Guillermo Andrés-Alpízar is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa since 2024. Previously, he studied for a PhD in Economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa in Italy, and he was a PhD Visiting Fellow at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands. Guillermo holds a master’s degree in Economics, Policies, and Management of Innovation from the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Matanzas, Cuba.
Before joining the University of Pisa, Guillermo served as a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the World Economy (CIEM) in Cuba between 2010 and 2023, where he specialized in the study of global trends of science, technology, and innovation, and the macroeconomic evolution of Latin America and the Caribbean. He also taught courses in International Economic Relations as an Associate Professor at the University of Havana. As a consultant, he has collaborated on several international projects with United Nations agencies such as UNIDO, ECLAC, and UNDP.
Guillermo’s primary expertise lies in the fields of economics of innovation, economics of networks, and international political economy. He was elected to join the Academic Board of LALICS in 2024 and is currently a member of a project focused on the relationship between multinationals and knowledge flows across countries, with a focus on the green transition.
Selected publications
Iammarino, S., Savona, M., Marinelli, E., Sait, M. A., & Andrés-Alpízar, G. L. (2023). International policy lessons: integrated report. Sede Subregional de la CEPAL en México (Estudios e Investigaciones), (67994).
Andrés-Alpízar, G. L. (2019). El financiamiento a la innovación en Cuba: La experiencia del Fondo Financiero de Ciencia e Innovación (FONCI). Economia y desarrollo, 162(2).
Andrés-Alpízar, G. L. (2017). Patenting trends in Latin America and the Caribbean. An approach from Cuba. Revista Cubana de Economía Internacional, 4(2).