Marsili, Dr Orietta

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Orietta Marsili Associate Professor T11-51 +31 10 408 9508 +31 10 408 9638 omarsili@rsm.nl

Research Interest

• Technology entrepreneurship
• Firm growth and survival
• Sources and effects of innovation
• Industry evolution

Education

D.Phil. Science and Technology Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex.

Laureate (cum laude). Statistics and Economics. University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 2003 - present
• Assistant Professor, Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2001 – 2003.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, ECIS - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology, 1999 – 2001.
• Research assistant, SPRU, University of Sussex, 1998-1999. Participated in projects financed by the EU's fourth frame programme ‘Targeted Socio-Economic Research’ (TSER): “European Biotechnology Innovation Systems (EBIS)”, co-ordinated by Jacqueline Senker, and “Dynamic Capabilities, Growth and Long-term Competitiveness of European Firms (DYNACOM): a Diagnosis and the Implications for European Union Policies”, coordinated by Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt.
• Research assistant, IIASA-International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxemburg, Austria, June – September 1993. Project: “Technological and Economic Dynamics” coordinated by Yuri Kaniovski.

Journal articles

• Marsili O. and A. Salter, (2006) The Dark Matter of Innovation: Design and Innovative Performance, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, In press.
• Cefis E., and O. Marsili (2006), Survivor: The Role of Innovation in Firm’s Survival. Research Policy, 35(5) 626-641.
• De Jong, J.P.J. and O.Marsili (2006), The Fruit Flies of Innovation: A Taxonomy of Innovative Small Firms, Research Policy, 35(2), pp. 213-229.
• Marsili O. (2006) Stability and Turbulence of the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing. International Review of Applied Economics, 20(2), pp. 255-272.
• Brusoni S., O. Marsili and A. Salter (2005), The Role of Codified Sources of Knowledge in Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 15(2), pp. 211 – 223.
• Cefis, E., and O. Marsili (2005), A matter of life and death: Innovation and Firm Survival, Industrial and Corporate Change, 14(6), pp.1-26.
• Marsili O., (2005) Technology and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from Dutch manufacturing. Review of Industrial Organization, 27(4), pp 1-26. Awarded the “ Best Paper for a Young Scholar” Award by the Industrial Organization Society.
• Marsili O., and A. Salter (2005), ‘Inequality’ of Innovation: Skewed Distributions and the Returns to Innovation in Dutch Manufacturing, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 14(1-2), pp. 83-102.
• Acha, V., O. Marsili and R. Nelson (2004). What do we know about innovation? Editorial. Research Policy,  33(9), pp. 1253-1258.
• Marsili, O. (2002). Technological regimes and sources of entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 19(3), pp. 217 – 231.
• Marsili, O. and B. Verspagen (2002). Technology and the dynamics of industrial structures: An empirical mapping of Dutch manufacturing. Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(4), pp. 791-815.
• Dosi, G., F. Malerba, O. Marsili, and L. Orsenigo (1997), Industrial structures and dynamics: Evidence, interpretations and puzzles. Industrial and Corporate Change, 6, 1-22.
• Dosi, G., O. Marsili, L. Orsenigo and R. Salvatore (1995). Learning, market selection and the evolution of industrial structures. Small Business Economics, 7(6), pp. 411-436.

Books

• Marsili, O. (2001). The Anatomy and Evolution of Industries: Technological Change and Industrial Dynamics . Preface by G. Dosi and K. Pavitt, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Chapters in books

• Cefis, E. and O. Marsili (2006), "Innovation Premium and the Survival of Entrepreneurial firms", in E. Santarelli (ed.), Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: The Dynamics Of Firms And Industries, Series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship, Vol. 12, Springer, Heidelberg and New York. (ISBN: 0-387-28868-6)
• Dosi, G., O. Marsili, L. Orsenigo and R. Salvatore. Learning, market selection and the evolution of industrial structures, in Dosi, G. (2000), Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Reports and Working Papers

• De Jong, J.P.J., and O. Marsili (2004), How do firms innovate? A classification of Dutch SMEs, Research Report H200407, EIM, Zoetermeer.
• Marsili, O. (2000), Sources of Concentration and Turbulence in Evolutionary Environments: Simulations of Learning and Selection, ECIS Working Paper Series, 00.14.
• Marsili, O. (2000), Technological Regimes: Theory and Evidence, DYNACOM Working Paper Series, St’Anna School of Advanced Studies.
• Marsili, O. (1999), National Systems of Innovation: Survey of the Literature, in Senker, J., O. Marsili, S. Worner, T. Reiss, V. Mangematin, C. Enzing, and S. Kern (1999), Literature Review for European Biotechnology Systems (EBIS), EC TSER project.

Editor of special issues of journals

• Micro-Economics of innovation, (with Virginia Acha), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 14 (1-2). 2005.
• What do we know about innovation (with Virginia Acha and Richard Nelson), Research Policy, 33 (9), 2004.

Reviewer

• Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.