ENRICO SANTARELLI

Current Position:
Full Professor of Economic Policy, Industrial Economics, and Entrepreneurship: University of Bologna;

Research interests:
New-firm entry, growth, and survival; small business economics; theoretical models of innovation and technological change; technological change in the data processing industry; technological change in consumer goods industries; internal organization of the firm; competition policy and antitrust legislation; FDI in transition economies; labour economics.

Bibliometric Indicators:
Number of citations reported in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1990-present (July 2011): 337. h-index (ISI) = 11.

Number of citations reported in Harzing’s “Publish or Perish” --1990-present (July 2011): 1921. h-index (Harzing’s) = 21.

Number of citations reported in Scopus (July 2011): 440.

Address:
Università degli Studi di Bologna
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Piazza Scaravilli, 2
40126 BOLOGNA
ITALY
tel. 0039 051 - 2098487 fax 0039 051 - 2098493
E-mail:enrico.santarelli@unibo.it

Graduate and post-graduate studies:
·1996: D.Phil. University of Sussex (UK); Supervisor: G. N. vonTunzelmann; Examiners: Robert Eastwood (Sussex), Andrew Tylecote (Newcastle);
·1989: Fellow at the Summer School on Industrial Economics, Firenze, European University Institute, June;
·1988: Fellow at the International School of Economic Research, University of Siena (Italy), July;
·1987: Fellow at the Course on Organization Theory and the Theory of the Firm, hold by Bengt Holmstrom at Bergamo University (Italy), June;
·1981: Laurea in Political Sciences (cum laude), University of Macerata; (Italy);

Academic appointments:
· Senior Scientist: European Commission, Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville: !st March 2010 – 31^st August 2010;

·Research Professor: Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group, Jena: November 2002 – August 2009;

· Visiting Professor: Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam and EIM - Business and Policy Research (Sponsor: Roy Thurik): March 2002.
·2000-2001: Adjunct Professor of Industrial Economics - University LUISS "Guido Carli" (Rome), Master of Business Administration;
·1990-91: (October-March): Research Associate - University of California at Berkeley (USA), Center for Research in Management (Sponsors: Oliver Williamson and David Teece);
·1987: (August-October: Visiting Scholar - University of Glasgow (UK), Department of Economics (Sponsor: David Vines);
·From A.Y. 1986-87 (starting June 1987) to A.Y. 1991-92: Research Fellow in Economics - University "Gabriele d'Annunzio", Chieti (at Teramo - Italy) - Faculty of Political Sciences, Dipartimento di Teoria dei Sistemi e delle Organizzazioni;
·1986-87: Adjunct Professor of Economics of Innovation - University of Ancona (Italy), Faculty of Economics and Business;
·1985-86: Visiting Research Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (UK) (Sponsors: Luc Soete and Keith Pavitt);
·1984-85: Research Fellow, Stanford University (USA), Department of Economics (Sponsors: Nathan Rosenberg and Moses Abramovitz);
·1984-85: Adjunct Professor of Development Economics - University of Ancona (Italy), Faculty of Economics and Business;
·1983-84: Adjunct Professor of History of Economic Thought - University of Ancona (Italy), Faculty of Economics and Business.

Other (including editorial services):

·Organization of the Annual Workshop of SIEPI (Italian Society of Industrial Economics and Policy), University of Bologna, Department of Economics - 26 and 27 January 2006;
·Associate Editor of Small Business Economics;

·Review Editor of the Journal of Business Venturing;

·Co-Editor of the IPTS Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation, Knowledge for Growth Unit – Economics of Industrial Research and Innovation Action, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies- Directorate-General JRC – Joint Research Center, European Commission;
·Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE): 2005-2010;
·Organization of the International Workshop on “Innovation, Employment, and Economic Growth”, University of Bologna, Faculty of Statistics and Department of Economics - 28 and 29 November 2003;
·Organization of theInternational Workshop on “The Post-entry Performance of Firms: Technology, Growth, and Survival” University of Bologna, Department of Economics, Strada Maggiore, 45 - Bologna - 22 and 23 November 2002;
·Member of the Programme Committee of the 26^th Annual E.A.R.I.E. Conference, Torino, 4-7 September 1999,
·Member of the Editorial board of the journal of industrial economics and policy L’industria (publisher: il Mulino, Bologna).

Scientific Associations:
·Industrial Organization Society;

·European Association for Research in Industrial Economics;
·Società Italiana degli Economisti

·Fellow, ENCORE - Economics Network for Competition and Regulation (November 2003 --)

·Fellow, RCEA – Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (November 2007 --)

Referee for international journals:
· Applied Economics; Applied Financial Economics; Documenti di Lavoro – ISAE (Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses); Economia Politica; Economia e Politica Industriale; Electronic Markets; Economica; Empirica; Economics of Innovation and New Technology; Estudios Economicos; Industrial and Corporate Change; Information Economics and Policy; International Journal of the Economics of Business; International Journal of Industrial Organization; International Journal of Innovation Management; International Journal of Manpower; International Review of Applied Economics; Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft - Review of Regional Research; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Journal of Developing Areas; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift fur Nationaloekonomie); Journal of Economic Geography; Journal of Evolutionary Economics; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Retailing; Journal of Technology Transfer; L’industria; lavoce.info; Labour Economics; Max Planck Institute of Economics – Discussion Paper Series; Metroeconomica; Politica Economica; Regional Studies; Research Policy; Review of Industrial Organization; Rivista Italiana degli Economisti; Rivista di Politica Economica; Russian Management Journal; Science and Public Policy; Small Business Economics; Statistica; Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Selected Publications in English

Books:
·1) Finance and Technological Change. Theory and Evidence, Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, Basingstoke and New York, 1995.
·2) (Edited) Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: the Dynamics of Firms and Industries, Springer, New York, 2006, Volume 12 in the Series “International Studies in Entrepreneurship” directed by Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch.

Papers and articles:

·3) (joint with Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul), “Sectoral Patterns of Firm Exit in Italian Provinces”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2011, Vol. 21, forthcoming;

·4) (joint with Roberta Piergiovanni), “ The More You Spend, the More You Get ? The Effects of R&D and Capital Expenditures on the Patenting Activities of Biotechnology Firms ”, JRC- IPTS Working Paper on Corporate R&D and Innovation, No. 06/2010;

·5) (joint with Roberta Piergiovanni and Martin Carree), “Creative Industries, New Business Formation and Regional Economic Growth”, Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2009-20, March; Small Business Economics, 2011, 36, forthcoming;

·6) (joint with Martin Carree, Roberta Piergiovanni, and Ingrid Verheul) “Policies Fostering New Firm Formation and Self-Employment in Italy: An Empirical Exercise” in R. Baptista and J. Leitao (eds.) (2009), Public Policies for Fostering Entrepreneurship. A European Perspective, Springer, New York, 2006; Volume 22 in the Series “International Studies in Entrepreneurship” directed by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch, pp. 15-34;

·7) (joint with Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul), “Regional Opportunities and Policy Initiatives for New Venture Creation”, International Small Business Journal, 2009, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 1-16;

·8) (joint with Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul), “Unemployment and Firm Entry and Exit: An Update on a Controversial Relationship”, Regional Studies, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 1061-1073;

·9) (joint with Francesca Lotti and Marco Vivarelli), “Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-run Regularity”, Small Business Economics, 2009, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 31-44;

·10) (joint with Francesca Lotti), “The Relationship among Innovative Output, Productivity, and Profitability. A Test Comparing USPTO and EPO data”, Industry and Innovation, 2008, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 393-409;

·11) (joint with Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul), “Firm Entry and Exit in Italian Provinces and the Relationship with Unemployment”, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2008, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 171-186;

·12) (joint with Marco Vivarelli), “Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firm’s Entry, Survival and Growth”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 455-488;

·13) (joint with Luuk Klomp and A. Roy Thurik), “Gibrat’s Law: An Overview of the Empirical Literature”, in E. Santarelli (Ed.), Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: the Dynamics of Firms and Industries, Springer, New York, 2006, pp. 41-73;

·14) (joint with Francesca Lotti and Marco Vivarelli), “Gibrat’s Law in a Medium-technology Industry: Empirical Evidence for Italy”, in E. Santarelli (Ed.), Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: the Dynamics of Firms and Industries, Springer, New York, 2006, pp. 149-164;

·15) “Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Evolution of Industrial Districts”, in E. Santarelli (Ed.), Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: the Dynamics of Firms and Industries, Springer, New York, 2006, pp. 165-182;

·16) (joint with Roberta Piergiovanni), “What is the Best Policy for Innovative Entrepreneurship?”, in E. Santarelli (Ed.), Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: the Dynamics of Firms and Industries, Springer, New York, 2006, pp. 261-274;

·17) (joint with Paolo Figini), "Openness, Economic Reforms, and Poverty: Globalization in Developing Countries", Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2006, pp. 129-151.
·18) (joint with Mariacristiona Piva and Marco Vivarelli), "Technological and Organizational Changes as Determinants of the Skill Bias: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms", Max Planck Institute (Jena), Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, # 0304, February 2004; Managerial and Decision Economics, 2005, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 63-73;
·19) (joint with Mariacristiona Piva and Marco Vivarelli), "The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications"IZA Discussion paper No. 934, November 2003; Research Policy, 2005, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 141-157;
·20)(joint with Paolo Figini), “Does Globalization Reduce Poverty? Some Empirical Evidence for the Developing Countries”, in Lee, Eddy and Marco Vivarelli (eds.) (2004), Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, pp. 247-304.
·21) (joint with Luca Lambertini and Francesca Lotti), “Infra-industry Spillovers, and R&D Cooperation: Theory and Evidence”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2004, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 311-328.
·22) (joint with Roberta Piergiovanni, Luuk Klomp and A. Roy Thurik), “Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size/Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Small Scale Services”, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute Discussion paper, TI 2002-080/3, August 2002, Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 2003, No. 102, pp. 69-82.
·23) "The Competitive Advantage of a Region: Industrial Districts in Emilia-Romagna", in Mitsuhiro Kagami and Masatsugu Tsuji (eds.), Industrial Agglomeration: Facts and Lessons for Developing Countries, Institute of Developing Economies (JETRO), Chiba (Japan), 2003, pp. 286-308.

·24) (joint with F. Lotti), "Industry Dynamics and the Distribution of Firm Sizes: A Non-parametric Approach", Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 70, No. 3, 2004, pp. 443-466.
·25) (joint with D.B. Audretsch, L.Klomp and A.R. Thurik), "Gibrat's Law: Are the Services Different?", EIM Policy and Business Research, Research Report H200201, August 2002; Review of Industrial Organization, 2004, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 301-32.
·26) (joint with Francesca Lotti), “The Survival of Family Firms: The Importance of Control and Family Ties”, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2005, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 183-192;
·27) (joint with Marco Vivarelli), "Is Subsidizing Entry an Optimal Policy?", Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 39-52.
·28) (joint with Samuele D'Altri), "The Diffusion of E-commerce among SMEs: Theoretical Implications and Empirical Evidence", Small Business Economics, 2003, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 273-283.
·27) (joint with Roberta Piergiovanni), "Patents and the Geographic Localization of R&D Spillovers in French Manufacturing", Regional Studies, Vol. 35, No. 8, 2001, pp. 697-702.
·29) (joint with Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Marco Vivarelli), “The Role of Subsidies in Promoting Italian Joint Ventures in Least Developed and Transition Economies”, Applied Economics, 2002, Vol.34, No. 12, pp.1536-1569.
·30) (joint with Francesca Lotti and Marco Vivarelli), "Is It Really Wise to Design Policies in Support of New Firm Formation?", in L. Lambertini (ed.), Antitrust, Regulation and Competition: Theory and Practice, special issue of the Rivista di Politica Economica, 2001, Vol. 91, No. 4-5, pp. 145-162.
·31) (joint with Francesca Lotti), "Linking Knowledge to Productivity: A Germany-Italy Comparison Using the CIS Database", Empirica, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2001, pp. 293-317.
·32) (joint with Francesca Lotti and Marco Vivarelli), "The Relationship Between Size and Growth: The Case of Italian Newborn Firms", Applied Economics Letters, 2001, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 451-454.
·33) “The Duration of New Firms in Banking: An Application of Cox Regression Analysis”, Empirical Economics, 2000, Vol. 25, No.2, pp. 315-326.
·34) (joint with F. Lotti), "Is firm growth proportional? An appraisal of firm size distribution", Economics Bulletin, 2001, Vol. 12, no. 6, pp.1-7.
·35) (joint with Francesca Lotti e Marco Vivarelli), “Does Gibrat's Law Hold in the Case of Young, Small Firms?”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2003, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 213-235.
·36) (joint with David Audretsch and Marco Vivarelli), "Start-up Size and Industrial Dynamics: Some Evidence from Italian Manufacturing", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1999, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 965-983.
·37) (joint with David Audretsch and Marco Vivarelli), "Does Start-up Size Influence the Likelihood of Survival?", in D. Audretsch and R. Thurik (eds.), Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 280-296.
·38) "Start-up Size and Post-entry Performance: The Case of Tourism Services in Italy", Applied Economics, 1998, Vol. 30, pp. 157-163.
·39) (joint with R. Piergiovanni and M. Vivarelli), "From Which Source do Small Firms Derive their Innovative Inputs? Some Evidence from Italian Industry", Review of Industrial Organization, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 243-258.
·40) (joint with R. Piergiovanni), "Analysing Literature-based Innovation Output Indicators: the Italian Experience", Research Policy, 1996, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 689-712.
·41) "Directed Graph Theory and the Economic Analysis of Innovation", Metroeconomica, 1995, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 111-126.
·42) (joint with R. Piergiovanni), "The Determinants of Firm Start-up and Entry in Italian Producer Services", Small Business Economics, 1995, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 221-230.
·43) (joint with A. Sterlacchini), "Embodied Technological Change in Supplier Dominated Firms. The Case of Italian Traditional Industries", Empirica, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 313-327.
·44) (joint with A. Sterlacchini), "New Firm Formation in Italian Industry: 1985-89", Small Business Economics, 1994, Vol. 6, No.2, pp. 95-106.
·45) "Market Structure and Innovation in Italian Industry: Preliminary Results from Literature-Based Innovation Output Indicators", Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 1993, Vol. 101, No. 3, pp. 307-319.
·46) "Asset Specificity, R&D Financing, and the Signalling Properties of the Firm's Financial Structure", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1991, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 279-294.
·47) (joint with A. Sterlacchini), "Innovation, Formal Vs. Informal R&D, and Firm Size. Some Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms", Small Business Economics, 1990, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 223-228.
·48) (joint with E. Pesciarelli), "The Emergence of a Vision: The Development of Schumpeter's Theory of Entrepreneurship", History of Political Economy, 1990, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 677-696.
·49) "Financial and Technological Innovations During the Phases of Capitalist Development", in R.M. Goodwin - M. Di Matteo - A. Vercelli (eds.), Technological and Social Factors in Long Term Fluctuations, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989, pp. 384-402.
·50)"The Financial Determinants of Technological Change. An Expository Survey", Economic Notes, 1987, No. 3, pp. 37-58.
·51)"Generation and Diffusion of New Technologies", International Review of Economics and Business, 1987, Vol. 34, No 9, pp. 829-852.

International conferences, talks, etc. (last 15 years):

· 6^th Annual Conference of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) Association: Fine Tuning IPR Databases, Bruxelles, 8-9 September 2011 (joint with A. Della Malva and M. Carree) “The Contribution of Universities to Growth: Empirical Evidence for Italy”;

· XXXVII Annual E.A.R.I.E. (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) Conference, Istambul, 2-4 September 2010, (joint with R. Piergiovanni) “Creative Industries, New Business Formation, and Regional Economic Growth”;

· CONCORD 2010: Conference on Corporate R&D, Seville, JRC-IPTS, 3-4 March 2010, (joint with R. Piergiovanni) “The More You Spend the More You Get? The Effects of R&D and Capital Expenditures on the Patenting Activities of Biotechnology Firms”;

· XXXVI Annual E.A.R.I.E. (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) Conference, Ljubljana, 3-5 September 2009, (joint with M. Carree and R. Piergiovanni)) “Creative Industries, New Business Formation, and Regional Economic Growth”;

· Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Graduate School on “Human Behavior in Social and Economic Change”: Brown Bag Seminar on “Creative industries”, 6 May 2009;

· International Workshop “Imprenditorialità, Creatività e Innovazione”, University of Cassino, 2-3 April 2009: “Creative Industries, New Business Formation and Regional Economic Growth” (joint with R. Piergiovanni and M. Carree);

· “Round Table Discussion: Future Avenues of Policymaking and Research – Lessons for Policy”, Drivers and Impacts of Corporate R&D in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, JRC-IPTS, Knowledge for Growth Unit, Seville, 19 September 2008;

· XXXV Annual E.A.R.I.E. (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) Conference, Toulouse, 4-6 September 2008, (joint with M. Carree and I. Verheul) “Regional Opportunities and Policy Initiatives for New Venture Creation”;

· Kauffman-Max Planck Annual Summit on “Entrepreneurship Research and Policy: Rethinking the Role of the University and Public Research for the Entrepreneurial Age”, Tegernsee (Munich), Germany, June 8-11, 2008;

· VI Annual International Industrial Organization Conference”, Marymount University (VA, USA), 17 May 2008, (joint with M. Carree and I. Verheul) “Regional Opportunities and Policy Initiatives for New Venture Creation”;

· Workshop on “The Dynamics of Science-based Entrepreneurship”, Sestri Levante (Italy) – 31 March - 2 April, 2008: discussant of the paper “Bridging the gap: Government Programs to Fund University Spin-offs” by E. Rasmussen, R. Sørheim R., and O.J. Borch;

· “Unemployment and Firm Entry and Exit: An Update on a Controversial Relationship”, University of Trento, CIFREM Seminars Series, 27 March 2008;

· “Unemployment and Firm Entry and Exit: An Update on a Controversial Relationship”, WIFO – Österreichesches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Vienna), 10 March 2008;

· II Annual Max Planck – Indian Institute of Science International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth, Bangalore, 24-26 October 2007: “Unemployment, Entrepreneurship, and the Region”;

·XXXIV Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Valencia, 6-9 September 2007 (joint with F. Lotti): “The Relationship among Innovative Output, Productivity, and Profitability. A Test Comparing USPTO and Epo Data””;

· XXXIV Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Valencia, 6-9 September 2007 (joint with M. Carree and I. Verheul): “Firm Entry and Exit in Italian provinces and the Relationship with Unemployment”;

· INNO-Views Policy Workshop on “Metrics to Better Understand Innovation Performance: New Approaches to Measuring Innovation”, Ispra, JRC-European Commission, 5-6 July 2007: “Patent Counts as Reliable Measures of Innovation: A Test Comparing USPTO and EPO Data”;

· Workshop on “La valutazione degli aiuti alle imprese”, Roma, Banca d’Italia, 28 June 2007: “La valutazione degli aiuti per la nascita di nuove imprese””;

· KEINS-DIME Conference, CESPRI-Bocconi, 5 June 2007: “Patent Strategy and Firm Performance: NTBFs in Italian Biortechnology”;

· Globelics Academy 2007, “Ph.D. School on Innovation and Economic Development”, Lisbon – Instituto Superior Tecnico, 2 May: “Determinants of the Skill-bias: Theory and Empirical Evidence”;