I received my Ph.D. in Economics and Technology Management from the University of Bergamo (Italy). Currently, I am Associate Professor (Maitre de Conférences - HDR) at the Université Côte d’Azur and Scientific Advisor at Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, HCERES (France). I was a postdoctoral fellow at EPFL (Switzerland), Bicocca University (Italy), and University of Brescia (Italy).
My main research interests concern the economics of science and innovation. Currently, I am focusing on two subjects: (i) the study of the private and public funding of science and (ii) the study of PhD students’ productivity and careers. In this latter subject, I recently obtained an ANR grant to study the impact of Artificial Intelligence competencies acquired during the PhD training on graduates' careers. I am also interested in more classical subjects in innovation, such as the study of technological trajectories and the university-industry technology transfer. Technique-wise, I use large datasets (millions of observations), and I am attracted by the study of specific econometric problems, data quality issues, simulations, and network analysis. In my current research, I am applying machine learning techniques for text analysis on large corpora of documents, including patents, publications, and PhD thesis documents.
Over my career, I have published 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, my works have been cited 1,653 times. My h-index equals 20, meaning that I have 20 works that received more than 20 citations. -> Google scholar profile -> ORCID profile
Contact:Michele.PEZZONI@univ-cotedazur.fr
CV: CV (last update 2/12/2025)