survey (con P.Giuri et al.), Research Policy, 2007
- Proprietory vs Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products (con B.Hall), Research Policy, 2006
- Old Economy Inputs for New Economy Outputs: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valles (con T.Bresnahan e A.Saxenian), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2001
- Specialised Technology Suppliers, International Spillovers and Investments: Evidence from the Chemical Industry (con A.Arora e A.Fosfuri), Journal of Development Economics, 2001
- Domestic Markets and International Competitiveness: Generic and Product Specific Competencies in the Engineering Sector (con A.Arora), Strategic Management Journal, 1997
- Evaluating Technological Information and Utilizing It (con A.Arora), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1994
- The Changing Technology of Technical Change: General and Abstract Knowledge and the Division of Innovative Labour (con A.Arora), Research Policy, 1994
- Competitive Advantages from In-house Basic Research, Research Policy, 1992
- Complementarity and External Linkages: The Strategies of the Large Firms in Biotechnology (con A.Arora), Journal of Industrial Economics, 1990
Libri (principali)
- Decidere per competere (con A. Camuffo), Vol.15, serie L’Economia del Corriere della Sera, Università Bocconi, Milano, 2018
- Innovazione e Sviluppo: Miti da Sfatare, Realtà da Costruire, Egea, 2009
- From Underdog to Tigers: The Rise of the Software Industry in Some Emerging Economies (a cura di, con A.Arora), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
- Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond (a cura di, con T. Bresnahan), Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy, (con A.Arora e A. Fosfuri), Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001
- Science and Innovation: The US Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1980s, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995
Altre pubblicazioni
Working paper
- Small Changes with Big Impact: Experimental Evidence of a Scientific Approach to the Decision-Making of Entrepreneurial Firms (con A. Camuffo e C. Spina), CEPR DP 14909
- anaging Spillovers in Project Selection (con A. Francetich), CEPR DP 12946
Altri articoli
- The Value of Precision for Entrepreneurial Decisions (con A. Camuffo and A. Cordova), Vox, Jan 6, 2018