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Monica Plechero
Monica Plechero is a Ph.D. candidate at CIRCLE and currently visiting the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policy at Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. Her main research topic concerns global innovation networks and different forms of globalization of innovation in developing countries. She is particularly interested in studying firms located in emerging Regional Innovation Systems. Monica’s recent research is related on how Chinese and Indian firms are upgrading their innovation capabilities to go internationally, and how regional and global linkages are effecting firms’ capacity to compete in the global market.
In these last years she has been involved in several projects on globalization of innovation with partners in Europe, China, India, South Africa and Brazil.
Before arriving at CIRCLE she has worked for many years as independent researcher collaborating with different Italian entrepreneurial associations and research organizations. She is an expert in industrial districts and regional innovation systems. She has published a series of Italian studies focused on how SMEs and local clusters face innovation and globalization, with a particular emphasis on technological change, collective learning and knowledge diffusion. She holds an international Master in European Studies of Society, Science and Technology.
Recent Publications:
Plechero M. and Chaminade C., 2011 From new to the firm to new to the world. Effect of geographical proximity and technological capabilities on the degree of novelty in emerging economies. CIRCLE Electronic Working Paper n° 12.
Plechero M. and Chaminade C., 2010, Different competences, different modes in the globalization of innovation? A comparative study of Pune region and Beijing region. CIRCLE Electronic Working Paper n° 3. (R & R in Research Policy).
Last modified 9 Mar 2012
