Gianluca Biggi

Background

Gianluca Biggi holds a PhD in Management from the University of Pisa. He is currently employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Science and Technology Studies of the University College London (UCL) from January 2020 to September 2020.

Research interests

His research focuses on the nature and dynamics of chemical innovation. Grounded in the broader area of innovation studies, his research explores the extent and modalities under which firms react to regulations in their corporate and innovative strategies.

He uses patent data as measures of innovation and knowledge flows. During his PhD, he contributed to the development of a novel methodology combining the extraction of the chemical content from patents with computational chemistry techniques to understand the nature of chemical inventions.

He was nominated for the Aalto Business School ‘That’s interesting!’ Award during the 2020 Academy of International Business (AIB) Annual Meeting. He has been awarded the 2019 ONE (Organization and the Natural Environment) Best Reviewer at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM). In 2022 his doctoral dissertation has been awarded for the Best Doctoral Dissertation using Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) by AREA Science Park (Prize in memory of Bernardo Nobile).