Maria Savona is Research Associate at the Cambridge-MIT Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. She is also Senior Lecturer in Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Lille 1, France and Visiting Fellow at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK.

She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK. Her PhD thesis is titled “Structural Change, Technology and the Growth of Services”.

She has been a Post-doc fellow at BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, ULP, Strasbourg, France, with a French CNRS post-doc fellowship. She has been granted an EU TMR Marie Curie fellowship for a PhD programme at SPRU; an Italian CNR fellowship for a visiting at the University of Reading, UK.

She has collaborated with the Italian National Research Council, the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and the University of Camerino, where she has been lecturer for the courses of Economic Policy and Economics. She has been involved in several European research projects on the economic and employment effects of technical change in the service sectors.

Her research interests include economics of technical change and innovation, structural change and macroeconomic growth; regional innovation and growth; innovation in services. She has extensively worked on micro-data from the Community Innovation Survey and macro-data from OECD STAN and Input-Output.

Email: m.savona@cmi.cam.ac.uk

Last updated:06/07/2006