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Alessandro Nuvolari
Alessandro Nuvolari completed his first degree in economics and social sciences at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), before obtaining his PhD at the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS). He is currently Assistant Professor in the Economics of Science and Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and research fellow at the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS, see http://fp.tm.tue.nl/ecis). His research interests are mostly related with the nature of innovation and technical change during the British Industrial Revolution.
His publications include “The ‘machine breakers’ and the Industrial Revolution” (Journal of European Economic History, 2002), “Collective Invention during the British Industrial Revolution: the case of the Cornish pumping engine” (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004) and (with K. Frenken). “The early history of the steam engine: an evolutionary interpretation using complexity theory” (Industrial and Corporate Change, 2004).
