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Silvano Bertini

Silvano Bertini is Head of Department of the Economic Development Unit of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. He is especially working for the implementation of the Industrial Research and Technology Transfer Program, whose main objectives are to consolidate the Regional Innovation System and a regional knowledge community for innovation; to develop the knowledge dimension in the productive clusters and improve their innovation capabilities; to consolidate "technological clusters", meaning a selection of innovative firms and research centres that can be the drivers of change and the various sector/technology areas; and to promote innovative clusters in emerging technologies, around knowledge organisations.

STUDIES
1987 Degree in Political Sciences (Political Economy) University of Bologna (vote 110/110). Dissertation in International Economics "The effects of import quotas on motorcycles in Italy"), Prof. Giorgio Basevi
1988 Superior School of Firm and Economy Management at the Istituto "Adriano Olivetti" (ISTAO), Ancona

KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Design, management and evaluation of local and regional development and innovations plans
International projects of technical assistance and inter-regional co-operation
Economic applied research and consultancy:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Since 2002 Emilia-Romagna Region, Industry and Trade Department, Head of the Economic Development Policies Unit
1999-01 Emilia-Romagna Region, Industry and Trade Department, staff manager
1999-02 Fondazione Istituto per il Lavoro, senior researcher
1997-99 Free consultant
1991-97 Nomisma S.p.A. (company of economic research and studies founded by Mr. Romano Prodi in 1981), senior researcher
1988-91 Nomisma S.p.A, junior researcher

TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY
2004-2007 Contract Professor at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Sciences, "Economics of Innovation"
1988-2005 Several modules and seminars in masters in economics and management
1997-02 Research visitor at the Institute of Industrial Development Policy at the University of Ferrara (joint project with the University of Birmingham, UK)

OTHER
Since 1999 Member of the Board of Advisors of The Competitiveness Institute, Barcelona, Spain

MAIN ACTIVITIES DEVELOPPED AT THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION (1999-2007)

RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY IN ITALY (1989-1999)
Various research projects, consultancies and technical assistance concerning: INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS (1989-1999)
Technical assistance projects concerning the subjects of cluster policy, SMEs and regional development, inter-cluster co-operation, and conference participation, developed in: Russian Federation, Poland, Kyrghyz Republic, Hungary, India, Argentina, Brasil, Mexico, Spain, Egypt, Tunisia and within the European Union

PUBBLICATIONS
1992 "Evoluzione e prospettive del distretto pratese", with L.Forlai in F.Nuti (editor) "I distretti dell'industria manifatturiera in Italia", Milano, Franco Angeli
1994 "SME systems and territorial development in Italy", Working Paper, Nomisma, Bologna.
1995 "La piccola impresa nello sviluppo industriale di Reggio Emilia dal dopoguerra ad oggi", in Sapelli G., Bertini S., Canovi A., Sezzi A. "Terra di imprese." Edizioni Pratiche, Parma.
1995 "La risorsa imprenditoriale e i percorsi di sviluppo aziendale" in A.A.V.V. "Lavoro creativo ed impresa efficiente" IRES Emilia Romagna, Bologna.
1995 "Le piccole imprese e l'ambiente per lo sviluppo" in "Economie locali e politiche per lo sviluppo: il caso di Reggio Emilia", Quaderni IRES, Roma
1997 "Sviluppo endogeno dei sistemi di piccole imprese. L’esperienza italiana" in "Learning region. Una strategia per lo sviluppo dei sistemi locali mediterranei", G.Altieri and F.Belussi (editors), IRES Materiali, Roma
1997 "The Italian experience and possible lessons for emerging countries" with P.Bianchi, L.M.Miller, UNIDO, Vienna.
2000 "Endogenous development of local systems of SMEs: lessons from practical experience" in "Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems", F.Belussi and G.Gottardi (editors), Ashgate, Aldershot (UK)
2000 "El fomento al desarrollo espontaneo y al clusteirng entre las pymes: un intento de definiciòn de un marco conceptual para las politicas a partir de algunas experiencias empiricas" in "Territorio, conocimiento y competitividad de las empresas: el rol de las instituciones en el espacio global", F.Boscherini e L.Poma, Mino y Davila (editors), Buenos Aires.
2000 "Competitività e processi di cambiamento nell’industria manifatturiera" with M.Ventura in "Sviluppo, lavoro e competitività in Emilia-Romagna”, Istituto per il Lavoro, Franco Angeli, Milano
2001 "Verso una economia regionale fondata sulla conoscenza, sulla qualità e sull’innovazione", Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna
2004 "Politica industriale ed evoluzione del sistema innovativo regionale", Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna
2005 "Global competition and Industrial Cluster Initiatives in Emilia-Romagna", con Andrea Bardi, in "Low-tech innovation in the Knowledge Economy" H. Hirsch-Kreinsen, D. Jacobson and S. Laestadius (editors), Peter Lang, Frankfurt
2005 "Dinamiche territoriali e nuova industria", Fondazione Istituto per il Lavoro, with Andrea Bardi.
2007 "Science-Industry Relationships. Introduction" with Lucio Poma, in "ERIK Policy Reccomandations", European Commission.