STEFANO IANDOLO | Projects

This project is based on the idea that the recent increase in robot adoption, which includes both automation and digitalisation, has been identified as one of the greatest shock in recent years affecting employment levels, productivity, and innovation performance in all industrialised countries at the firm, industry and country levels. The literature on the effects of robot adoption is very recent

This project moves from the idea that firms which integrate in their production process more intensively and extensively R&D intensive supplies from service sectors - more specifically from knowledge intensive ones (KIBS) - exhibit greater inventive efforts. The aim is to investigate on (eventual) knowledge externalities arising from the relationships of the Italian manufacturing firms located dow