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Aldo Geuna is Full Professor at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino and Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto. He has published several books and articles in refereed journals in the area of economics of science, economics of innovation and science and technology policy. He is member of the Editorial Board of Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Technology Transfer and Research Policy. He has been a member of various scientific committees, expert groups and panels in Italy, Sweden, the UK as well as for the OECD, the National Academies (US) and the EU. He has been an invited speaker in various European countries, the US, Canada, China and Korea. He taught as invited visiting professor in Chile, France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam.

Alessandra Colombelli is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches Strategy and Organisation and Business Management. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Technology and an MSc in Management Engineering from the University of Bergamo. She is member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (EIC) at the Politecnico di Torino, Research Associate at the CNRS-GREDEG-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto. She serves as Technical Assessors at the I3P (the incubator of Politecnico di Torino). She was formerly Marie Curie Fellow at the Manchester Business School, research associate at the University of Cagliari, post-doc fellow at the University Lumière Lyon2 and the University of Turin. She has been involved in several national and international research projects and as a consultant for public and private institutions. Her publications cover several topics in the fields of entrepreneurship, economics of innovation, and regional economics. Her research was published in highly ranked international journals like Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Regional Studies, and International Journal of Production Economics. She has been awarded the 2005 Giorgio Rota Best Paper and the 2012 Emerald Award for Excellence.

Born: February 8, 1948, Asti, Italy.

Education: Laurea (Economics, University of Turin, Italy).

Past position: Associate Professor in Industrial Economics (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Turin, Italy)

Research interests:

• Small and medium firms;
• Automotive industry;
• Electric vehicles;
• Relationships between suppliers and car makers;
• Outsourcing and offshoring.

Marco Guerzoni is a co-founder of Despina, the Big Data Lab at the Department of Economics and Statistics, where he is associate professor of applied economics. He teaches Data Science for Business Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Economics of Innovation and Technology policy. His research area covers management and economics of innovation, technology policy, advanced data science. He has been recently working on the methodological implications of big-data and machine learning for business and in social science with a focus on the issues of model selection, inference, and hypotheses mining. He has published in international journal such as for instance Research Policy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He coordinates the specialization Complexity and Innovation of the doctoral program. He is also member of BRICS-Collegio Carlo Alberto and ICRIOS-Università Bocconi.

Born 1952, Stefano Musso is associate professor (with professional qualification as full professor). He teaches Contemporary History, Labour and Business History at the University of Turin.

• 1975 BA+MA in Philosophy , University of Turin
• 1977-78 Fellowship Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan
• 1979 Master in History and Geography – University of Turin
• 2008-2012, Director of ISMEL (Institute for the History of Labour and Business), Turin.
• 2012- 2017, President of SISLAV (Italian Society for the History of Labour).

Research interests: Social History, Urban History, Labour movements and Trade Unions, Industrial Relations, Business History, Education and Vocational Training.

Main publications:

• Gli operai di Torino 1900-1920, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980.
• La gestione della forza lavoro sotto il fascismo, Milano, Angeli, 1987.
• Tra fabbrica e società. Mondi operai nell’Italia del Novecento, (ed.), “Annali” Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, a. XXXIII, 1997, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1999.
• Le regole e l’elusione. Il governo del mercato del lavoro nell’industrializzazione italiana (1888-2003), Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2004.
• La partecipazione nell’impresa responsabile. Storia del Consiglio di gestione Olivetti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
• Storia del lavoro in Italia dall’Unità a oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
• Storia del lavoro in Italia. Il Novecento. 1896-1945. Il lavoro nella società industriale. 1945-2000 La ricostruzione, il miracolo economico, la globalizzazione, (ed.), Roma, Castelvecchi di Lit Edizioni, 2015.

Paolo Neirotti is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, in the Department of Management and Production Engineering.
His research interests include the topic of the work transformation ignited by digital technologies. With reference on the resurgence of the manufacturing industry in the Western world, Paolo’s interest mainly deals with how lean and high-performance work systems can find new and more sustainable ways of application through the use of new digital technologies on the shop floor like Internet of Things, Big Data and Collaborative Robotics.
His research has been published on Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Human Resource Management, New Technology, Work and Employment, and Information & Management.

Yale PhD, teach in a liberal arts college, do research on the auto industry and the Chinese and Japanese economies. Serve as a judge for the Automotive News PACE Award, which recognizes innovation in the supply chain. On the steering committee of GERPISA, a consortium of auto industry researchers.