About us

Analysis and modeling of innovation networks and clusters policies is the web collection of research projects realized by research teams, coordinate by Margherita Russo, Federica Rossi and Annalisa Caloffi,  working since 2003 on regional innovation policy and local development (see publications)
With backgrounds in industrial economics, innovation theory and complex system analysis, the research teams work on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of innovation policy programmes, drawing policy recommendations to design more efficient policy measures.
Collaborations with international research teams on innovation and evaluation issues (EU projects FET-sponsored ISCOM-Innovation Society as a Complex System, Insite, MD-Emergence by Design) have supported the theroretical and methodological development of our approach.
Support from Tuscany Region, Italy [on the projects Prai-ITT, Vinci, ELT_reti, poli.in] has allowed us to work on a rich empirical dataset to address some challenging questions.
Further developments of our analysis are developed with research collaborations in new related projects.

Research team

Annalisa Caloffi
Dipartimento di Scienze Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa, Università di Firenze, and CAPP , Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
annalisa.caloffi@unifi.it

Federica Rossi
School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck College, University of London, and CAPP, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
f.rossi@bbk.ac.uk

Margherita Russo
Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi and CAPP, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, margherita.russo@unimore.it

Ana Colovic, NEOMA Business School, Reims, France, ana.colovic@neoma-bs.fr

Eva M. de la Torre Garcia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, eva.delatorre.garcia@gmail.com

Domenico De Stefano, University of Trieste, Italy

Matteo Di Cristofaro, PhD in Linguistics, expert of web content analysis

Valentina Fiordelmondo, valentina.fiordelmondo@unimore.it

Stefano Ghinoi, PhD in Statistics,  stefano.ghinoi@unimore.it

Antonio Kaulard, eco&eco, antonio.kaulard@unimore.it

Pasquale Pavone, PhD in Statistics, expert of text analysis (andTaltac2), CAPP-DEMB Unimore, Italy, pasquale.pavone@unimore.it

Francesco Pagliacci, PhD in Economics, CAPP-DEMB Unimore, Italy, francesco.pagliacci@unimore.it

Elena Pirani, Dipartimento di Statistica “G. Parenti”, Università di Firenze, Italy, pirani@ds.unifi.it

Riccardo Righi, PhD in Statistics, CAPP-DEMB Unimore, Italy, riccardo.righi@unimore.it

Simone Righi, PhD in Economics,CAPP-DEMB Unimore, Italy, simone.righi@unimore.it

Marti Sagarra Garcia, Universitat de Girona, Spain, marti.sagarra@uab.ca

Roberto Serra, Dipartimento di Fisica, Informatica, Matematica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Francesco Silvestri, eco&eco,  francesco.silvestri@unimore.it

Marco Villani, Dipartimento di Fisica, Informatica, Matematica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Susanna Zaccarin, Dipartimento di Statistica, University of Trieste, Italy