Born September 24th, 1961. Degree in Economics from the Università di Genova. MA in Economics from New York University. PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
Professor of Corporate Management and Dean of the PhD School of Bocconi University. He is Editor of the European Management Review and serves on the Editorial Board of Academy of Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. He published on several international journals. Markets for Technology (2001, MIT Press, with A. Arora and A. Fosfuri) is his best known book. His website is http://www.alfonsogambardella.it/
Economics and management of technology. Strategic Management. Applied Industrial Economics.
Journals (past 3 years and main publications)
- "Localized Knowledge Spillovers and Skill-Biased Performance" (with M.Giarratana), Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2010
- "Ideas for Rent: An Overview of Markets for Technology" (with A.Arora), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010
- "Business-Model Innovation, General Purpose Technologies, Specialization and Industry Change" (with Anita McGahan), Long Range Planning, 2010
- "How and When Should Companies Retain their Human Capital? Contracts, Incentives, and Human Resource Implications" (with M.Giarratana, C.Panico), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010
- "Organizational Attributes and the Distribution of Rewards in a Region: Managerial Firms vs Knowledge Clusters" (with M. Giarratana), Organization Science, 2010
- "A Breadth of Fresh Air: Firm Type, Scale and Selection Effects in Drug Development" (with A. Arora, L. Magazzini, F. Pammolli), Management Science, 2009
- "How Provincial is Your Region? Openness and Regional Performance in Europe" (with M. Mariani and S. Torrisi), Regional Studies, 2009
- "The Value of European Patents" (with F. Harhoff and B. Verspagen), European Management Review, 2008
- "The Market for Patents in Europe" (with P. Giuri and A. Luzzi), Research Policy, 2007
- "Inventors and Invention Processes in Europe. Results from the PatVal-EU Survey" (with P. Giuri et al.), Research Policy, 2007
- "Proprietory vs Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products" (with B. Hall), Research Policy, 2006
- "Old Economy Inputs for New Economy Outputs: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valles" (with T. Bresnahan and A. Saxenian), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2001
- "Specialised Technology Suppliers, International Spillovers and Investments: Evidence from the Chemical Industry" (with A. Arora and A. Fosfuri), Journal of Development Economics, 2001
- "Domestic Markets and International Competitiveness: Generic and Product Specific Competencies in the Engineering Sector" (with A. Arora), Strategic Management Journal, 1997
- "Evaluating Technological Information and Utilizing It" (with A. Arora), Journal of Economic Behavior and Orgnization, 1994
- "The Changing Technology of Technical Change: General and Abstract Knowledge and the Division of Innovative Labour" (with A. Arora), Research Policy, 1994
- "Competitive Advantages from In-house Basic Research", Research Policy, 1992
- "Complementarity and External Linkages: The Strategies of the Large Firms in Biotechnology", Journal of Industrial Economics, 1990
Books (main)
- Innovazione e Sviluppo: Miti da Sfatare, Realtà da Costruire, Egea, 2009
- From Underdog to Tigers: The Rise of the Software Industry in Some Emerging Economies (eds., with A. Arora), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
- Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond (eds., with T. Bresnahan), Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy, (with A. Arora and A. Fosfuri), Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001
- Science and Innovation: The US Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1980s, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995
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