Camilla Lenzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 271926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilla Lenzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenzi |
| SIGNATURE | LENZI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0880-3516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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…
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…
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…
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…
The work of the future. Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines
Papers in Regional ScienceEarly View BOOK REVIEW The work of the future. Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines. David Autor, David Mindell and Elisabeth Reynolds. The MIT Press, 2021. 178 pages, 29.95 US $ ISBN: 9780262046367 Camilla Lenzi, Corresponding Author Camilla Lenzi [email protected] ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, ItalySearch for more papers by this author Camilla Lenzi, Corresponding Author Camilla Lenzi c…
No Place for Poor Men
The literature on the geography of subjective well-being largely converges in pointing out the occurrence, at least in developed countries, of an urban/rural divide: people living in the most urbanized regions tend to be significantly less satisfied than those living in rural areas. This paper aims at reassessing this statement by taking into consideration an important aspect, frequently overlooked in the literature, i.e. people-based characteris…
Industry 4.0 and servitisation
Not too close, not too far
Empirical evidence on the effect of urbanisation on individual self-reported well-being generally points to a negative effect of urbanisation and city size, at least in most developed economies. This article aims to re-assess this conclusion by claiming that this approach overlooks the fact that a city’s positive externalities may expand well beyond the urban boundaries, as postulated in urban economics theory. Based on survey data on self-report…
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 …
People or Places that Don't Matter? Individual and Contextual Determinants of the Geography of Discontent
The rise of a geography of political discontent in the EU documented in recent studies highlights a strong spatial association between antisystem voting, regional economic decline, and poor occupational opportunities, suggesting that economic disparities within the EU are the origin of some of the most recent and shocking political events like Brexit. This article reexamines this statement by disentangling the effect on individual and political d…
Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective
This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A series of key challenges are considered in depth from a multidisciplinary perspective, spanning engineering, architecture, and regional and urban economics. These challenges include …
The nexus between innovation and wellbeing across the EU space
The importance of innovation for economic performance and competitiveness, whatever the level of analysis adopted, is uncontroversial. Yet little is known about the relationship between innovation and (subjective) wellbeing. This paper empirically studies this issue in a spatial perspective by arguing that the expected positive link between innovation and wellbeing can be even more complex than might be thought, and by testing the expectation tha…
The curse of natural resources
The paper investigates the existence of a natural resource curse, from a within-country perspective. This perspective tends to be overlooked in the existing literature, which provides extensive country-level analyses of the issue. In particular, the paper examines the relationship between agriculture and mining and quarrying resources endowments and regional economic growth, over the period 2007–16, for 260 European Union regions. The results, wh…
The pursuit of economic development
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…
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…
Structural dynamics of regional innovation patterns in Europe
The role of inventors’ mobility on the innovative capacity of the host region has largely been highlighted, measured and empirically proved. In this work, the perspective is a rather different one. The paper assesses the role that the flow of inventors and high-skilled technicians has on the region's capacity to modify its structural mode of innovation. By applying the regional patterns of innovation framework in a dynamic perspective, it is show…
Life Satisfaction across Cities
Based on the literature on agglomeration economies and studies on life satisfaction, especially with regard to Central and Eastern European countries, this article focuses on subjective wellbeing in Romania between 1996 and 2011. The findings indicate that life satisfaction was greater in larger cities, although the positive effects of agglomeration held up to a certain threshold. These effects were both direct (people living in large cities were…
Innovation modes and entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics in regional growth
Are urbanized areas source of life satisfaction? Evidence from EU regions
Co-invention networks and inventive productivity in US cities
The Role of External Linkages and Gatekeepers for the Renewal and Expansion of US Cities' Knowledge Base, 1990–2004
Breschi S. and Lenzi C. The role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of US cities' knowledge base, 1990-2004, Regional Studies . This paper examines the role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of cities' knowledge base in US metropolitan co-invention networks. It is argued that the relative importance of direct external linkages and external relations mediated by gatekeepers varies ac…
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…
Local Labour Markets and the Interregional Mobility of Italian University Students
This paper looks at a little-explored role that universities can play: that of representing a channel for brain gain, enabling regions to attract bright students who may decide to stay after they have graduated. In this way, universities can be a source of selective migration processes and possibly of diverging development paths, by augmenting the capability of economically dynamic regions to attract bright people from the lagging regions. In thi…
The Role of External Linkages and Gatekeepers for the Renewal and Expansion of US Cities' Knowledge Base, 1990–2004
Breschi S. and Lenzi C. The role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of US cities' knowledge base, 1990-2004, Regional Studies . This paper examines the role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of cities' knowledge base in US metropolitan co-invention networks. It is argued that the relative importance of direct external linkages and external relations mediated by gatekeepers varies ac…
People or Places that Don't Matter? Individual and Contextual Determinants of the Geography of Discontent
The rise of a geography of political discontent in the EU documented in recent studies highlights a strong spatial association between antisystem voting, regional economic decline, and poor occupational opportunities, suggesting that economic disparities within the EU are the origin of some of the most recent and shocking political events like Brexit. This article reexamines this statement by disentangling the effect on individual and political d…
Are urbanized areas source of life satisfaction? Evidence from EU regions
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 …
Co-invention networks and inventive productivity in US cities
Not too close, not too far
Empirical evidence on the effect of urbanisation on individual self-reported well-being generally points to a negative effect of urbanisation and city size, at least in most developed economies. This article aims to re-assess this conclusion by claiming that this approach overlooks the fact that a city’s positive externalities may expand well beyond the urban boundaries, as postulated in urban economics theory. Based on survey data on self-report…
The curse of natural resources
The paper investigates the existence of a natural resource curse, from a within-country perspective. This perspective tends to be overlooked in the existing literature, which provides extensive country-level analyses of the issue. In particular, the paper examines the relationship between agriculture and mining and quarrying resources endowments and regional economic growth, over the period 2007–16, for 260 European Union regions. The results, wh…
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…
Spatial patterns of inventors' mobility
No Place for Poor Men
The literature on the geography of subjective well-being largely converges in pointing out the occurrence, at least in developed countries, of an urban/rural divide: people living in the most urbanized regions tend to be significantly less satisfied than those living in rural areas. This paper aims at reassessing this statement by taking into consideration an important aspect, frequently overlooked in the literature, i.e. people-based characteris…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The nexus between innovation and wellbeing across the EU space
The importance of innovation for economic performance and competitiveness, whatever the level of analysis adopted, is uncontroversial. Yet little is known about the relationship between innovation and (subjective) wellbeing. This paper empirically studies this issue in a spatial perspective by arguing that the expected positive link between innovation and wellbeing can be even more complex than might be thought, and by testing the expectation tha…
Spatial patterns of inventors' mobility
Local Labour Markets and the Interregional Mobility of Italian University Students
This paper looks at a little-explored role that universities can play: that of representing a channel for brain gain, enabling regions to attract bright students who may decide to stay after they have graduated. In this way, universities can be a source of selective migration processes and possibly of diverging development paths, by augmenting the capability of economically dynamic regions to attract bright people from the lagging regions. In thi…
The Role of External Linkages and Gatekeepers for the Renewal and Expansion of US Cities' Knowledge Base, 1990–2004
Breschi S. and Lenzi C. The role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of US cities' knowledge base, 1990-2004, Regional Studies . This paper examines the role of external linkages and gatekeepers for the renewal and expansion of cities' knowledge base in US metropolitan co-invention networks. It is argued that the relative importance of direct external linkages and external relations mediated by gatekeepers varies ac…
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…
Life Satisfaction across Cities
Based on the literature on agglomeration economies and studies on life satisfaction, especially with regard to Central and Eastern European countries, this article focuses on subjective wellbeing in Romania between 1996 and 2011. The findings indicate that life satisfaction was greater in larger cities, although the positive effects of agglomeration held up to a certain threshold. These effects were both direct (people living in large cities were…
Innovation modes and entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics in regional growth
Are urbanized areas source of life satisfaction? Evidence from EU regions
Co-invention networks and inventive productivity in US cities
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…
Structural dynamics of regional innovation patterns in Europe
The role of inventors’ mobility on the innovative capacity of the host region has largely been highlighted, measured and empirically proved. In this work, the perspective is a rather different one. The paper assesses the role that the flow of inventors and high-skilled technicians has on the region's capacity to modify its structural mode of innovation. By applying the regional patterns of innovation framework in a dynamic perspective, it is show…
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…
The pursuit of economic development
Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective
This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A series of key challenges are considered in depth from a multidisciplinary perspective, spanning engineering, architecture, and regional and urban economics. These challenges include …
The nexus between innovation and wellbeing across the EU space
The importance of innovation for economic performance and competitiveness, whatever the level of analysis adopted, is uncontroversial. Yet little is known about the relationship between innovation and (subjective) wellbeing. This paper empirically studies this issue in a spatial perspective by arguing that the expected positive link between innovation and wellbeing can be even more complex than might be thought, and by testing the expectation tha…
The curse of natural resources
The paper investigates the existence of a natural resource curse, from a within-country perspective. This perspective tends to be overlooked in the existing literature, which provides extensive country-level analyses of the issue. In particular, the paper examines the relationship between agriculture and mining and quarrying resources endowments and regional economic growth, over the period 2007–16, for 260 European Union regions. The results, wh…
Industry 4.0 and servitisation
Not too close, not too far
Empirical evidence on the effect of urbanisation on individual self-reported well-being generally points to a negative effect of urbanisation and city size, at least in most developed economies. This article aims to re-assess this conclusion by claiming that this approach overlooks the fact that a city’s positive externalities may expand well beyond the urban boundaries, as postulated in urban economics theory. Based on survey data on self-report…
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 …
People or Places that Don't Matter? Individual and Contextual Determinants of the Geography of Discontent
The rise of a geography of political discontent in the EU documented in recent studies highlights a strong spatial association between antisystem voting, regional economic decline, and poor occupational opportunities, suggesting that economic disparities within the EU are the origin of some of the most recent and shocking political events like Brexit. This article reexamines this statement by disentangling the effect on individual and political d…
The work of the future. Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines
Papers in Regional ScienceEarly View BOOK REVIEW The work of the future. Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines. David Autor, David Mindell and Elisabeth Reynolds. The MIT Press, 2021. 178 pages, 29.95 US $ ISBN: 9780262046367 Camilla Lenzi, Corresponding Author Camilla Lenzi [email protected] ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, ItalySearch for more papers by this author Camilla Lenzi, Corresponding Author Camilla Lenzi c…
No Place for Poor Men
The literature on the geography of subjective well-being largely converges in pointing out the occurrence, at least in developed countries, of an urban/rural divide: people living in the most urbanized regions tend to be significantly less satisfied than those living in rural areas. This paper aims at reassessing this statement by taking into consideration an important aspect, frequently overlooked in the literature, i.e. people-based characteris…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Economics (21 works) · Economic geography (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Regional resilience and development (11 works) · Regional Development and Policy (9 works)