Shocks, public policies and technological progress. Four essays on the drivers of innovation

The thesis, entitled “Shocks, Public Policies, and Technological Progress: Four Essays on the Drivers of Innovation” adopts a multi-level perspective: it analyzes how shocks and crises reshape research priorities, how place-based investments and cohesion funds promote the digitization of Italian municipalities, and how innovation subsidies guide the innovative trajectories of companies, tracked through new web-based metrics built via web scraping and textual analysis.

La tesi, intitolata “Shocks, Public Policies, and Technological Progress: Four Essays on the Drivers of Innovation”, adotta una prospettiva multilivello: analizza come shock e crisi ridisegnino le priorità di ricerca, come gli investimenti place-based e i fondi di coesione favoriscano la digitalizzazione dei comuni italiani, e come i sussidi all’innovazione orientino le traiettorie innovative delle imprese, tracciate attraverso nuove metriche web-based costruite via web scraping e analisi testuale.