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Alfonso Gambardella

Alfonso Gambardella

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Business and Management
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
63
Citations
24762
World Ranking
435
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
  • Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Alfonso Gambardella is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and specializes in research within the fields of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work predominantly focuses on Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Business and International Management.

The research topics covered by Gambardella include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovation Policy and R&D, Intellectual Property and Patents, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Firm Innovation and Growth.

Some of the frequent co-authors collaborating with Gambardella are:

  • Arnaldo Camuffo
  • Andrea Coali
  • Elena Novelli
  • Saeid Kazemi
  • Francesca Bacco

Gambardella has published multiple recent papers including:

  • Profiting from Enabling Technologies? (2021, Strategy Science)
  • A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision-making: Large-scale replication and extension (2024, Strategic Management Journal)
  • Managing Autonomy in Industrial Research and Development: A Project-Level Investigation (2020, Organization Science)
  • A Scientific Method for Startups (2024, Journal of Management)
  • Theory-Driven Strategic Management Decisions (2024, Strategy Science)

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Academy of Management Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, Strategy Science, and Organization Science.

Alfonso Gambardella has been recognized as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

  • Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy

    Ashish Arora;Andrea Fosfuri;Alfonso Gambardella

  • COMPLEMENTARITY AND EXTERNAL LINKAGES: THE STRATEGIES OF THE LARGE FIRMS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY*

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • ‘Old Economy’ Inputs for ‘New Economy’ Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valleys

    Timothy Bresnahan;Alfonso Gambardella;Annalee Saxenian

  • The changing technology of technological change: general and abstract knowledge and the division of innovative labour☆

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • Technology Push and Demand Pull Perspectives in Innovation Studies: Current Findings and Future Research Directions

    Giada Di Stefano;Alfonso Gambardella;Gianmario Verona

  • Business-Model Innovation: General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for Industry Structure

    Alfonso Gambardella;Anita M. McGahan

  • Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy

    Ashish Arora;Andrea Fosfuri;Alfonso Gambardella

  • Markets for Technology and their Implications for Corporate Strategy

    Ashish Arora;Andrea Fosfuri;Alfonso Gambardella

  • Evaluating Technological Information and Utilizing It

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • The value of European patents

    Alfonso Gambardella;Dietmar Harhoff;Bart Verspagen

  • Science and Innovation: The US Pharmaceutical Industry during the 1980s

    Alfonso Gambardella

  • Does technological convergence imply convergence in markets? Evidence from the electronics industry

    Alfonso Gambardella;Salvatore Torrisi

  • Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • The market for patents in Europe

    Alfonso Gambardella;Paola Giuri;Alessandra Luzzi

  • Competitive advantages from in-house scientific research: The US pharmaceutical industry in the 1980s *

    Alfonso Gambardella;Alfonso Gambardella

  • Ideas for rent: an overview of markets for technology

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • The Market for Technology

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond

    Timothy Bresnahan;Alfonso Gambardella

  • The Globalization of the Software Industry: Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

  • A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

    Arnaldo Camuffo;Alessandro Cordova;Alfonso Gambardella;Alfonso Gambardella;Chiara Spina

  • The changing technology of technological change: general and abstract knowledge and the division of

    Ashish Arora;Alfonso Gambardella

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashish Arora
Ashish Arora Duke University
Dietmar Harhoff
Dietmar Harhoff Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Andrea Fosfuri
Andrea Fosfuri Bocconi University
Luigi Orsenigo
Luigi Orsenigo Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen Maastricht University
Fabio Pammolli
Fabio Pammolli Polytechnic University of Milan
Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall University of California, Berkeley
Will Mitchell
Will Mitchell University of Toronto
Timothy F. Bresnahan
Timothy F. Bresnahan Stanford University
Constance E. Helfat
Constance E. Helfat Dartmouth College

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