Giovanni Dosi

Giovanni Dosi
Born (1953-08-25) 25 August 1953
NationalityItalian
Academic background
Alma materSPRU, University of Sussex
InfluencesThomas Kuhn, Herbert A. Simon, Christopher Freeman, Sidney Winter, Richard Nelson, Keith Pavitt
Academic work
DisciplineInnovation Economics, Industrial Organization, Theory of the Firm
School or traditionEvolutionary economics
Notable ideasTechnological paradigm
Website

Giovanni Dosi (born 25 August 1953) is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He is the Co-Director of the task forces “Industrial Policy” and “Intellectual Property” at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Dosi is Continental European Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. Included in ISI Highly Cited Researchers.

His major research areas, where he is the author and editor of several works, include economics of innovation and technological change, industrial organization and industrial dynamics, theory of the firm and corporate governance, evolutionary theory, economic growth and development.

A selection of his works has been published in two volumes: Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics. Selected Essays, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2000; and Economic Organization, Industrial Dynamics and Development: Selected Essays, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2012.