Sergio G Petralia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1752346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio G Petralia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio G |
| FAMILY NAME | Petralia |
| SIGNATURE | PETRALIA S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5449-2758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Regional development traps in Europe: A Study of Occupational Trajectories of Regions
This paper presents an evolutionary perspective on regional development traps that centres around the structural inability of regions to develop new and complex occupations. Using the European Labour Force Survey, we follow occupational trajectories of 237 European regions and provide evidence on which regions are trapped, what kinds of traps they have fallen into and which regions have managed to escape such traps. We find a clear-cut divide in …
Open source software as digital platforms to innovate
Multinationals, innovation, and institutional context: IPR protection and distance effects
We characterize the knowledge production process whereby the inventive capabilities of the firm generate innovation output in highly inventive multinational enterprises (MNEs). We explore the sensitivity of this relationship to the strength of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection across the MNEs R&D subsidiaries. We argue that MNE innovative performance will be enhanced when the firm’s R&D activities are based in locations where IPR prot…
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality
Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic growth, its role in shaping patterns of inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels across two industrial revolutions in the United States, this paper provides new evidence of a relationship between highly disruptive forms of innovation and spatial inequality. Using the universe of patents granted between 1920 and 2010 by the US Patent and Trademar…
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration
More than 30 million people migrated to the USA between late-ninetieth and early-twentieth century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the USA, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants’ patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrant…
The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions
Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities
Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
It is widely accepted within the innovation and development literatures that some industries offer higher potential for growth and development than others. The general idea is that industries with high technological dynamism offer higher potential for growth and development. There is still a large element of uncertainty, however, as to which are the most dynamic industries for each country. This paper proposes to use the concept of technological …
Climbing the ladder of technological development
Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration
More than 30 million people migrated to the USA between late-ninetieth and early-twentieth century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the USA, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants’ patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrant…
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality
Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic growth, its role in shaping patterns of inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels across two industrial revolutions in the United States, this paper provides new evidence of a relationship between highly disruptive forms of innovation and spatial inequality. Using the universe of patents granted between 1920 and 2010 by the US Patent and Trademar…
Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
It is widely accepted within the innovation and development literatures that some industries offer higher potential for growth and development than others. The general idea is that industries with high technological dynamism offer higher potential for growth and development. There is still a large element of uncertainty, however, as to which are the most dynamic industries for each country. This paper proposes to use the concept of technological …
The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions
Regional development traps in Europe: A Study of Occupational Trajectories of Regions
This paper presents an evolutionary perspective on regional development traps that centres around the structural inability of regions to develop new and complex occupations. Using the European Labour Force Survey, we follow occupational trajectories of 237 European regions and provide evidence on which regions are trapped, what kinds of traps they have fallen into and which regions have managed to escape such traps. We find a clear-cut divide in …
Climbing the ladder of technological development
Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: The cases of Argentina and Brazil
It is widely accepted within the innovation and development literatures that some industries offer higher potential for growth and development than others. The general idea is that industries with high technological dynamism offer higher potential for growth and development. There is still a large element of uncertainty, however, as to which are the most dynamic industries for each country. This paper proposes to use the concept of technological …
Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration
More than 30 million people migrated to the USA between late-ninetieth and early-twentieth century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the USA, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants’ patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrant…
The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions
Multinationals, innovation, and institutional context: IPR protection and distance effects
We characterize the knowledge production process whereby the inventive capabilities of the firm generate innovation output in highly inventive multinational enterprises (MNEs). We explore the sensitivity of this relationship to the strength of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection across the MNEs R&D subsidiaries. We argue that MNE innovative performance will be enhanced when the firm’s R&D activities are based in locations where IPR prot…
Disruptive innovation and spatial inequality
Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic growth, its role in shaping patterns of inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels across two industrial revolutions in the United States, this paper provides new evidence of a relationship between highly disruptive forms of innovation and spatial inequality. Using the universe of patents granted between 1920 and 2010 by the US Patent and Trademar…
Open source software as digital platforms to innovate
Regional development traps in Europe: A Study of Occupational Trajectories of Regions
This paper presents an evolutionary perspective on regional development traps that centres around the structural inability of regions to develop new and complex occupations. Using the European Labour Force Survey, we follow occupational trajectories of 237 European regions and provide evidence on which regions are trapped, what kinds of traps they have fallen into and which regions have managed to escape such traps. We find a clear-cut divide in …
Economic geography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (5 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (4 works) · Industrial organization (4 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Political science (3 works)