Dr. Mario Coccia
National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Mario Coccia is a social scientist the National Research Council of Italy and Arizona State University (USA). He has been research scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and visiting professor at the Polytechnics of Torino and University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). He has developed scientific research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Yale University, UNU-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (United Nations University-MERIT), RAND Corporation (Washington D.C.), University of Maryland (College Park), Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée (Strasbourg, France), Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto, Canada), and Institute for Science and Technology Studies (University of Bielefeld, Germany). He investigates, by using statistical analyses, models, doing experiments, and conducting observational studies with interdisciplinary scientific perspective in order to explain the evolutionary properties of science and technology in society, emerging research fields and related scientific development, new technological trajectories, processes of coevolution between technologies, and the measurement of scientific and technological advances over time and space. He is in the Editorial Board of manifold international journals and his research publications include more than three hundred international papers in several disciplines.