Roberta Capello
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1023019 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roberta Capello |
| NOMBRES | Roberta |
| APELLIDO | Capello |
| FIRMA | CAPELLO R |
| AFILIACIONES | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0438-6900 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 443 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Regional Growth and Disparities in the Era of Economic Security
Recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, coupled with a geopoliticization of trade, triggered the transition toward a new trade policy, moving away from managing interdependencies to managing dependency through economic security principles, embracing Open Strategic Autonomy . While a New Normal Trade Policy may be fundamental in restoring the European level playing field in international trade, it will not be exempt from costs…
Regional income redistribution in an era of rising market concentration
Starting from the superstar firm hypothesis of Autor et al. (2020), the paper conceptually analyses the regional industrial market power-induced effect on profit shares elaborating on the role of space. Our idea is that an industrial market power-induced effect exists, but this is heterogeneous across regions due to: i) the different capacity of regions to host superstar firms; ii) the multiplicative negative effects on inequalities that propagat…
Digitalisation, platformisation and the transformations of local labour markets
Rapid technological progress, primarily in the fields of artificial intelligence and advanced automation, have relaunched the debate regarding their impact on employment, highlighting vast heterogeneity across occupational groups, with the least skilled and least educated workers proving to be the most vulnerable to substitution effects. This paper re-examines this statement by conceptually and empirically distinguishing digitalisation from platf…
Territorial market power as a source of inequalities in the automation era
Automation is generally associated with a labour share decrease. This effect varies depending on the sectoral market concentration. This paper claims that also the presence of highly specialised and geographically clustered firms might shape the automation-labour share relationship. If monopolistic behaviours characterize the market structure, a territorial market power effect may take place, exerting a detrimental role on the labour share. Based…
The job premium of Global Value Chains’ reorganization in European regions
The 2008 economic crisis triggered a reorganization of Global Value Chains (GVCs), but there is limited understanding of both the intensity of these reorganization processes and their impact on employment. This issue is especially relevant in advanced economies, where concerns over stagnant productivity and employment are increasingly troubling policymakers, struggling to decide whether to reconsider neoliberal trade policies in favour of more in…
Co-operation and interdisciplinarity as winning strategies for advanced research
Regional inequalities in the age of nearshoring
While the literature is rich in anecdotal cases of firms going through nearshoring strategies, understood as the relocation of production inputs in a geographically closer area, a study on the macroeconomic effects of nearshoring at regional level, in terms of both growth and regional inequalities, is still missing. Instead, understanding the potential regional variations in the outcomes of nearshoring practices is crucial for policymakers and st…
Dibattito
La smartness e i territori. Come il sistema dell'innovazione e le tecnologie stanno impattando sul planning, sulla governance territoriale e sulle politiche di sviluppo locale / Modelli di innovazione e "politiche intelligenti" per le Regioni europee / Decoding territorial disparities: a GeoAI approach enhancing geospatial thinking - Mentre esiste un generale consenso circa la necessità di politiche dell'innovazione focalizzate sulle caratteristi…
Smile-and-go. Regional performance through global value chains in Europe
By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can establish favourable terms-of-trade. The results obtained at European regional level clearly show that regions rich of high and scarce skills and natural reso…
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times
Despite the numerous contributions assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of Cohesion Policies, their role in stimulating growth and cohesion in different macroeconomic settings and in different business cycle periods remains highly debated. This article aims at contributing to this literature by investigating the link between Cohesion Policy, economic growth and interregional inequalities over periods of crisis and recovery. In particular, t…
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics
The theorised reorganisation of global value chains (GVCs) during crises periods and the European Union advocating for a relaunch of manufacturing activities in favour of jobs creation bring about the crucial question whether a relaunch of manufacturing employment via backshoring in Europe takes place with an intensity large enough to be captured by aggregate statistics. Defining backshoring as a process according to which production of a region …
The Nexus between the Digital Service Economy and Intraregional Wage Inequalities
The upsurge in wage inequalities is a common prediction in the literature analyzing the labor market outcomes of the diffusion of information and communication technologies and automation technologies. More controversial, instead, is the relationship between wage inequalities and digital technologies. This article addresses this issue on conceptual and empirical grounds. Specifically, the article elaborates on the distinction between digital tech…
At the territorial roots of global processes
Despite the large evidence of the recent globalization phenomenon at national level, very little is known about the involvement of regional economies in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Instead, the regional dimension of GVCs is of primary importance since regions require an absolute advantage to be part of an international production chain. It can in fact be easily the case that within the same country both the participation and the gains from GVCs s…
Great Minds in regional science, vol. 2
Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies
The advent of 4.0 technologies allows a footloose location for firms and people, apparently suggesting a “flat world.” In this perspective, cities lose their attractiveness and undergo an urban decline. The aim of this paper is to reflect on urban growth opportunities provided by 4.0 technologies, detaching the analysis from a narrative and speculative explanation. The paper revisits the well-known Baumol model on urban crisis, and all its critic…
Beyond productivity slowdown
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe
After a long period of deindustrialization, Europe faces ‘the need to reverse the declining role of industry’, as the European Union officially claims, to relaunch productivity. Despite this strong political claim, scientifically sound analyses on whether a reindustrialization process takes place, and if it is accompanied by a relaunch of productivity, are still missing. Drawing on the path-dependence theoretical framework, different reindustrial…
Continuous vs. Discrete Urban Ranks
The reasons for changes in ranking within urban systems are a matter of a wide and long debate. Some focus on a continuous and smooth ordering of cities by their size within the urban system, in the tradition of Zipf’s law. Others focus on discrete, discontinuous ordering, as cities take on functions at different levels, such as specialized market places or high-level education, in the tradition of Christaller. We enter the debate by empirically …
Catching-up and regional disparities
While the allocation of regional assets has been theoretically and empirically analysed in regional growth theories, the subsequent logical step on how such allocation affects regional inequalities has not found direct quantitative validation. This paper tries to fill this gap by presenting an original simulation able to capture the relative weight of each economic resource in the process of decreasing regional disparities. Results witness that n…
Industry 4.0 and servitisation
Regional growth and disparities in a post‐Covid Europe
This paper addresses the important question “Which European areas will be able to better react to the crisis induced by COVID‐19 and how regional disparities will look like?” To provide an answer, a “new normality” scenario is built, comprising the structural changes likely to take place in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. To develop such scenario, two intermediate steps are necessary, in both cases relying on the use of the latest generation…
Le città metropolitane
Sulla base della teoria delle localita centrali, questo lavoro paragona la performance delle 14 citta metropolitane, istituite con la legge Delrio, al resto del Paese, per comprendere se tali citta si distacchino dal resto del Paese per posizionamento nella gerarchia urbana. I risultati suggeriscono che i criteri di applicazione della legge con cui si sono definiti i perimetri delle stesse con quelli delle province che hanno sostituito, non hanno…
Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions
The Fourth Technological Revolution has become a reality and profound changes and restructuring in the markets for 4.0 technologies are taking place with important spatial consequences. The paper demonstrates this statement through an empirical analysis based on an original large-scale patent database covering the creation of all 4.0 technologies across all European NUTS-2 regions in the period 2000–15. Regions exist in Europe characterized by a …
Cultural Heritage, Creativity, and Local Development
The present chapter reviews the recent studies of the ABC department surrounding the role of cultural heritage and creativity on local economic development. The research line covers the interpretation of culture as a territorial asset, its multifaceted dimensions, and impact on local development. An innovative definition of cultural capital was provided, jointly with empirical evidence on the relationship between cultural heritage and intangible …
Contributions by Italian scholars to regional science
Collective Learning and Relational Capital in Local Innovation Processes
Capello R. and Faggian A. (2005) Collective learning and relational capital in local innovation processes, Regional Studies39, 75-87. Innovative capacity of firms has traditionally been explained through intra-firm characteristics. In the more recent literature, much emphasis has been put on determinants that are external to the firm. These external factors, called knowledge spillovers, refer to the positive externalities that firms receive in te…
Spatial Transfer of Knowledge in High Technology Milieux
CAPELLO R. (1999) Spatial transfer of knowledge in high technology milieux: learning versus collective learning processes, Reg. Studies 33 , 353‐365 . An analysis of the definitions provided so far in the literature shows ambiguities in the conceptualization of collective learning. A parallel analysis of the concepts of learning and collective learning is provided, and similarities and differences underlined. One of the main distinguishing featur…
The City Network Paradigm
In recent years, network behaviour has been analysed extensively as the emerging model for economic growth. By network behaviour, a metaphor for co-operative behaviour among individuals, corporate or territorial partners is intended. This is increasingly becoming the reference paradigm in an era of continuing innovation and fast technological change, in the presence of 'market failure' where dynamic and innovative behaviours are concerned and of …
Beyond Optimal City Size
The aim of the paper is to present a critical view of theoretical works on city size. We begin with the consideration that, during the 1960s and 1970s, the question of optimal city size tended to be expressed in a misleading way. The real issue is not 'optimal city size' but 'efficient size', which depends on the functional characteristics of the city and on the spatial organisation within the urban system. Economies of scale exist up to a certai…
Spatial heterogeneity in the costs of the economic crisis in Europe
This article measures the spatial heterogeneity of the costs of the economic crisis and assesses the role of cities as sources of regional resilience in Europe. Cities hosting financial activities have been severely hit during the crisis; however, they also host hard and soft territorial capital elements—high physical accessibility, access to information and knowledge, advanced functions, agglomeration economies—generating inter-sectoral producti…
Regional Competitiveness and Territorial Capital
Camagni R. and Capello R. Regional competitiveness and territorial capital: a conceptual approach and empirical evidence from the European Union, Regional Studies. Today, a selective pattern of regional growth is emerging to differentiate single regions' growth and determine a varied mosaic of development stories. This fact calls for more stringent and selective interpretations of the different regional assets defining growth strategies for each …
Measuring border effects in European cross-border regions
This paper presents a new methodology to measure border effects from a different perspective with respect to the standard gravitational approach. The methodology proposed measures supply-side border effects by identifying two types of limits produced by the border to the productive system: inefficiency in exploiting local resources (efficiency needs) and scarce endowment of resources (endowment needs), the former calling for intervention on resou…
Cohesion Policies and the Creation of a European Identity
Among the factors highlighted by the literature as crucial for the success of cohesion policies in generating satisfaction among citizens, and therefore in acting positively on the constitution of an European identity, this paper emphasizes a particular one, territorial identity. Elaborating on the definition of territorial identity as a local condition in which private interests coincide with public ones, the paper claims that territorial identi…
Technological interdependence and regional growth in Europe
Static vs. dynamic agglomeration economies. Spatial context and structural evolution behind urban growth
Regional reindustrialization patterns and productivity growth in Europe
After a long period of deindustrialization, Europe faces ‘the need to reverse the declining role of industry’, as the European Union officially claims, to relaunch productivity. Despite this strong political claim, scientifically sound analyses on whether a reindustrialization process takes place, and if it is accompanied by a relaunch of productivity, are still missing. Drawing on the path-dependence theoretical framework, different reindustrial…
Knowledge, Innovation and Productivity Gains across European Regions
Capello R. and Lenzi C. Knowledge, innovation and productivity gains across European regions, Regional Studies. This paper studies the relationship between knowledge, innovation and productivity in European regions, looking for the sources of spatial heterogeneity across regions in the type of knowledge needed for innovation and in the propensity to innovate, which mostly depend upon specific and systemic context conditions. The conceptual framew…
Technologies and the rise of new islands of innovation in European regions
The Fourth Technological Revolution has become a reality and profound changes and restructuring in the markets for 4.0 technologies are taking place with important spatial consequences. The paper demonstrates this statement through an empirical analysis based on an original large-scale patent database covering the creation of all 4.0 technologies across all European NUTS-2 regions in the period 2000–15. Regions exist in Europe characterized by a …
A Handbook of Industrial Districts
A Handbook of Industrial Districts, Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi and Lisa De Propris (Eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2009). xxxv + 863 pp. £160.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 1 84720 267 3. Industrial di
Understanding citizen perception of European Union Cohesion Policy
The way in which Cohesion Policy is perceived by citizens is a crucial issue for the process of European identity-building. Based on the idea that citizens’ perceptions depend on the local socioeconomic context in which Cohesion Policy is implemented, the paper seeks to define alternative combinations of the economic, social and institutional features of different local policy implementation settings, and to identify them empirically in European …
Regional innovation patterns from an evolutionary perspective
Regional innovation patterns from an evolutionary perspective. Regional Studies. Based on the conceptual notion and empirical verification that innovation follows differentiated spatial patterns, the paper analyses the conditions that enable changes in regional innovation patterns. Consistently with evolutionary theory, these changes are interpreted as path-dependent processes characterized by trajectories and paradigms, understood as learning pr…
Territorial Capital and Regional Growth
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space‐economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and economic performance across geographical units. This paper addresses this intriguing issue at the regional lev…
Towards New Industrial and Spatial Systems
Globalization and Competitive Strategies in European Vulnerable Regions
Affuso A., Capello R. and Fratesi U. Globalization and competitive strategies in European vulnerable regions, Regional Studies. This paper highlights the role played by structural economic features and industrial competitive strategies in the performance of a group of European regions, defined as ‘vulnerable’ because of their specialization in industries particularly exposed to international trade. Different growth patterns emerge among them. The…
Beyond productivity slowdown
Breaking Down the Border
The literature on borders as barriers to economic growth presents some weaknesses in conceptualizing and measuring border effects due to obstacles of different nature (e.g., physical, institutional, and social/cultural). This article aims at overcoming this limitation by demonstrating that political borders actually comprise several lines of fracture in the continuity of socioeconomic space. As such, border effects must be decomposed into their b…
Indivisibilities, Synergy and Proximity
The aim of the paper is to present a review of the literature on agglomeration economies in a light such that it is possible to uncover the building blocks for use in a multidimentional approach to agglomeration economies. The paper claims that the different conceptual dimensions – industrial, socio‐cultural/cognitive and geographic – build upon the three micro‐foundations of agglomeration economies – indivisibility, synergy and proximity – and e…
Smile-and-go. Regional performance through global value chains in Europe
By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can establish favourable terms-of-trade. The results obtained at European regional level clearly show that regions rich of high and scarce skills and natural reso…
Citizens’ perception of Cohesion Policy
Since the Brexit referendum and the widespread resurgence of nationalisms, the future of the European Union has become an urgent issue. The idea of this paper is that Cohesion Policy might contribute to the process of European identity-building, and the intensity of this contribution depends on how citizens perceive European Union interventions. This study provides original evidence on the impact of certain characteristics of local policy setting…
Regional innovation evolution and economic performance
Conceptual reflections and empirical evidence on the evolution of regional innovation processes are increasing in recent years. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing on the long-term implications that evolutionary changes in regional innovation patterns – intended as alternative combinations of territorial structural conditions and phases of the innovation process – can have on regional economic dynamics. By applying the regional inno…
Towards New Industrial and Spatial Systems
Regional Variations in Production Network Externalities
CAPELLO R. and NIJKAMP P. (1996) Regional variations in production network externalities, Reg. Studies, 30, 225–237. In the present paper the main area of analysis is the concept of network externalities and its interpretation from a theoretical, conceptual and empirical point of view. A conceptual framework is built on the proposition that network externalities are one of the decisive reasons for entering a telecommunication network. Since exter…
Towards sustainable city policy
Spatial Transfer of Knowledge in High Technology Milieux
CAPELLO R. (1999) Spatial transfer of knowledge in high technology milieux: learning versus collective learning processes, Reg. Studies 33 , 353‐365 . An analysis of the definitions provided so far in the literature shows ambiguities in the conceptualization of collective learning. A parallel analysis of the concepts of learning and collective learning is provided, and similarities and differences underlined. One of the main distinguishing featur…
The City Network Paradigm
In recent years, network behaviour has been analysed extensively as the emerging model for economic growth. By network behaviour, a metaphor for co-operative behaviour among individuals, corporate or territorial partners is intended. This is increasingly becoming the reference paradigm in an era of continuing innovation and fast technological change, in the presence of 'market failure' where dynamic and innovative behaviours are concerned and of …
Beyond Optimal City Size
The aim of the paper is to present a critical view of theoretical works on city size. We begin with the consideration that, during the 1960s and 1970s, the question of optimal city size tended to be expressed in a misleading way. The real issue is not 'optimal city size' but 'efficient size', which depends on the functional characteristics of the city and on the spatial organisation within the urban system. Economies of scale exist up to a certai…
In search of sustainable human settlements
An economic-ecological model of urban growth and urban externalities
Collective Learning and Relational Capital in Local Innovation Processes
Capello R. and Faggian A. (2005) Collective learning and relational capital in local innovation processes, Regional Studies39, 75-87. Innovative capacity of firms has traditionally been explained through intra-firm characteristics. In the more recent literature, much emphasis has been put on determinants that are external to the firm. These external factors, called knowledge spillovers, refer to the positive externalities that firms receive in te…
Spatial Transfer of Knowledge in High Technology Milieux
Indivisibilities, Synergy and Proximity
The aim of the paper is to present a review of the literature on agglomeration economies in a light such that it is possible to uncover the building blocks for use in a multidimentional approach to agglomeration economies. The paper claims that the different conceptual dimensions – industrial, socio‐cultural/cognitive and geographic – build upon the three micro‐foundations of agglomeration economies – indivisibility, synergy and proximity – and e…
Modelling European Regional Scenarios
The aim of the paper is to tackle the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years by providing quali–quantitative territorial scenarios for an enlarged Europe, under different assumptions about the future direction in which the driving forces affecting development will move. Based on an econometric model, called MASST, two scenarios are built on the bases of alternative strategies put in place by the EU 15, …
Globalization and Competitive Strategies in European Vulnerable Regions
Affuso A., Capello R. and Fratesi U. Globalization and competitive strategies in European vulnerable regions, Regional Studies. This paper highlights the role played by structural economic features and industrial competitive strategies in the performance of a group of European regions, defined as ‘vulnerable’ because of their specialization in industries particularly exposed to international trade. Different growth patterns emerge among them. The…
A Handbook of Industrial Districts
A Handbook of Industrial Districts, Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi and Lisa De Propris (Eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2009). xxxv + 863 pp. £160.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 1 84720 267 3. Industrial di
Territorial Capital and Regional Growth
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space‐economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and economic performance across geographical units. This paper addresses this intriguing issue at the regional lev…
Globalization Trends and Regional Development
Contents: Globalization Trends and its Challenges for Regional Development Roberta Capello and Tomaz Dentinho PART I: NEW GLOBALIZATION TRENDS 1. Globalization and the Geographical Growth Patterns Joao Luis Cesar das Neves 2. Globalisation and Economic Crisis: How Will the Future of European Regions Look Like? Roberto Camagni and Roberta Capello 3. The Co-evolution of Logistics, Globalization, and Spatial Price Competition: Implications for a Uni…
Technological interdependence and regional growth in Europe
Regional Competitiveness and Territorial Capital
Camagni R. and Capello R. Regional competitiveness and territorial capital: a conceptual approach and empirical evidence from the European Union, Regional Studies. Today, a selective pattern of regional growth is emerging to differentiate single regions' growth and determine a varied mosaic of development stories. This fact calls for more stringent and selective interpretations of the different regional assets defining growth strategies for each …
Regional Innovation Patterns and the EU Regional Policy Reform
The present debate on regional policy design to fit the E urope 2020 A genda calls for additional reflections on the way sectoral policies, like innovation policies, can be translated appropriately into a regional setting. The paper enters the debate on smart specialization strategies by stressing the need to overcome the simplistic dichotomy between core and periphery in the U nion and between an advanced “research area” (the core) and a “co‐app…
A new team for new challenges
Reinforcing the tradition and picking up new challenges
Knowledge, Innovation and Productivity Gains across European Regions
Capello R. and Lenzi C. Knowledge, innovation and productivity gains across European regions, Regional Studies. This paper studies the relationship between knowledge, innovation and productivity in European regions, looking for the sources of spatial heterogeneity across regions in the type of knowledge needed for innovation and in the propensity to innovate, which mostly depend upon specific and systemic context conditions. The conceptual framew…
Openness to Globalization and Regional Growth Patterns in CEE Countries
In the last decades a deep process of institutional reforms and economic reorganization took place in central and eastern EU countries ( CEE ). These changes occurred in a context of general economic integration. On the one hand, the E uropean U nion enlargement programme was launched and all CEE countries applied to become EU member between 1994 and 1996. On the other hand, the globalization of the world economy characterized this historical pha…
The Rise of Second-Rank Cities
In the last 15 years, empirical evidence has emerged about the fact that European first-rank cities have not always led national economic performance, and when they did, the difference between first- and second-rank cities in explaining national growth has not been significant. A recent work [Dijkstra, L., Garcilazo, E. & McCann, P. (2013) The economic performance of European cities and city regions: Myths and realities, European Planning Studies…
After crisis scenarios for Europe
Structural adjustment in the European Union emerged as the result of the 7-year crisis, providing risks and opportunities to national and regional economies. The effects that these structural changes will generate are difficult to be foreseen. This article builds after-crisis scenarios for Europe on the basis of alternative evolutions of these structural changes. On the basis of a regional forecasting model (MASST3), the article presents two oppo…
Economics (55 obras) · Economic geography (43 obras) · Regional Development and Policy (42 obras) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (37 obras) · Geography (32 obras) · Political science (32 obras) · Computer Science (27 obras) · Business (25 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Regional resilience and development (22 obras)