Gianluca Biggi

Background

Gianluca Biggi is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He got a PhD in Management from the University of Pisa in 2021. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin in 2023, the Department of Science and Technology Studies of the University College London (UCL) in 2020 and Visiting Researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management in June 2018.

Research interests

His research focuses on the management of innovation and the strategic implications of emerging technologies. He investigates how technological change unfolds across industries, with a particular interest in the interplay between green and digital technologies. During his PhD, he developed a novel methodology that integrates chemical information extracted from patents with computational chemistry tools, enabling a deeper understanding of the nature and evolution of chemical inventions. His current work explores how firms navigate the twin transition by adopting green and digital technologies, and how these investments affect their economic and environmental performance. To this end, he combines patent analysis, firm-level surveys, and econometric methods to trace technology adoption patterns and assess strategic outcomes.

He has received the following recognitions:

Industry and Innovation: Inclusion of the paper “The Noxious Consequences of innovation: What do we know? ”in the collection of 30 impactful research articles published in the journal across its different Editorships to date (April 2023)
DRUID Conference 2023: Nomination for the Best Paper Award from Industry and Innovation (January 2023)
AREA Science Park: National Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation using Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) (January 2022)
Academy of Management (AOM): Best Reviewer for the 80th Annual Meeting of the AOM (August 2020)
Academy of International Business (AIB): Nomination for the AIB – Aalto “That’s Interesting Award!” (May 2020)

Role

Gianluca is part of the Green and Dark Innovation focus area.