Andrea Roventini

Professor Roventini He has been the principal investigator of the European Commission H2020 project “Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity” (GROWINPRO), a consortium of eleven international academic institutions and three national statistical office that has provided a detailed analysis of the causes of the anaemic European growth performance during the last decades and has developed a set of policy solutions aimed at restoring sustained and inclusive economic growth diven by innovation. He has been the leader and coordinator of the Sant’Anna unit in the project “Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition” (EEIST) funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. The EEIST project has brought together world-leading university and research institutions from UK, Italy, Brazil, China and India to develop complexity-based modelling solutions to support government decision making around green innovation and green transition.

He has participated to European Commission FP7 project “Impacts and Risks from Higher-End Scenarios: Strategies for Innovative Solutions” (IMPRESSION); European Commission H2020 project, “Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society“ (DOLFINS); European Commission H2020 project, “Innovation-Fuelled, Sustainable, Inclusive Economic Growth” (ISIGrowth).

His main research interests include complex system analysis, agent-based computational economics, economic growth, business cycles, innovation and structutral change, climate change and the study of the effects of monetary, fiscal, innovation, industrial and climate-change policies.

His works have been published in PNAS, Nature Climate Change,  Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Research Policy, Journal of Financial Stability, Industrial and Corporate Change, Economic Modeling, Ecological Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Inquiry, Socio-Economic Review, Environmental Modeling and Software, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Regional Studies, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

He is research fellow at OFCE, Sciences Po (France) and at the World Inequality Database. He is editor of Industrial and Corporate Chance – Macro Economics and Development and advisory editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.