Emilio Raiteri joins the Chair of Innovation and IP Policy
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Dr. Raiteri earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Turin (Italy) in February 2015. He was a research affiliate at the Bureau of Research on Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (BRICK), Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy) and a visiting doctoral researcher at the Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), University of Bordeaux (France).
His main research interests are the economics of innovation, technology policy, and innovation policy evaluation. His current work seeks to assess the impact of innovative public procurement, which is broadly defined as all the purchasing activities carried out by public agencies that may lead to innovation. This sort of public purchasing is usually opposed to ‘regular’ public procurement, which happens when the state buys off-the-shelf products for which no additional research activity is required. Even though the main objective of public purchasing is not to stimulate private innovation activities, during the last decade economists and policy makers have increasingly considered innovative public procurement as an effective technology policy tool. Despite the growing interest in the topic, empirical evidence about the effects of innovative public procurement as a technology policy is still limited. Emilio's work tries to fill this gap in the technology policy literature by providing fresh empirical evidence on the impact of procurement on firms’ innovative behavior and by analyzing the nature of technological change induced by public procurement.