Pablo D'Este

Current position. Scientist Researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), working at INGENIO, a joint Institute of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research and the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Training. Pablo D’Este has a Degree in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and a Masters Degree in Applied Economics from UAB. He was awarded a PhD degree in 2003 from SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex; his thesis is on firm heterogeneity in the development of technological capabilities in the Spanish pharmaceutical industry.

Work experience. Pablo D’Este was a teaching assistant in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 1992 to 1998. He was a Research Fellow at SPRU from 2002 to 2008, and was supported by a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship between 2004 to 2005. In 2006, he was appointed an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, and held a double appointment at Cranfield School of Management and SPRU, University of Sussex, between 2006 and 2008. Since July 2008 he has been a researcher at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV).

Research interests. His research covers the following topics: industrial dynamics and innovation; dynamic capabilities and knowledge creation in firms; university-business interactions and their impact on academic and business performance; academic entrepreneurship; proximity and formation of research partnerships; and the sources of and barriers to innovation.