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Sandro Montresor

Sandro Montresor

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
32
Citations
4517
World Ranking
2667
National Ranking
85

Economics and Finance

D-Index
33
Citations
4785
World Ranking
3274
National Ranking
78

Overview

Sandro Montresor is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of economics, innovation, and regional development, with particular attention to the environmental and technological dimensions of economic growth.

Their scholarly work spans the main fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Subfields of expertise include Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Accounting, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Montresor's research topics cover diverse areas such as:

  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Firm Innovation and Growth

Their publication record includes multiple papers in reputed journals, with a focus on the role of digital technologies, environmental innovation, regional economies, and the impact of technology on industrial transformation. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms" (2023) published in Industry and Innovation
  • "The geography of COVID-19 and the structure of local economies: The case of Italy" (2020) published in Journal of Regional Science
  • "Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?" (2022) published in Regional Studies
  • "Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies" (2021) published in Research Policy
  • "Firms and innovation in the new industrial paradigm of the digital transformation" (2023) published in Industry and Innovation

Montresor has frequently published in leading venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regional Studies
  • Industry and Innovation
  • Research Policy
  • Economic Geography

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Montresor's research career, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Antonio Vezzani
  • Francesco Rentocchini
  • Davide Castellani
  • Fabrizio Fusillo
  • Alessandra Faggian

This profile reflects Sandro Montresor's engagement with current topics such as the twin transition involving digital and ecological innovation, regional specialization in green technologies, and the impacts of global crises on local economies. Their work contributes to understanding the dynamics of technological and environmental change within industrial and regional contexts.

Best Publications

  • The open eco-innovation mode. An empirical investigation of eleven European countries

    Claudia Ghisetti;Alberto Marzucchi;Alberto Marzucchi;Sandro Montresor

  • Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization

    Giulio Cainelli;Massimiliano Mazzanti;Sandro Montresor

  • Financing constraints, R&D investments and innovative performances: new empirical evidence at the firm level for Europe

    BH Hall;P Moncada-Paternò-Castello;S Montresor;A Vezzani

  • Forms of knowledge and eco-innovation modes: Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

    Alberto Marzucchi;Alberto Marzucchi;Sandro Montresor

  • Intersectoral innovation flows and national technological systems: network analysis for comparing Italy and Germany

    R. Leoncini;M.A. Maggioni;S. Montresor

  • The geography of COVID-19 and the structure of local economies: The case of Italy.

    Andrea Ascani;Alessandra Faggian;Sandro Montresor

  • Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data.

    Sandro Montresor;Francesco Quatraro

  • Green technologies and Smart Specialisation Strategies: a European patent-based analysis of the intertwining of technological relatedness and key enabling technologies

    Sandro Montresor;Francesco Quatraro

  • The deindustrialisation/tertiarisation hypothesis reconsidered: a subsystem application to the OECD7

    Sandro Montresor;Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti

  • ‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth

    Riccardo Leoncini;Riccardo Leoncini;Alberto Marzucchi;Sandro Montresor;Francesco Rentocchini;Francesco Rentocchini

  • Regional Innovation Policy and Innovative Behaviour: Looking for Additional Effects

    Davide Antonioli;Alberto Marzucchi;Sandro Montresor

  • The production function of top R&D investors: Accounting for size and sector heterogeneity with quantile estimations

    Sandro Montresor;Antonio Vezzani

  • Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?

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  • Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies

    Davide Castellani;Davide Castellani;Giovanni Marin;Sandro Montresor;Antonello Zanfei

  • Do KIBS make manufacturing more innovative? An empirical investigation of four European countries ☆

    Daria Ciriaci;Sandro Montresor;Daniela Palma

  • On the adoption of circular economy practices by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs): does “financing-as-usual” still matter?

    Claudia Ghisetti;Sandro Montresor

  • Intangible investments and innovation propensity: Evidence from the Innobarometer 2013

    Sandro Montresor;Antonio Vezzani

  • Multinationality, R&D and productivity : Evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide

    Davide Castellani;Sandro Montresor;Torben Schubert;Antonio Vezzani

  • Resources, capabilities, competences and the theory of the firm

    Sandro Montresor

  • Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms

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  • Innovation Clusters in Technological Systems: A Network Analysis of 15 OECD Countries for the Mid-1990s

    Sandro Montresor;Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti

  • Techno-globalism, techno-nationalism and technological systems: organizing the evidence

    Sandro Montresor

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimiliano Mazzanti
Massimiliano Mazzanti University of Ferrara
Francesco Quatraro
Francesco Quatraro University of Turin
Davide Castellani
Davide Castellani University of Reading
Bronwyn H. Hall
Bronwyn H. Hall University of California, Berkeley
Michaela Trippl
Michaela Trippl University of Vienna

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