Chiara Franzoni's Personal Page

CHIARA FRANZONI (PhD)
is Research Fellow at DISPEA, Politecnico di Torino and BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Current Research Interests
Chiara's expertize is the area of Economics of Science and Economics and Management of Innovation. She has worked extensively on academic patenting and on Intellectual Property regimes in science. Implications of her work are relevant for Research Policy, for the management of public administrations and of academia, and for the commercialization of technology. Current research projects relate to:

• international competition and incentive policies in science
• prejudicial disclosures in international patent law
• determinants of creativity in science and R&D
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) evaluation
• innovation policy impact
• openess of science and its effects on social and economic development
• networks of scientists and academic inventors and their effects on productivity in research
  

She is also involved in the development of advanced scientometric techniques suitable to map the development of science.

Education
Laurea, Business Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, 2000.
PhD, Economics and Management of Innovation, University of Bergamo, Italy, 2005.


Formerly
2005-2006 Visiting Scholar at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2004-2005 Research Associate at CERIS (CNR), National Research Council of Italy, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy.
2003 Visiting Scholar at CRIC, University of Manchester, ESCR Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition, Manchester UK.


Scholarships and prizes Earned
2008 Intel Best Paper Award, Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
2005-2006 Post-doc fellowship for a one-year visiting at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
2004-2005 Young Scholars Fellowship, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Italy.
2001-2004 3 years PhD Scholarship from CERIS, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Turin, Italy.


Research Projects

• GlobSci, Globalization of Science. Impact on national competitiveness and policy implications (2009-2011).
• IAMAT, Economic Impact of Univerisities on the Metropolitan Area, Fondazione Rosselli, (2008-2010).
• TES (Technology Equity Score), IP Finance Institute (2009-2010).

Pubblications

Articles in refereed journals

• FRANZONI C., SCELLATO, G. "Papers in the Drawer. Estimating patent-publication lags in Europe and US". Research Policy, forthcoming.
• FRANZONI C."Do Scientists Get Fundamental Research Ideas by Solving Practical Problems?", to appear on Industrial and Corporate Change, 18:671-699, 2009.
• FRANZONI C., SIMPKINS C.L., LI B., RAM A. "Using Content Analysis to Investigate the Research Paths Chosen by Scientists Over Time", Scientometrics, online 10 June 2009.
• CALDERINI M., FRANZONI C., VEZZULLI A. "The Unequal Benefit of Academic Patenting for Science and Engineering Research", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 56(1):16-30, 2009.
• FRANZONI C., VITALI G. “Innovazione, Performance Economiche e Occupazione. Un’Analisi Panel” , Economia e Politica Industriale, 4:66-92, 2008 (in Italian).
• FRANZONI C. “Opportunity Recognition in Technology Transfer Organizations. Five Case Studies from UK and Italy”, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 3(1):51-67, 2007.
• CALDERINI M., FRANZONI C., VEZZULLI A. "If Star Scientists Do Not Patent. The Effect of Productivity, Basicness and Impact on the Decision to Patent in the Academic World", Research Policy, 36(3):303-319, 2007.

Edited books and book chapters

• FRANZONI C., LISSONI F. “Academic entrepreneurship: critical issues and lessons for Europe” in Varga A. (ed.), “Academic entrepreneurship and regional development”, Edward Elgar, pp.163-190, 2009, ISBN 9781845429317.
• FRANZONI C., ROSSI LAMASTRA C.(Eds.) "Open Knowledge and the Cooperative Approach to the Production of Research and Innovation", Franco Angeli, Milano, 2007, ISBN:978-88-464-9124-4.
• FRANZONI C. “Research instruments and operating tools: how open science contributes to technology” in Franzoni C. and Rossi Lamastra C.(Cit.)
• FORTI E., FRANZONI C., SOBRERO M. "The Effect of Patenting on the Networks and Connections of Academic Scientists", in Sri Krishna C. (ed.), "Academic Patents: Emerging Issues and Challenges", Icfai University Press, pp.117-141, 2007, ISBN 8131413497.
• CALDERINI M., FRANZONI C., Patenting in Public Research: an evidence-based reflection on IPR and the basic-applied tade-off”, in SANTANGELO G.D., (Ed.), The Nature of Technological Change and the Role of Science and Multinationals in Catching-up Processes, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), pp.59-71, 2006, ISBN 1845424824. [book review]

Working Papers

• FRANZONI C., SCELLATO G., STEPHAN P.E., "Changing Incentives to publish and the consequences for submission patterns".
• ANTONELLI C., FRANZONI C., GEUNA A., "Economic and organizational issues to promote the Advancement of Science", forthcoming on Industrial and Corporate Change.
• FORTI E., FRANZONI C., SOBRERO M., "The Effect of Patenting on the Networks and Connections of Academic Scientists", SSRN working paper #959358.
• CALDERINI M., FRANZONI C., SCELLATO G., "The complex economic dynamics of scientific research", invited contribution to the book by ANTONELLI A. "The System Dynamics od Technological Change", Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2010.

Teaching

• Technology, Strategy and Innovation, Graduate Program (M.S.), Year I, Politecnico di Torino, (English language class).
  
• Economia e Management dell'Innovazione, Executive MBA, Luiss Business School, Rome.
• IPRs e Patent Portfolio Management, Scuola di Amministrazione Aziendale (SAA), Executive MBA.