Alessandra Colombelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandra Colombelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Colombelli |
| SIGNATURE | COLOMBELLI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Torino |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4513-8612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adopting artificial intelligence in small and medium businesses: The knowledge-based perspective
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key technology that small and medium businesses (SMBs) utilize to process big data, use robots for industrial and service objectives and be able to grow, innovate and collaborate given the paucity of resources. This study examines how investments in organizational, technological and external (environmental) knowledge shape AI adoption following the Technology – Organizational – Environment (TOE) theor…
Open innovation in tourism micro-firms: Evidence from the Italian Alps
This study examines the relationship between openness to external collaborations and innovation outcomes in tourism micro-firms, considering the variety of partners, the geographical outreach of the relationships, and the number of implemented innovation types. A quantitative analysis of tourism micro-firms located in the Italian Alps is complemented with rich qualitative evidence gathered through follow-up interviews. Our findings show that high…
The creation of digital innovative start-ups: The role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment
Building on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KSTE) and the Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (DEE) approach, this paper investigates the relationship between the local availability of digital knowledge (i.e., digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment) and the creation of digital innovative start-ups in Italian NUTS3 regions. The obtained results show that both elements are significant for the creation of digital …
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘Green’ and Socially-Responsible Companies
We explore the link between women in business decision-making roles, regional gender equality in the workforce and start-up sustainability. We employ unique administrative data on innovative start-ups in Italy and implement a novel crawler-based semantic search of start-ups’ websites to identify ‘green’ firms. Our findings on high-tech innovative start-ups confirm established evidence in the female entrepreneurship literature: greater shares of w…
The impact of university patenting on the technological specialization of European regions: A technology-level analysis
This study investigates the relationship between the entry of universities into a new technology field and the innovative activities of firms located in the same geographical area. We aim to assess the presence of a significant correlation between academic research and technological specialization. The empirical setting is based on a dataset of 846,440 patent families, the output of 256 European regions and 428 local universities. The results of …
Firms’ growth, green gazelles and eco-innovation: Evidence from a sample of European firms
Local knowledge composition and the emergence of entrepreneurial activities across industries: Evidence from Italian Nuts-3 regions
Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter
We examine whether the existing stock of immigrant firms induces more new firms of the same nationality in the same sector and province. We carry out the analysis by using Italian administrative data on the population of individual firms observed over the time window 2002–13. We find support for a strong attractiveness (pulling) effect, which significantly differs by gender, with female immigrant entrepreneurs showing a lower reactiveness to the …
Are social incubators different from other incubators? Evidence from Italy
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Newborn Firms and Regional Diversification Patterns: The Role of Cultural Diversity
We blend the economics of diversity and evolutionary economic geography theories and study the relationship between the cultural diversity of foreign-born entrepreneurs and regional sectoral diversification, proxied by the sectoral variety of newborn firms. We focus on Italian evidence and use a unique data set that stems from a combination of different sources of information, including the Union of the Chambers of Commerce, the OECD, and the Nat…
Hierarchical and relational governance and the life cycle of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Rethinking regions in turbulent times
We live in turbulent times, but when has this not been the case? The history of regions and the ‘regional studies project’ has always had at its core concerns relating to new and increased social and spatial inequalities resulting from economic and political change. Whatever change has occurred to cause this turbulence, some people and places have taken advantage and raced ahead, while others were disadvantaged and left behind. The difference tod…
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge. Regional Studies. This paper provides an extended Crépon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM) approach to analyse jointly the simultaneous effects of knowledge spillovers in the knowledge-generation and technology production functions. It introduces the distinction between imitation and knowledge externalities and articulates the hypothesis that spillovers yield their effects via three well-distinc…
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Rethinking regions in turbulent times
We live in turbulent times, but when has this not been the case? The history of regions and the ‘regional studies project’ has always had at its core concerns relating to new and increased social and spatial inequalities resulting from economic and political change. Whatever change has occurred to cause this turbulence, some people and places have taken advantage and raced ahead, while others were disadvantaged and left behind. The difference tod…
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge. Regional Studies. This paper provides an extended Crépon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM) approach to analyse jointly the simultaneous effects of knowledge spillovers in the knowledge-generation and technology production functions. It introduces the distinction between imitation and knowledge externalities and articulates the hypothesis that spillovers yield their effects via three well-distinc…
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge
The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge. Regional Studies. This paper provides an extended Crépon–Duguet–Mairesse (CDM) approach to analyse jointly the simultaneous effects of knowledge spillovers in the knowledge-generation and technology production functions. It introduces the distinction between imitation and knowledge externalities and articulates the hypothesis that spillovers yield their effects via three well-distinc…
Hierarchical and relational governance and the life cycle of entrepreneurial ecosystems
Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Rethinking regions in turbulent times
We live in turbulent times, but when has this not been the case? The history of regions and the ‘regional studies project’ has always had at its core concerns relating to new and increased social and spatial inequalities resulting from economic and political change. Whatever change has occurred to cause this turbulence, some people and places have taken advantage and raced ahead, while others were disadvantaged and left behind. The difference tod…
Are social incubators different from other incubators? Evidence from Italy
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Newborn Firms and Regional Diversification Patterns: The Role of Cultural Diversity
We blend the economics of diversity and evolutionary economic geography theories and study the relationship between the cultural diversity of foreign-born entrepreneurs and regional sectoral diversification, proxied by the sectoral variety of newborn firms. We focus on Italian evidence and use a unique data set that stems from a combination of different sources of information, including the Union of the Chambers of Commerce, the OECD, and the Nat…
Firms’ growth, green gazelles and eco-innovation: Evidence from a sample of European firms
Local knowledge composition and the emergence of entrepreneurial activities across industries: Evidence from Italian Nuts-3 regions
Pulling Effects in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter
We examine whether the existing stock of immigrant firms induces more new firms of the same nationality in the same sector and province. We carry out the analysis by using Italian administrative data on the population of individual firms observed over the time window 2002–13. We find support for a strong attractiveness (pulling) effect, which significantly differs by gender, with female immigrant entrepreneurs showing a lower reactiveness to the …
The impact of university patenting on the technological specialization of European regions: A technology-level analysis
This study investigates the relationship between the entry of universities into a new technology field and the innovative activities of firms located in the same geographical area. We aim to assess the presence of a significant correlation between academic research and technological specialization. The empirical setting is based on a dataset of 846,440 patent families, the output of 256 European regions and 428 local universities. The results of …
Open innovation in tourism micro-firms: Evidence from the Italian Alps
This study examines the relationship between openness to external collaborations and innovation outcomes in tourism micro-firms, considering the variety of partners, the geographical outreach of the relationships, and the number of implemented innovation types. A quantitative analysis of tourism micro-firms located in the Italian Alps is complemented with rich qualitative evidence gathered through follow-up interviews. Our findings show that high…
The creation of digital innovative start-ups: The role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment
Building on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KSTE) and the Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (DEE) approach, this paper investigates the relationship between the local availability of digital knowledge (i.e., digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment) and the creation of digital innovative start-ups in Italian NUTS3 regions. The obtained results show that both elements are significant for the creation of digital …
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘Green’ and Socially-Responsible Companies
We explore the link between women in business decision-making roles, regional gender equality in the workforce and start-up sustainability. We employ unique administrative data on innovative start-ups in Italy and implement a novel crawler-based semantic search of start-ups’ websites to identify ‘green’ firms. Our findings on high-tech innovative start-ups confirm established evidence in the female entrepreneurship literature: greater shares of w…
Adopting artificial intelligence in small and medium businesses: The knowledge-based perspective
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key technology that small and medium businesses (SMBs) utilize to process big data, use robots for industrial and service objectives and be able to grow, innovate and collaborate given the paucity of resources. This study examines how investments in organizational, technological and external (environmental) knowledge shape AI adoption following the Technology – Organizational – Environment (TOE) theor…
Economics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (9 works) · Industrial organization (8 works) · Entrepreneurship (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (5 works) · Marketing (5 works)