Publications by Michele Pezzoni

Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Public funding agencies aim to fund novel breakthrough research to promote the radical scientific discoveries of tomorrow. Identifying the profiles of scientists being financed to pursue their research is therefore crucial. This paper shows that the fundin ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

The important thing is not to win, it is to take part: What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

“The important thing is not to win, it is to take part,” this famous saying by Pierre de Coubertin asserts that the value athletes draw from Olympic games lies in their participation in the event and not in the gold they collect during it. We find similar ...

2019

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector

Dominique Foray, Monica Coffano, Michele Pezzoni

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector. Regional Studies. This paper contributes an empirical analysis to the discussion of the impact of inventors' collaboration networks on regional innovation. M ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

At the Origins of Learning: Absorbing Knowledge Flows from within the Team

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Empirical studies document a positive effect of collaboration on team productivity. However, little has been done to assess how knowledge flows among team members. Our study addresses this issue by exploring unique rich data on a Swiss funding program prom ...

Elsevier2017

Innovation and Market Structure in Pharmaceuticals: An Econometric Analysis on Simulated Data

Michele Pezzoni

The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it presents the results of a "history-friendly" simulation model of evolution of the pharmaceutical industry. Second, it aims at contributing to a more general methodological discussion about agent-based mo ...

Lucius Lucius Verlag Mbh2014

How to kill inventors: testing the MassacratorA (c) algorithm for inventor disambiguation

Michele Pezzoni, Francesco Lissoni

Inventor disambiguation is an increasingly important issue for users of patent data. We propose and test a number of refinements to the original Massacrator algorithm, originally proposed by Lissoni et al. (The keins database on academic inventors: methodo ...

Springer2014