Francesco Quatraro
Biographic Data
| ID | 950361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Quatraro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Quatraro |
| SIGNATURE | QUATRARO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegio Carlo Alberto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5746-2239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Measuring Corporate Alignment With the Circular Economy: A Text‐Based Circularity Index From Mandatory Non‐Financial Disclosures
The transition to a circular economy (CE) has become a strategic priority for firms, yet empirical assessments of corporate circularity remain fragmented and heavily dependent on structured indicators or self‐reported metrics. This paper proposes a novel, text‐based circularity index derived from mandatory non‐financial statements of large Italian companies. Using a corpus of FTSE MIB sustainability reports (2017–2022), we compute cosine similari…
The skill requirements of the circular economy
In response to global challenges related to resource scarcity and environmental concerns, the circular economy (CE) has emerged as a transformative model focused on resource efficiency and waste reduction. As the discourse around the CE intensifies, understanding the skill requirements of the CE becomes imperative for effective policy-making, workforce development, and regional competitiveness. This paper addresses the scarcity of quantitative me…
The role of the technological capacity of regional partners on technological branching
This study examines the often-underexplored roles of regional linkages and the technological capacity of partner regions in shaping technological branching, particularly in a developing country context. Analysing 127 technology classes across 136 Brazilian regions from 1997 to 2020, we identify that different types of regional linkages are associated with distinct patterns in regional technological trajectories. Intraregional linkages are associa…
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: The Italian evidence
This article investigates the interplay between scientific and technological capabilities in regional technological diversification dynamics by looking at the contributions of academic inventors. Combining the evolutionary economic approach and the theories on regional innovation capabilities on the one hand, and the distinctive features of academic inventors and university–industry patenting on the other, we hypothesize that the participation of…
Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: Do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter
This paper investigates the relationship between local knowledge bases and recombinant dynamics in circular economy (CE) technologies. We focus on the role of accumulated green and digital complementary capabilities and posit that they are positively associated to the regional ability to absorb and integrate new technological opportunities in CE-based recombinations. The empirical analysis, conducted on a dataset of European NUTS2 regions over th…
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation
Knowledge spillovers have been identified as a factor affecting the unequal distribution of innovation in space. In this paper we aim to understand how territorial factors shape the novelty degree of innovations. Thus, we perform an empirical analysis that relates territorial factors to innovative performance at the firm level. Our results show that local knowledge spillovers from research and development expenditures are positively associated wi…
Green technological diversification and regional recombinant capabilities: The role of technological novelty and academic inventors
We study the entry of regions in new green technological specializations, specifically investigating the role of recombinant novelty and academic inventors and the interplay between the two. We conduct an empirical analysis on a panel of Italian NUTS-3 regions observed from 1999 to 2009. The results show that both recombinant novelty and the presence of academic inventors are positively associated with new entries in green technological specializ…
Resilience, Skill Endowment, and Diversity: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
This article investigates the role of technological, industrial, and human capital composition in shaping short-term regional resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008. Using data on 295 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas over the period 2008–14, we find that the most resilient regions feature a very diversified industrial structure. At the same time, an excess of technological diversity thwarts the ability to absorb external shocks. L…
Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of Covid-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development
Recovery agenda for sustainable development post Covid-19 at the country level: Developing a fuzzy action priority surface
As a response to the urgent call for recovery actions against the COVID-19 crisis, this research aims to identify action priority areas post COVID-19 toward achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development launched by the United Nations (UN). This paper applies a mixed-method approach to map the post-COVID-19 SDGs targets on a fuzzy action priority surface at the country level in…
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
Drivers of growth in Tunisia: Young firms vs incumbents
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…
Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Academic Inventors and the Antecedents of Green Technologies. A Regional Analysis of Italian Patent Data
Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: An empirical analysis of Spanish regions
This paper investigates the impact of migration on innovation networks between regions and foreign countries. It posits that immigrants (emigrants) act as a transnational knowledge bridge between the host (home) regions and their origin (destination) countries, thus facilitating their co-inventorship networks. It also argues that the social capital of both the hosting and the moving communities reinforces such a bridging role, along with language…
Green Technologies and Environmental Productivity: A Cross-sectoral Analysis of Direct and Indirect Effects in Italian Regions
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks. Regional Studies. This editorial introduces the articles addressing the multifaceted and composite phenomenon of knowledge flows and externalities within innovation networks. The papers offer a diversity of country contexts, as well as analytical approaches and methods. Starting with methods, they contain econometric analysis as well as social network analysis and combinations of the two. Wh…
Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data
This article investigates the role of key enabling technologies (KETs) in regional branching. Taking into account the general purpose properties of these technologies, and referring to recombinant innovation theories, we argue that KETs knowledge could attenuate the effect that regional branching ascribes to technological relatedness, giving regions more scope for their technological diversification strategies. Furthermore, we claim that regions …
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions. Regional Studies. The paper investigates the impact of distance, contiguity and technological proximity on cross-regional knowledge flows by comparing the evidence concerning co-inventorship, applicant–inventor relationships and citation flows. Evidence is found of significant differences across these diverse kinds of knowledge flows for what concerns the role of distance, and the mod…
Co-evolutionary Patterns in Regional Knowledge Bases and Economic Structure: Evidence from European Regions
Quatraro F. Co-evolutionary patterns in regional knowledge bases and economic structure: evidence from European regions, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the co-evolutionary patterns of structural change in knowledge and economics. The former is made operational through an analysis of co-occurrences of technological classes in patent documents in order to derive indicators of coherence, variety and cognitive distance. The latter is made oper…
Beyond inducement in climate change: Does environmental performance spur environmental technologies? A regional analysis of cross-sectoral differences
Localized Technological Change and Efficiency Wages across European Regional Labour Markets
Antonelli C. and Quatraro F. Localized technological change and efficiency wages across European regional labour markets, Regional Studies. Internal labour markets and industrial relations in Continental Europe are characterized by substantial rigidity of employed labour engendered by the tight conditions of regional labour markets. This rigidity affects both the rate and the direction of technological change. The increase of wages induces the lo…
Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economies in European Regions
The article investigates the effects of the agglomeration of technological activities on the growth in regional productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. Pecuniary knowledge externalities enable one to appreciate both the gains and losses associated with the regional concentration of knowledge-generating activities. Both are two sides of the same coin. The gains are due to the reduction in the prices of knowledge as …
Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data
This article investigates the role of key enabling technologies (KETs) in regional branching. Taking into account the general purpose properties of these technologies, and referring to recombinant innovation theories, we argue that KETs knowledge could attenuate the effect that regional branching ascribes to technological relatedness, giving regions more scope for their technological diversification strategies. Furthermore, we claim that regions …
Diffusion of Regional Innovation Capabilities: Evidence from Italian Patent Data
Quatraro F. Diffusion of regional innovation capabilities: evidence from Italian patent data, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the diffusion of regional innovation capabilities within the manufacturing sector. The competence-based theory of the region allows for combining the Schumpeterian view upon innovation and business cycles and the growth poles theory. Innovation capabilities spread within the region after the expansion of the prop…
Resilience, Skill Endowment, and Diversity: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
This article investigates the role of technological, industrial, and human capital composition in shaping short-term regional resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008. Using data on 295 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas over the period 2008–14, we find that the most resilient regions feature a very diversified industrial structure. At the same time, an excess of technological diversity thwarts the ability to absorb external shocks. L…
Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: An empirical analysis of Spanish regions
This paper investigates the impact of migration on innovation networks between regions and foreign countries. It posits that immigrants (emigrants) act as a transnational knowledge bridge between the host (home) regions and their origin (destination) countries, thus facilitating their co-inventorship networks. It also argues that the social capital of both the hosting and the moving communities reinforces such a bridging role, along with language…
Beyond inducement in climate change: Does environmental performance spur environmental technologies? A regional analysis of cross-sectoral differences
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions. Regional Studies. The paper investigates the impact of distance, contiguity and technological proximity on cross-regional knowledge flows by comparing the evidence concerning co-inventorship, applicant–inventor relationships and citation flows. Evidence is found of significant differences across these diverse kinds of knowledge flows for what concerns the role of distance, and the mod…
Green technological diversification and regional recombinant capabilities: The role of technological novelty and academic inventors
We study the entry of regions in new green technological specializations, specifically investigating the role of recombinant novelty and academic inventors and the interplay between the two. We conduct an empirical analysis on a panel of Italian NUTS-3 regions observed from 1999 to 2009. The results show that both recombinant novelty and the presence of academic inventors are positively associated with new entries in green technological specializ…
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks. Regional Studies. This editorial introduces the articles addressing the multifaceted and composite phenomenon of knowledge flows and externalities within innovation networks. The papers offer a diversity of country contexts, as well as analytical approaches and methods. Starting with methods, they contain econometric analysis as well as social network analysis and combinations of the two. Wh…
Co-evolutionary Patterns in Regional Knowledge Bases and Economic Structure: Evidence from European Regions
Quatraro F. Co-evolutionary patterns in regional knowledge bases and economic structure: evidence from European regions, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the co-evolutionary patterns of structural change in knowledge and economics. The former is made operational through an analysis of co-occurrences of technological classes in patent documents in order to derive indicators of coherence, variety and cognitive distance. The latter is made oper…
Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economies in European Regions
The article investigates the effects of the agglomeration of technological activities on the growth in regional productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. Pecuniary knowledge externalities enable one to appreciate both the gains and losses associated with the regional concentration of knowledge-generating activities. Both are two sides of the same coin. The gains are due to the reduction in the prices of knowledge as …
Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: Do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter
This paper investigates the relationship between local knowledge bases and recombinant dynamics in circular economy (CE) technologies. We focus on the role of accumulated green and digital complementary capabilities and posit that they are positively associated to the regional ability to absorb and integrate new technological opportunities in CE-based recombinations. The empirical analysis, conducted on a dataset of European NUTS2 regions over th…
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation
Knowledge spillovers have been identified as a factor affecting the unequal distribution of innovation in space. In this paper we aim to understand how territorial factors shape the novelty degree of innovations. Thus, we perform an empirical analysis that relates territorial factors to innovative performance at the firm level. Our results show that local knowledge spillovers from research and development expenditures are positively associated wi…
An Ethno‐linguistic Approach to the Role of Services in Knowledge Transfer: The Case of the Innovation Relay Centre of Southern Italy 1
Given the recent resurgence of interest in the economics of language, this paper develops an original model addressing the issue of services role in knowledge transfer by merging economic literature regarding services and technology transfer with linguistic and semiotic theories. The heuristic virtues of the model are then tested by analyzing the case of the Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) of the Apulian region in Southern Italy. This choice was du…
Diffusion of Regional Innovation Capabilities: Evidence from Italian Patent Data
Quatraro F. Diffusion of regional innovation capabilities: evidence from Italian patent data, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the diffusion of regional innovation capabilities within the manufacturing sector. The competence-based theory of the region allows for combining the Schumpeterian view upon innovation and business cycles and the growth poles theory. Innovation capabilities spread within the region after the expansion of the prop…
Knowledge coherence, variety and economic growth: Manufacturing evidence from Italian regions
Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economies in European Regions
The article investigates the effects of the agglomeration of technological activities on the growth in regional productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. Pecuniary knowledge externalities enable one to appreciate both the gains and losses associated with the regional concentration of knowledge-generating activities. Both are two sides of the same coin. The gains are due to the reduction in the prices of knowledge as …
Localized Technological Change and Efficiency Wages across European Regional Labour Markets
Antonelli C. and Quatraro F. Localized technological change and efficiency wages across European regional labour markets, Regional Studies. Internal labour markets and industrial relations in Continental Europe are characterized by substantial rigidity of employed labour engendered by the tight conditions of regional labour markets. This rigidity affects both the rate and the direction of technological change. The increase of wages induces the lo…
Beyond inducement in climate change: Does environmental performance spur environmental technologies? A regional analysis of cross-sectoral differences
Co-evolutionary Patterns in Regional Knowledge Bases and Economic Structure: Evidence from European Regions
Quatraro F. Co-evolutionary patterns in regional knowledge bases and economic structure: evidence from European regions, Regional Studies. This paper analyses the co-evolutionary patterns of structural change in knowledge and economics. The former is made operational through an analysis of co-occurrences of technological classes in patent documents in order to derive indicators of coherence, variety and cognitive distance. The latter is made oper…
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions
Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions. Regional Studies. The paper investigates the impact of distance, contiguity and technological proximity on cross-regional knowledge flows by comparing the evidence concerning co-inventorship, applicant–inventor relationships and citation flows. Evidence is found of significant differences across these diverse kinds of knowledge flows for what concerns the role of distance, and the mod…
Green Technologies and Environmental Productivity: A Cross-sectoral Analysis of Direct and Indirect Effects in Italian Regions
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks
Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks. Regional Studies. This editorial introduces the articles addressing the multifaceted and composite phenomenon of knowledge flows and externalities within innovation networks. The papers offer a diversity of country contexts, as well as analytical approaches and methods. Starting with methods, they contain econometric analysis as well as social network analysis and combinations of the two. Wh…
Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data
This article investigates the role of key enabling technologies (KETs) in regional branching. Taking into account the general purpose properties of these technologies, and referring to recombinant innovation theories, we argue that KETs knowledge could attenuate the effect that regional branching ascribes to technological relatedness, giving regions more scope for their technological diversification strategies. Furthermore, we claim that regions …
Migration, communities on the move and international innovation networks: An empirical analysis of Spanish regions
This paper investigates the impact of migration on innovation networks between regions and foreign countries. It posits that immigrants (emigrants) act as a transnational knowledge bridge between the host (home) regions and their origin (destination) countries, thus facilitating their co-inventorship networks. It also argues that the social capital of both the hosting and the moving communities reinforces such a bridging role, along with language…
Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Academic Inventors and the Antecedents of Green Technologies. A Regional Analysis of Italian Patent Data
Drivers of growth in Tunisia: Young firms vs incumbents
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…
Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of Covid-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development
Recovery agenda for sustainable development post Covid-19 at the country level: Developing a fuzzy action priority surface
As a response to the urgent call for recovery actions against the COVID-19 crisis, this research aims to identify action priority areas post COVID-19 toward achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development launched by the United Nations (UN). This paper applies a mixed-method approach to map the post-COVID-19 SDGs targets on a fuzzy action priority surface at the country level in…
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
Resilience, Skill Endowment, and Diversity: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
This article investigates the role of technological, industrial, and human capital composition in shaping short-term regional resilience in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008. Using data on 295 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas over the period 2008–14, we find that the most resilient regions feature a very diversified industrial structure. At the same time, an excess of technological diversity thwarts the ability to absorb external shocks. L…
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation
Knowledge spillovers have been identified as a factor affecting the unequal distribution of innovation in space. In this paper we aim to understand how territorial factors shape the novelty degree of innovations. Thus, we perform an empirical analysis that relates territorial factors to innovative performance at the firm level. Our results show that local knowledge spillovers from research and development expenditures are positively associated wi…
Green technological diversification and regional recombinant capabilities: The role of technological novelty and academic inventors
We study the entry of regions in new green technological specializations, specifically investigating the role of recombinant novelty and academic inventors and the interplay between the two. We conduct an empirical analysis on a panel of Italian NUTS-3 regions observed from 1999 to 2009. The results show that both recombinant novelty and the presence of academic inventors are positively associated with new entries in green technological specializ…
The contribution of academic inventors to regional technological diversification: The Italian evidence
This article investigates the interplay between scientific and technological capabilities in regional technological diversification dynamics by looking at the contributions of academic inventors. Combining the evolutionary economic approach and the theories on regional innovation capabilities on the one hand, and the distinctive features of academic inventors and university–industry patenting on the other, we hypothesize that the participation of…
Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: Do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter
This paper investigates the relationship between local knowledge bases and recombinant dynamics in circular economy (CE) technologies. We focus on the role of accumulated green and digital complementary capabilities and posit that they are positively associated to the regional ability to absorb and integrate new technological opportunities in CE-based recombinations. The empirical analysis, conducted on a dataset of European NUTS2 regions over th…
Economics (22 works) · Economic geography (20 works) · Business (16 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Industrial organization (10 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (9 works) · Regional science (8 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (7 works)