Cornelia Lawson

Vita

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for the Economics of Innovation “Franco Momigliano” (LEI), Fondazione Rosselli and a research associate at the Bureau for Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (BRICK), Collegio Carlo Alberto and at the University of Torino. I was awarded a PhD in Economics from City University, London, in January, 2011.

I joined the Department of Economics at City University, London as a research assistant in 2007, and in 2008 I transferred to PhD studies under the supervision of Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Albert Banal-Estanol. During my PhD study period I spent 9 months as a Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden and 2 weeks at the Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies (KITeS) Centre, Bocconi University, Italy. I received several grants and prizes, including the BRICK-DIME Best Junior Scholar Paper Award, a DIME Visiting Fellowship, a Conference Grant of the Royal Economic Society and a KITeS Research Grant. My main research interests are in the areas of the Economics of Science and Innovation. I am specifically interested in university-industry-collaboration, dynamics of research and researcher mobility.

Prior to my PhD studies I was a postgraduate student of Japanese Studies at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen, Germany and at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan and held a scholarship from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and the prestigious Monbukagakusho research student scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.