Tommaso Ciarli main research interests are in the area of technological change, institutional change, and economic development. He has lead and co-lead several funded projects on: modelling economic growth and structural change (EC, British Academy, ESRC); modelling sustainable transitions (Rebuilding Macroeconomics); mapping the relation between science, technology and innovation trajectories, sustainable development and societal challenges (UKRI/GCRF, DFID, ESRC and NSF); estimating the impact of innovation on employment and inequality (ESRC, JRF, GLA, EC); studying the relation between inclusive innovation and structural change (IDRC); estimating the impact of violent conflict on economic activity (ESRC, CEPR and DFID). 

Beyond revising papers on the above proejcts, Tommaso is currently working on several funded projects on: Steering Research and Innovation for the Global Goals, STRINGS (GCRF/ESRC); Assessment of Science, Technology and Innovation Metrics in Africa (FCDO); Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets, PILLARS (EC); Study on factors impeding the productivity of research and the prospects for open science (EC); Strengthening the Capacity of Africa’s Science Granting Councils in the Use of Evidence in Policy and Decision Making (IDRC).

He has served as advisor for governments (e.g. BEIS) and international organisations (e.g. ECLAC, UNIDO, UNDP, IDB). 

He holds a PhD in Economics and Industrial Development from the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Ferrara (Italy), a Master in Development Economics (Sussex) and a degree in Quantitative Economics and Social Sciences (Bocconi). Before his PhD, Tommaso has worked for UNIDO and ECLAC. 

	Selected publications by Tommaso Ciarli
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Confraria, Hugo, Tommaso Ciarli & Ed Noyons, 2024, Countries' research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, Research Policy, 53(3), DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104950, More information
Campi, Mercedes, Marco Dueñas & Tommaso Ciarli, 2024, Do creative industries enhance employment growth? Regional evidence from Colombia, Regional Studies, 58(3): 425-441, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2210620, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Alex Coad & Alessio Moneta, 2023, Does exporting cause productivity growth? Evidence from Chilean firms, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2023.04.015, More information
Wirkierman, Ariel L., Tommaso Ciarli & Maria Savona, 2023, A taxonomy of European innovation clubs, Economia Politica, DOI: 10.1007/s40888-022-00289-1, More information
Wirkierman, Ariel L., Tommaso Ciarli & Maria Savona, 2022, I club europei dell’innovazione, Rivista di Politica Economica, December: 133-163, More information
Savona, Maria, Tommaso Ciarli, Ed Steinmueller & Simone Vannuccini, 2022, The Design of Digital Automation Technologies: Implications for the Future of Work, EconPol Forum, 23(5): 4-10, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Florencia Jaccoud & Fabien Petit, 2022, Heterogeneous Adjustments of Employment to Automation Technologies: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in European Regions, EconPol Forum, 23(2): 24-28, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Martin Kenney, Silvia Massini & Lucia Piscitello, 2021, Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges, Research Policy, 50(7), DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104289
Book chapters
Confraria, Hugo & Tommaso Ciarli, 2022, Mapping Research Systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda and their Relation with the Sustainable Development Goals, in: Vélez-Cuartas, Gabriel and Romero-Goyeneche, Oscar Yandy (eds), Transformative Metrics : Contributions to the Studies for Monitoring and Evaluating How Science, Technology, and Innovation Can Address Social and Environmental Challenges, Universidad de Antioquia, Fondo Editorial FCSH de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Medellin, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Hugo Confraria, Ismael Rafols, Joanna Chataway & Andrew Stirling, 2021, Research Priorities May Not Align with the SDGs: Policy Suggestions to Steer Them, in: IATT, Emerging science, frontier technologies, and the SDGs - Perspectives from the UN system and science and technology communities, United Nations Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, New York, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Maria Savona & Jodie Thorpe, 2021, Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change, in: Jeong-Dong Lee, Keun Lee, Dirk Meissner, Slavo Radosevic, and Nicholas S. Vonortas (eds), Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-Up in Emerging Economies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192896049.003.0012, More information
Lorentz, André, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona & Marco Valente, 2021, Structural Transformations and Cumulative Causation Towards an Evolutionary Micro-foundation of the Kaldorian Growth Model, in: Uwe Cantner, Marco Guerzoni, Simone Vannuccini (eds), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Industrial Dynamics and Evolutionary Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso & Karolina Safarzynska, 2021, Sustainability and Industrial Change: The Hindering Role of Complexity, in: Uwe Cantner, Marco Guerzoni, Simone Vannuccini (eds), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Industrial Dynamics and Evolutionary Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso, Mattia Di Ubaldo & Maria Savona, 2020, Innovation and Self-Employment, in: Zimmermann, Klaus (ed), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_17-1, More information
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Ito, Rodrigo, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan & Fabiana Visentin, 2024, From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2024-009
Pasimeni, Francesco & Tommaso Ciarli, 2023, Reducing environmental impact through shared ownership: A model of consumer behaviour, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-015
Confraria, Hugo, Tommaso Ciarli & Ed Noyons, 2022, Countries' research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2022-030
Lorentz, André, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona & Marco Valente, 2022, Structural transformations and cumulative causation towards an evolutionary micro-foundation of the Kaldorian growth model, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2022-001
Wirkierman, Ariel L., Tommaso Ciarli & Maria Savona, 2021, A map of the fractal structure of high-tech dynamics across EU regions, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-023
Wirkierman, Ariel L., Tommaso Ciarli & Maria Savona, 2021, A taxonomy of European innovation clubs, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-020
External working papers
Jaccoud, Florencia , Fabien Petit, Tommaso Ciarli & Maria Savona, 2024, Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions, CESifo Working Papers, More information
Prytkova, Ekaterina, Fabien Petit, Deyu Li, Sugat Chaturvedi & Tommaso Ciarli, 2024, The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies, CESifo Working Paper, More information
Ito, Rodrigo, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan & Fabiana Visentin, 2024, Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile Scientists With Foreign Scientists, IDB Working Paper Series 1544, More information
Petit, Fabien, Florencia Jaccoud & Tommaso Ciarli, 2023, Heterogeneous adjustments of labor markets to automation technologies, CESifo Working Paper No. 10237, More information
Campi, Mercedes, Marco Dueñas & Tommaso Ciarli, 2022, Do creative industries enhance employment growth? regional evidence from Colombia, IDB WORKING PAPER SERIES Nº IDB-WP-1279, More information
Research memoranda
Parto, Saeed, Tommaso Ciarli & S. Arora, 2005, Economic growth, innovation systems, and institutional change: A Trilogy in Five Parts, MERIT Research Memoranda 2005-021
Research reports
Budraitis, Mantas, Paulius Pranckevicius, Ruta Delkute, A. Notten, Nordine Es-Sadki, René Wintjes, Fabiana Visentin, Tommaso Ciarli, Davide Bonaglia, Bulat Sanditov, Yağmur Yıldız & Diego Chavarro, 2023, Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science : Horizon 2020 : annexes, Publications Office of the European Union, The study presents lessons learned and recommendations for policy on excellent science under Horizon 2020. This is one of several support studies feeding into the European Commission's ex-post evaluation of the European framework programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, DOI: 10.2777/353383, More information
Budraitis, Mantas, Paulius Pranckevicius, Rute Delkute, Ad Notten, Nordine Es-Sadki, René Wintjes, Fabiana Visentin, Tommaso Ciarli, Davide Bonaglia, Bulat Sanditov, Yağmur Yıldız & Diego Chavarro, 2023, Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science; Horizon 2020 : phase 1 final study report, The study presents lessons learned and recommendations for policy on excellent science under Horizon 2020. This is one of several support studies feeding into the European Commission's ex-post evaluation of the European framework programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, DOI: 10.2777/967813, More information
Ciarli, Tommaso (ed.), 2022, Changing Directions: Steering science, technology and innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals, STRINGS, SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.20919/FSOF1258, More information
Conference contributions
Confraria, Hugo, Ed Noyons & Tommaso Ciarli, 2021, Countries' research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals, 18th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) - Online, Leuven, Belgium, 12-15 July 2021, More information
Briefs
Ciarli, Tommaso, Alaa Aldoh, Saurabh Arora, Valeria Arza, Julián Asinsten, Jacob Assa, Joanna Chataway, Hugo Confraria, Paul Nakhungu Kombo, Geoff Mulgan, Nora Ndege, Ed Noyons, John Mugabe, Bhuvana N, Ismael Rafols, Ine Steenmans, Andrew Stirling, Rasheed Sulaiman V & Alfredo Yegros, 2023, Steering science, technology and innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals, Policy Brief (8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals), More information
Data sets
Confraria, Hugo, Tommaso Ciarli, Agustina Colonna & Ed Noyons, 2023, The STRINGS queries to identify documents related to the SDGs, This page contains an Excel file with search queries to identify documents related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1-16. It also contains a document that explains the methodology used to create the queries, More information