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Roberto Fontana

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First Name: Roberto
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Last Name: Fontana
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RePEc Short-ID: pfo18

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Postal Address: Department of Economics, University of Pavia, Via San Felice 5, Pavia, Italy & CESPRI - Università Bocconi, Via Sarfatti 25, 20136, Milan, Italy
Phone: +39 0258363037

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Working papers

  1. Gustavo Crespi & Pablo D’Este & Roberto Fontana & Aldo Geuna, 2009. "The impact of academic patenting on university research and its transfer," ICER Working Papers 01-2009, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

  2. Roberto Fontana & Geuna Aldo, 2009. "The nature of collaborative patenting activities," Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis" LEI & BRICK - Laboratorio di economia dell'innovazione "Franco Momigliano", Bureau of Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge, Collegio Carlo 200910, University of Turin. [Downloadable!]

  3. Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas & Tommy Clausen & Roberto Fontana & Bart Verspagen, 2008. "Formal and informal external linkages and firms' innovative strategies: A cross-country comparison," Working Papers on Innovation Studies 20081113, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Roberto Fontana & Marco Guerzoni & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2008. "Habakkuk revisited: A history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"," Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics 2008-064, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek. [Downloadable!]

  5. Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari & Bart Verspagen, 2008. "Mapping Technological Trajectories as Patent Citation Networks. An application to Data Communication Standards," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 166, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Roberto Fontana & Lionel Nesta, 2007. "Entry, Innovation and Exit. Evidence from the LAN switch Industry," Documents de Travail de l'OFCE 2007-02, Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE). [Downloadable!]

  7. Roberto Fontana & Marco Guerzoni, 2007. "Incentives and uncertainty: an empirical analysis of the impact of demand on innovation," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 163, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Roberto Fontana & Lionel Nesta, 2007. "Product Innovation and Survival in a High-Tech Industry," CESPRI Working Papers 208, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Dec 2007. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Carolina Castaldi & Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2006. "'Chariots of Fire': The Evolution of Tank Technology, 1915-1945," LEM Papers Series 2006/03, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. [Downloadable!]
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  10. Nicoletta Corrocher & Roberto Fontana, 2006. "Expectations, Network Effects and Timing of Technology Adoption: Some Empirical Evidence from a Sample of SMEs in Italy," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 150, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Stefano Brusoni & Roberto Fontana, 2005. "Modularity as an Entry Strategy: The invasion of new niches in the LAN equipment industry," CESPRI Working Papers 171, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Jul 2005. [Downloadable!]

  12. Roberto FONTANA & Aldo GEUNA & Mireille MATT, 2005. "Factors Affecting University–Industry R&D Collaboration : The importance of screening and signalling," Working Papers of BETA 2005-07, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, ULP, Strasbourg. [Downloadable!]

  13. Roberto Fontana & Lionel Nesta, 2004. "Product entry in a fast growing industry: the LAN switch market," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 126, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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  14. Roberto Fontana, 2003. "Rapid Technical Change and the Speed of Lock-in: Standard Battles in the Local Area Network Industry in the 1990s," CESPRI Working Papers 146, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Jul 2003. [Downloadable!]

  15. Roberto Fontana & Aldo Geuna & Mireille Matt, 2003. "Firm Size and Openness: the Driving Forces of University-Industry Collaboration," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 103, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]

  16. Roberto Fontana, 2003. "Technological disequilibrium: measuring technical change in fast growing industries: the case of local area network equipement," CESPRI Working Papers 145, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Jul 2003. [Downloadable!]

  17. Roberto Fontana, 2000. "Determinants of Innovation and Competition of Component System Technologies in the Local Area Network Industry," CESPRI Working Papers 117, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Sep 2000. [Downloadable!]

  18. Roberto Fontana, 1999. "Twinning Networks: Co-Evolution and Competition of System Component Technologies in the Local Area Network Industry," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 31, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]

Articles

  1. Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari & Pier Saviotti, 2009. "Introduction to the Journal of Evolutionary Economics special issue: the product characteristics approach to innovation studies," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 463-469, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  2. Carolina Castaldi & Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2009. "‘Chariots of fire’: the evolution of tank technology, 1915–1945," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 545-566, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari & Bart Verspagen, 2009. "Mapping technological trajectories as patent citation networks. An application to data communication standards," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 18(4), pages 311-336. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Corrocher, Nicoletta & Fontana, Roberto, 2008. "Objectives, obstacles and drivers of ICT adoption: What do IT managers perceive?," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 229-242, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  5. Nicoletta Corrocher & Roberto Fontana, 2008. "Expectations, network effects and timing of technology adoption: some empirical evidence from a sample of SMEs in Italy," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 31(4), pages 425-441, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Roberto Fontana, 2008. "Competing technologies and market dominance: standard "battles" in the Local Area Networking industry," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 17(6), pages 1205-1238, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  7. Roberto Fontana & Marco Guerzoni, 2008. "Incentives and uncertainty: an empirical analysis of the impact of demand on innovation," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 32(6), pages 927-946, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Fontana, Roberto & Geuna, Aldo & Matt, Mireille, 2006. "Factors affecting university-industry R&D projects: The importance of searching, screening and signalling," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(2), pages 309-323, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  9. Roberto Fontana & Lionel Nesta, 2006. "Product entry in a fast growing industry: the LAN switch market," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 45-64, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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NEP Fields

20 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (7) 2003-10-20 2003-10-20 2005-03-20 2006-05-27 2007-02-17 2008-01-26 2008-02-02 Author is listed
  2. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2008-11-25
  3. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2009-05-23
  4. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (5) 2005-03-20 2005-06-05 2007-02-17 2008-01-26 2008-02-02 Author is listed
  5. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (3) 2003-10-20 2006-01-24 2008-08-31
  6. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (2) 2006-05-27 2007-02-17
  7. NEP-INO: Innovation (16) 2003-10-20 2003-10-20 2005-06-05 2006-01-24 2006-02-05 2006-04-29 2006-05-27 2007-02-17 2007-08-08 2007-12-08 2008-01-26 2008-02-02 2008-08-31 2008-11-25 2009-05-23 2009-07-11 Author is listed
  8. NEP-IPR: Intellectual Property Rights (6) 2007-08-08 2008-02-02 2008-03-01 2008-11-25 2009-05-23 2009-07-11 Author is listed
  9. NEP-KNM: Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy (3) 2007-08-08 2008-11-25 2008-11-25
  10. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (5) 2007-02-17 2007-12-08 2008-01-26 2008-02-02 2008-11-25 Author is listed
  11. NEP-NET: Network Economics (4) 2001-02-21 2005-03-20 2006-04-29 2008-03-01
  12. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2005-06-05
  13. NEP-PPM: Project, Program & Portfolio Management (2) 2007-08-08 2009-07-11
  14. NEP-SOC: Social Norms & Social Capital (1) 2006-04-29
  15. NEP-TID: Technology & Industrial Dynamics (8) 2001-02-21 2003-10-20 2003-10-20 2005-03-20 2007-02-17 2007-08-08 2008-01-26 2008-02-02 Author is listed
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