Research Associate

Staff

Riccardo Leoncini

Research Associate

Current Academic Position

Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law, University of Bologna.

Address

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università di Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45
40125, Bologna (I)
Tel. ++39-051-2092654 - Fax ++39-051-2092670

Education

PhD in Economics, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester.
MA in Economics, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester.
BA (Laurea) in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri", University of Florence.

Other Positions

Research Associate at CERIS-CNR (National Research Council), Milan.
National Coordinator - PRIN Project Fragmentation and local development, 2005-2007
Member - School of Development Innovation and Change (SDIC), Bologna.
Teaching Staff - Doctorate in Law and Economics, University of Bologna.

Teaching activities

Undergraduate

Economia Politica (Economics), triennale, magistrale.
Sviluppo Economico (Economic Development), laurea specialistica.
Economia dei sistemi locali (Economics of Local Systems), laurea specialistica.

Postgraduate

Sviluppo Economico (Economic Development), MA.
Development and Local Systems of Innovation, MA.

Fields of Interest

Analysis of technological change and innovation.
Evolutionary theory.
Theory of the firm.

Recent conferences

[28-29/6/2007] Product architecture and the organisation of industry, III PRIN Workshop, University of Piedmont.
[26-27/1/2007] Dynamic capabilities and industrial evolution: a simulation model, II PRIN Workshop, University of Lecce.
[19-20/1/2007] Organisation of industry and innovation dynamics, Workshop “Internal Organisation, Cooperative Relationships among Firms and Competitiveness”, University of Pisa.
[12-13/10/2006] Invited speaker, L'insegnamento delle materia giuridiche e gli sbocchi professionali dei laureati in Giurisprudenza in Europa, University of Bologna.
[11-13/9/2006] The organisation of industry in a modular world: some insight from a pseudo-NK model, SPRU Conference, Brighton.
[21-24/6/2006] The organisation of industry in a modular world: some insight from a pseudo-NK model, 11 International Schumpeter Society Conference “Innovation, competition and growth: Schumpeterian perspectives”, Sophia-Antipolis, Nice.
[18-20/6/2006] Technological competition in a modular environment, DRUID Summer Conference “Knowledge, Innovation and Competitiveness”, Copenhagen Business School.
[10/5/2006] Organisation of the inaugural Workshop of PRIN Project “Frammentazione e sviluppo locale: modelli interpretativi e scenari di politica economica”, University of Bologna.

Refereeing activity

Economia Politica, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Research Policy, Routledge, World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development

Mimeo & WP

Ciarli T., Leoncini R., Montresor S. and Valente M. (2006), Product architecture and the organisation of industry.
Leoncini R., Lombardi M. and Montresor S. (2005), How dynamic capabilities evolve.

Forthcoming

Leoncini R. and De Liso N. (eds.), Internationalization, Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm, Routledge, London.Ciarli T., Leoncini R., Montresor S. and Valente M., Organisation of industry and innovation dynamics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

Recent pubblications

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2008) (eds.), Dynamic Capabilities between Firm Organization and Local Systems of Production, Routledge, London.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2008), Learning and firm dynamics: theoretical approaches and empirical analysis of dynamic capabilities, in (eds.) Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2008) (eds.), Dynamic Capabilities between Firm Organization and Local Systems of Production, Routledge, London.

Ciarli T., Leoncini R., Montresor S. and Valente M. (2007), Innovation and competition in complex environments, Innovation: Management, Policy Practice, vol. 3-4.

Cainelli G., Leoncini R. and Montini A. (2007),Spatial knowledge spillovers and regional productivity growth in Europe, Revue d'Économie Régionale et Urbaine, a. 2, pp. 201-222.

Cainelli G., Leoncini R. and Montini A. (2006), Spillover di conoscenza e crescita della produttività manifatturiera in Europa, in Cainelli G., De Liso N. (eds.), Organizzazione, conoscenze e sistemi locali, Franco Angeli, Milan.

Leoncini R., Montresor S. and Vertova G. (2006), Dynamic capabilities: evolving organisations in evolving (technological) systems, Economia Politica, vol. 23, n. 3, pp. 471-498.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2006), La natura delle capabilities dinamiche: organizzazione di cluster o cluster organizzativi? in Lopes A., Lorizio M., Reganati F. (eds.), Istituzioni e imprese nello sviluppo locale, Carocci, Rome.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2005), A comparative analysis of core and extra-core relationships in technological systems, Research Policy, vol. 34, pp. 83-100.

Leoncini R. (2005), Review of "Lundvall B. (2002), Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion", Economic System Research, vol. 17, pp. 98-101.

Leoncini R. (2004), Of penguins, innovation and technological systems,Istituzioni e Sviluppo Economico, n. 3, pp. 51-76.

Leoncini R. and Lotti F. (2004), Innovative activity in Emilia Romagna. Are industrial districts more conducive to potential and effective innovative products?, in Zoboli R., Cainelli G. (eds.), Inside the Industrial District. The Evolution of Local Capitalism in Italy, Physica-Verlag.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2003), Technological Systems and Intersectoral Innovation Flows, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Antonelli G., Cainelli G., De Liso N., Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2003), Economia, Giappichelli, Turin.

Cainelli G., Leoncini R. and Montini A. (2001), Struttura produttiva e sviluppo regionale di lungo periodo in Italia, Moneta e Credito, n. 216, pp. 461-485.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2001), Struttura produttiva e processo innovativo: un'analisi intersettoriale del sistema tecnologico italiano, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, vol. VI, pp. 169-206.

Leoncini R. and Montresor S. (2001), The automobile technological systems. An empirical analysis of four European countries, Research Policy, vol. 30, pp. 1321-1340.

Leoncini R. (2001), Segmentation and increasing returns in the evolutionary dynamics of competing techniques, Metroeconomica, vol. 52, pp. 217-237