Innovation, Complexity and Economic Evolution: From Theory to Policy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

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Pier Paolo Saviotti has been Research Professor in the Grenoble unit of INRA (now INRAE), the National Institute of Agricultural Research of France, and in GREDEG CNRS in Sophia Antipolis. He taught in the Departments of Science and Technology Policy and of Economics of Manchester University (1980-1994) and in Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. He has been Visiting Professor in the University of Jena (2002-2003), in Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) in 2004, in the University of Hohenheim in 2010-2011, in the Technological University of Eindhoven in 2012-2013 Utrecht university (2015-2017). In 2012 he was research fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies of Durham University. Between January 2015 and December 2017, he has been visiting Professor in Innovation Studies, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. He is now Affiliate Professor, Economics Department, St Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, and associate researcher in GREDEG CNRS, Sophia Antipolis. Between July 2008 and July 2012, he has been vice-president of the International Schumpeter Society.

Saviotti is author of several publications about the economics of innovation, of development and the economics of knowledge.