Claudio Fassio

Personal details
Citizenship: Italian
Born: May 1982
One daughter, one son.

Current positions
January 2022 – current: Ricercatore tipo B (SECS-P01) at Department of Political Science, University of Pisa, Italy.
February 2015 – current: Research associate at CIRCLE, University of Lund, Sweden.


Past Positions:
October 2019 - December 2021: Associate professor at Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden. January 2018 – September 2019: Researcher at Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Sweden.
February 2015 – December 2017: Researcher at CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy), University of Lund, Sweden.
September 2013 – January 2015: Post-Doc Fellow at School of European Political Economy (SEP), Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy.
January 2012 – December 2013: Post-Doc Fellow at BRICK (Bureau of Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge), Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy.

Research Interests
Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, Internationalization and Innovation, Skilled Mobility and Innovation, University-industry links.


Education
January 2008 – May 2011: Ph.D. in Economics and Complexity, University of Torino
October 2009 – March 2010: Visiting Ph.D. fellow at UNU-Merit Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Awards
2019 – winner of the Exeter Prize For The Best Paper In Knowledge Management And Innovation at the 2019 EIBA (European International Business Association) conference in Leeds. Paper: “International Knowledge Flows Between Industrial Inventors and Universities: The Role of Multinational Companies”.

Leadership of projects

2020 – Winner of a two-years research grant (June 2020- June 2021) from the Crafoord Foundation. Title of the project: “Global search for science: How do multinational companies establish collaborations with international universities?” (project nr. 20200974). Amount granted: 975,000 SEK (95,000 €). Role: principal investigator.

2017 – 2021 Coordinator of the research project “Sweden position in Global Value Chains” (project number: 2017-05382), funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency VINNOVA. Three years duration (December 2017- December 2020) Amount granted: 16,500.000 SEK (1,6 million €). Role: project coordinator.

2017 – Winner of a two-years research grant (January 2018- December 2019) from the Lundberg Stiftelse. Title of the project: “Leaving the Multinational: what is the impact of the mobility of human capital from multinational enterprises to entrepreneurship and small and medium businesses in Sweden?” (project number: 702871). Amount granted: 1,700.000 SEK (170,000 €). Role: principal investigator.

2016 – Winner of a two-years research grant (January 2017- December 2018) from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation – Handelsbanken, Stockholm. Title of the project: “Young talents from abroad. The impact of foreign graduates on the international operations of Swedish firms” (project number.: P20160058:1). Amount granted: 1,000.000 SEK (100,000 €). Role: principal investigator.