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Alessandro Rosiello combines innovation theories, institutional economics, and an evolutionary perspective to study technological change and innovation dynamics across a variety of industrial settings. He has expertise in small business finance and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Alessandro completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Strathclyde and was initially appointed as a research fellow at the Innogen Institute at the University of Edinburgh to study the policy framework aimed at triggering industrial clustering in Scotland. Over the past 20 years, his research has broadened to investigate the quantitative relationship between R&D investments and the financial performance of innovative firms, exploring areas such as small business finance, including business loans, grants, and equity finance. He has also contributed to the concept of smart specialization for regional growth and the emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems, which refer to networks of interdependent actors that support the creation and growth of new businesses in various geographies, along with technological catch-up at a global level.
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