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Franco Malerba

Franco Malerba

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Business and Management
Italy
2026
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Economics and Finance
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
67
Citations
28725
World Ranking
354
National Ranking
2

Economics and Finance

D-Index
67
Citations
28713
World Ranking
527
National Ranking
12

Franco Malerba publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Franco Malerba sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 228 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Franco Malerba D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Franco Malerba sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Franco Malerba is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, and Accounting.

Their scholarly output is concentrated on topics such as Innovation and Knowledge Management, Firm Innovation and Growth, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, and the intersection of Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth.

Franco Malerba's recent publications include:

  • An evolutionary perspective on economic catch-up by latecomers, 2021, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • China's leapfrogging in electromobility. A story of green transformation driving catch-up and competitive advantage, 2022, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Evolutionary Approaches to Innovation, the Firm, and the Dynamics of Industries, 2021, Strategy Science
  • Technological regimes, patent growth, and catching-up in green technologies, 2021, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship: What is the Role of the Founders' Entrepreneurial Background?, 2022, Journal of Business Ethics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Roberto Fontana
  • Gino Cattani
  • Nicoletta Corrocher
  • Stefano Breschi
  • Keun Lee

Franco Malerba has published extensively in several academic venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics
  • Strategy Science
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Best Publications

  • Sectoral systems of innovation and production

    Franco Malerba

  • Technological Regimes and Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation

    Stefano Breschi;Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Learning by Firms and Incremental Technical Change

    Franco Malerba

  • Knowledge-relatedness in firm technological diversification

    Stefano Breschi;Francesco Lissoni;Franco Malerba

  • Technological Regimes and Sectoral Patterns of Innovative Activities

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Schumpeterian patterns of innovation

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Innovation and the Evolution of Industries

    Franco Malerba

  • Schumpeterian patterns of innovation are technology-specific

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Sectoral systems of innovation: a framework for linking innovation to the knowledge base, structure and dynamics of sectors

    Franco Malerba

  • 'History-friendly' models of industry evolution: the computer industry

    F Malerba;R Nelson;L Orsenigo;S Winter

  • The Geography of Innovation and Economic Clustering: Some Introductory Notes

    Stefano Breschi;Franco Malerba

  • Technological Regimes and Firm Bebavior

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Sectoral Systems of Innovation: Concepts, Issues and Analyses of Six Major Sectors in Europe

    Franco Malerba

  • The Dynamics and Evolution of Industries

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Catch-up cycles and changes in industrial leadership:Windows of opportunity and responses of firms and countries in the evolution of sectoral systems ☆

    Keun Lee;Franco Malerba

  • Clusters, networks, and innovation

    Stefano Breschi;Franco Malerba

  • Knowledge, innovative activities and industrial evolution

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

  • Sectoral systems of innovation

    Franco Malerba;Pamela Adams

  • Sectoral Systems: How and Why Innovation Differs across Sectors

    Franco Malerba

  • Innovation and market structure in the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology: towards a history‐friendly model

    Franco Malerba;Luigi Orsenigo

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Orsenigo
Luigi Orsenigo Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Sidney G. Winter
Sidney G. Winter University of Pennsylvania
Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson Columbia University
Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni Dosi Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Nicholas S. Vonortas
Nicholas S. Vonortas George Washington University
Keun Lee
Keun Lee Chung-Ang University
Maureen McKelvey
Maureen McKelvey University of Gothenburg
Constance E. Helfat
Constance E. Helfat Dartmouth College
Wesley M. Cohen
Wesley M. Cohen Duke University
Andreas Pyka
Andreas Pyka University of Hohenheim

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