Federica Rossi

[ federica.rossi@unimore.it ]

Assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Torino

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Federica Rossi holds a Post-Doctoral researcher grant at the University of Torino. She is also Associate Lecturer in Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Innovation Management Research of Birkbeck College, University of London. She holds a PhD in Economics of Complexity and Creativity from the University of Torino, a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Torino and a Bachelor Degree in Political Economy from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She has worked for several years as a research assistant on numerous interdisciplinary research projects, including the EU-funded projects “Understanding the Relationship between Knowledge and Competitiveness in the Enlarging EU” (U-KNOW), “The Information Society as a Complex System” (ISCOM) and “Complexity in Education and Training” (CETRA), as well as projects funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR), the Italian Department for Economic Development and Tuscany’s Regional Administration. Her areas of expertise are industrial economics and the economics of science and innovation. She has written on innovation networks, innovation theory, university-industry knowledge transfer, and the economics and policy of higher education. Her PhD dissertation focused on the analysis of university-industry relationships and the effects of the introduction of competitive measures in higher education, using Italian data.

Publications:

• F. Rossi (2010), “Massification, competition and organizational diversity in higher education: some evidence from Italy” (forthcoming in Studies in Higher Education).
• F. Rossi, M. Russo, S. Sardo, J. Whitford, “Innovative interventions in support of innovation networks. A complex system perspective to public innovation policy and private technology brokering” acceptetd for publication in the volume of the Dublin Conference "Innovation in Complex Social Systems", edited by Petra Ahrweiler, Routledge, London.
• F. Rossi (2009), “Universities’ access to research funds: do institutional features and strategies matter?” Tertiary Education and Management, 15 (2), 113–135.
• F. Rossi (2009), “Increased competition and diversity in higher education: an empirical analysis of the Italian university system”, Higher Education Policy, 22 (3), 1-25.
• M. Russo and F. Rossi (2009), “Cooperation partnerships and innovation. A complex systems perspective to the design, management and evaluation of a EU regional innovation policy programme”, Evaluation, 15(1), 75-100.
• M. Russo and F. Rossi (2006), “Stimolare l’innovazione con strumenti innovativi: reti di partenariato e sviluppo locale nel PRAI-ITT 2002-031”, Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione, n.32, 2006.
• C. Antonelli, P. Patrucco and F. Rossi (2009), “The economics of knowledge interactions and the changing role of universities”, in Gallouj, F. (ed.) Handbook of the economics of services, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• F. Rossi, P. Bertossi, P. Gurisatti and L. Sovieni (2009), “Incorporating a new technology into agent-artifact space: case studies from Europe”, in D.A. Lane, G. West, S. van der Leeuw and D. Pumain (eds.), Complexity perspectives on Innovation and Social Change. Dordrecht: Springer Methodos Series.
• M. Russo and F. Rossi (2009), “Innovation policy: levels and levers”, in D.A. Lane, G. West, S. van der Leeuw and D. Pumain (eds.) Complexity perspectives on Innovation and Social Change. Dordrecht: Springer Methodos Series.
• F. Rossi (2007), “From linear to complex models of innovation in economics”, in M. Villani (ed.) Educating Managers in Complexity, Roma: Aracne.

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