Dr Nicolò Barbieri

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Nicolò is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Ferrara. He studies the economics of environmental innovation, including how firms develop green technologies and how public policy influences their adoption. His research uses patent and regional economic data to examine why green invention develops differently across places.

He is a member of the Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies research centre. At Ferrara, he leads the university’s scientific contribution to PACT, a European project that draws on past industrial transitions to inform current green and digital transitions.