Carlo Bottai

Carlo Bottai is a Research Fellow in Economic Statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Previously, he worked, as Postdoctoral researcher, at the Eindhoven University of Technology on two projects, one part of the EuroTech Postdoc program (co-funded by the EU’s MSCA-COFUND action), and the other funded by the EPO Academic Research Programme. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy) in March 2019. Before, he studied Political and Social Sciences at the Universities of Florence and Economics at the University of Bologna, and he attended a Master in Economics and Complexity at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin). As a PhD Student, he visited INET - University of Oxford and CID at Harvard University (HKS), for a term each. His main research interests are in the economics and geography of innovation, technology policy, and Web data for economics.

Keywords: Innovation Economics, Web data, SMEs