Marco Bellandi

Biography

Born in Florence on January 27, 2006, he is an Ordinary Professor of Economics at the University of Florence since 2008. He is a Ph.D. in Political Economy (first cycle, 1984-87, headquarters: University of Siena), with thesis titled : "Transaction costs and organization of size economies". He teaches Economics and Industrial Policy and Local Industrial Development for some Master's Degrees from the Economics School and from AI. 2016-2017 Economics and development of production systems for the three-year degree in Economics and Commerce; He is a member of the faculty member of the "Development Economics and Local Systems (DELoS)" University of Florence and Trento (http://web.unitn.it/en/drss-delos/35582/delos). Institutional: He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Confucius Institute at the University of Florence and a member of the Board of Directors of the University Services Center for the Confucius Institute. He is a fellow of the Foundation for Research and Innovation. He is a member of the Consiglo scientifico for the strategic plan of the metropolitan city of Florence. He was a lecturer on technology transfer and relations with the territorial system from November 2009 to October 2015, and with various time intersections with this position he was: the first president of the University Services Center for enhancing research results and Management of the university incubator (http://www.csavri.unifi.it), President of the Foundation for Research and Innovation (www.fondazionericerca.unifi.it),Http://www.istitutoconfucio.unifi.it/) . Prior to 2009, he was a member of the University's Internal Assessment Team at the University of Florence, chairman of the Political Economics degree course (old-fashioned) and of the Economics and Business Degree Course. Committees: Member of the Board of Directors of AISRE - Italian Association of Regional Science (for the period 2016-2019); Member of the Growth, Investment and Territorial Discussion Group http://economia.uniroma2.it/dmd/crescita-investimenti-e-territorio; Member of the Scientific Committee of IRES-Tuscany; Associate Editor of Economics and Industrial Policy - Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 2015-2017; Member of Revue d'Economie industrielle; Member of the Scientific Committees of the Eunip Conference (European Network on Industrial Policy) from 2002 to 2008 (and Scientific Coordinator of the 2007 Conference www.pin.unifi.it/eunip2007); member of the Artimino Meetings on Local Development since 2007 http://www.incontridiartimino.it(And scientific coordinator since the 2009 edition). He was co-founder of C-MET / 05 Interuniversity Center of Economics applied to the policies for industry, local development and internationalization (www.cmet.it). He was a member of the SIEPI Board of Directors - Italian Economy and Industrial Policy Company.

Research Interest

Research builds on Marshall's contributions to the Organization of Industry, along with contemporary models of analysis of industrial organization and the investigation of case studies. In particular: - Investigation of the problems of organization in production systems with a decentralized entrepreneurial structure, focusing on the solutions that are suggested by or consistent with conditions that are typically found in industrial districts. - In particular, defining conceptual frameworks on the opportunities and limitations of decentralized industrial creativity, the process of continuous and discontinuous change in industrial districts, the support of specific public goods to the realization of various classes of district economies and processes of district internationalization supported By trans-local public goods. - Defining various paths of local development more or less dissimilar from the classical district path, including the dynamic city, local systems with embedded large companies, and high tech clusters. - Applied research on the character of industrial development in Guandong (China), considering the comparison between the importance of specialized cities there and the development of industrial districts in some Italian regions - Applied research on innovation policy and university-industry relations in local and regional spaces. Theoretical research has thus combined with empirical investigation and coordination of research projects. This combination has been realized at regional (especially Tuscany), national and international level, also through participation in various research groups and several conferences and workshops, national and international.