Chiara Franco is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pisa since 2019. Previously she was Senior Lecturer (2016-2019) in the same university. She has been Postdoctoral research fellow at the Dept of International Economics, Institutions and Development, Catholic University of Milan (2012- 2015) and at the University of Bologna (2009-2012). From 2009 she holds a PhD in Law and Economics from the University of Bologna, where she also got a Master in Development, Innovation and Change in 2005.
She is currently Research associate at CIRCLE, University of Lund, Sweden.
She has been Visiting Scholar at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) and Erasmus + Visiting Teaching at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo.
Her main research interests lie within the fields of International Economics and International Business, Economics of Innovation, Environmental Economics, Behavioural Economics. Her publications appeared in several peer-reviewed academic journals, including Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Research Policy, Industry and Innovation, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, World Economy, International Business Review.
She is currently co-editor of ‘Economics-The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal’.
Selected publications
Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility (with Fabio Landini), 2022, Research Policy, 51(2), 104423.
From FDI to economic complexity: a panel Granger causality analysis (with Roberto Antonietti), 2021, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 56, pp. 225-239.
Foreign vs. domestic multinationals in R&D linkage strategies (with Antonello Zanfei, Claudio Cozza, Giulio Perani), 2021, Industry and Innovation, 28(6), pp. 725-748.
Outward Foreign Direct Investments Patterns of Italian Firms in the EU ETS (with Giovanni Marin and Simone Borghesi), 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(1), 219-256.
Investors’ characteristics and the business climate as drivers of backward linkages in Vietnam (with Marco Sanfilippo and Adnan Seric), 2019, Journal of Policy Modeling, 41(5), 882-904.
R&D endowments at home driving R&D internationalisation: Evidence from the Italian business R&D survey (with Claudio Cozza and Giulio Perani), 2018, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 134, 277-289.