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Annaflavia Bianchi
Economist, expert in Industrial economics, economics of innovation and network technologies in the European context, she focused her research activity starting from the early Eighties on innovation, technological progress, the provision and adoption of information and communications technologies, knowledge economics, technology foresight, complementarities between different innovation strategies and economic performance, economic growth and social cohesion, and implications for industrial, regional, innovation policy.
Her professional experience was built at Nomisma, Bologna (where she was involved in various international and national research co-operations out of which the OECD/BRIE Telecommunications User Group Project, EBIP; E-commerce Business Impact Project with OECD and the EU) ERVET, ASTER, CURDS (Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies) of the University of Newcastle (UK), Telecom Italia and its research and strategy centre Future Centre in Venice, Italy, IPTS (Institute for prospective technological studies) EC DG Research Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain.
She is currently involved in a three year research project on E-services in Europe, supported by the European Investment Bank and coordinated by the University of Urbino, Italy.
She has a two year contract to coordinate a working group of Italian regional government managers on Regional technology foresight, part of a project for Supporting Regions in research and innovation policy run by the Italian Agency for innovation with the Ministry for economic development and cohesion.
She is scientific coordinator of the Faber Foundation, with which she runs technology foresight sectoral exercises and micro firm manager training in innovation and organisation; scientific responsible for the Innovation and technology transfer centre Centuria Agenzia Innovazione Romagna acting in the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy; and member of the University of Ferrara research team on innovation strategies in manufacturing firms and regional innovation policy assessment.
She is lecturing on Economics of innovation at the University of Ferrara, and member of the Research policy evaluation Committee for the Autonomous Province of Trento.
The main research lines can be grouped in three major analysis directions:
- development factors at the micro- and macro-economic level, with interest in sectoral dynamics, organisational-managerial aspects, labour economics, human resource investment;
- characteristics of the local economies, relationships between firms within industrial districts and in general in local industrial systems, the economic, social, institutional and infrastructure context, the role of technological poles, science parks, service centres for enterprises;
- international integration, technology dynamics, innovation strategies as competitive factor and company and territory positioning in a geo-economic view.
Along these lines, her recent research interests have been: The information and communications technologies (ICT) as one of the pillars of economic development, the characteristics of local industrial systems, technology dynamics, especially ICT and knowledge ones, scenario construction and evolution of ICT applications, namely eGovernment and social inclusion in the knowledge-based economy, synergies between various innovation drivers and their link with economic performance of firms, research policy evaluation.