Giovanni Dosi

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, via Carducci 40, 56127 Pisa, Italy

Email: gdosi@sssup.it

Web site: http://link.sssup.it/LEM/

Biographic notes:

August 25, 1953 in Fiorenzuola d’Arda (Piacenza), Italy.

Degrees:

February 1976: “Laurea”, Faculty of Philosophy (110/110 cum laude)

July 1983: D. Phil., Economics, University of Sussex

Actual position:

October 1998 

to the present: Professor of  Applied Economics, Sant’Anna School of      Advanced Studies, Pisa.

Resume:

- June 1971: US High School Diploma, Buffalo, N.Y.

- July  1971: Italian  High School Diploma (“Maturità  Scientifica”),

Liceo Scientifico, Fiorenzuola (Italy).

- 1976: “Laurea”, Faculty of Philosophy (110/110 cum laude)

- 1977-78: “Specialization” at ISTAO, Ancona, Italy.

- 1983: D. Phil., Economics, University of Sussex

- 1980-83 Research fellow, first at SERC, University of Sussex, (80-81) and, then, at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex.

- 1983:Visiting Professor, Instituto de Economia Industrial, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

- 1984-1987: Research Fellow, DAEST, Istituto Universitario di Architettura e Urbanistica, Venice, Italy and Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex.

- 1986: Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Political Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington.

- 1986: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University.

- 1986: Transamerican Visiting Professor, Haas Business School,U.C. Berkeley.

- 1987- 1998: Professor of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

- 1992 – 1993: Visiting Scholar, Center for Research in Management, Graduate Business School, University of California, Berkeley.

-1992- 1998: Director, International Research Project on "Technological and Economic Dynamics" at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

- from 1998 : Professor of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.

- from 1992: Editor for Continental Europe of Industrial and Corporate Change.

Recent Publications (last three years)

-        “Opportunities, incentives and the collective patterns of technical change”, Economic Journal, 1997.

-        (with B. Coriat), "Learning How to Govern and Learning How to Solve Problems. On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines", in A. Chandler, P. Hagström and Ö. Sölvell (eds.), The Dynamic Firm, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.

-       (with R. Nelson), “Evolutionary Theories”, in R. Arena and C. Longhi (ed.), Markets and Organizations, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

-       (with G. Fagiolo), “Exploring the Unknown. On Entrepreneurship, Coordination and Innovation - Driven Growth”, in J. Lesourne and A. Orlean (eds.), Advances in Self-Organization  and Evolutionaty Economics , Paris, Economica, 1998.

-       (with D.J. Teece), “Organizational competences and the Boundaries of the firms”, in R. Arena and C. Longhi (ed.), Markets and Organizations, Berlin/Heidelberg/ New York, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

-       (with B. Coriat), “The Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Change. An Appraisal of the “Evolutionary” and the “Regulationist” Research Programme”, in K. Nielsen and B. Johnson (eds), Institutions and Economic Change, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1998.

-        (with D. Teece and J. Chytry) (eds), Technology, Organization and Competitiveness, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1998

-        (with R. Nelson and S. Winter) (eds.), The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, forthcoming.

-       (with S. Winter and Y. Kaniovski), “Modeling Industrial Dynamics with Innovative Entrants”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2000.

-       (with A. Bassanini), “When and How Chance and Human Will Can Twist the Arm of Clio”, forthcoming in R. Garud et al. (eds.), Path Creation and Path Dependencies, Nahwah, N. Y., Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2000.

-       (with A. Bassanini), “Heterogenous Agents, Complementarities and Diffusion: Do Increasing Returns Imply Convergence to International Technological Monopolies?”, forthcoming in D. Delli Gatti, M. Gallegati and A. Kirman (eds.), Market Structure, Aggregation and Heterogeneity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

-       (with G. Fagiolo, R. Aversi, M. Meacci and C. Olivetti), “Cognitive Processes, Social Adaptation and Innovation in Consumption Patterns: from Stylized Facts to Demand Theory”, in S. C. Dow, P. E. Earl (eds.), Economic Organizations and Economic Knowledge. Essay in Honour of Brian Loasby, Vol.1, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1999.

-       (with R. Aversi, G. Fagiolo, M. Meacci and C. Olivetti) “Demand Dynamics with socially evolving preferences”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 1999.

-        “Some Notes on National Systems of Innovation and Production, and their Implications for Economic Analysis”, in Archibugi D., J. Howells and J. Michie (eds.), Innovation Policy in a Global Economy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 35-48

-        (with L. Marengo, A. Bassanini and M. Valente), “Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning. The Case of Economic Routines”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1999.

-       Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics. Selected Essays, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2000.