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Stefano Baruffaldi

I am an Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan, School of Management and a Senior Affiliated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. My research is in the economics of science and innovation. I study how scientific and technological knowledge is produced and diffused.
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  • Jul 2026 Early-career workshop: AOM TIM × ABEINCo-organizing an online workshop of the Academy of Management Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division and the Associação Brasileira de Economia Industrial e Inovação (ABEIN), where early-career researchers in innovation pitch their work and get feedback from senior mentors (August 10). Applications close July 17.LinkedIn post
  • Jul 2026 AOM 2026 Symposium PanelJoining a symposium panel on research tools at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting — how the materials and instruments of science shape who participates in research and how it develops (Philadelphia, August 4). Organized by Jungkyu Suh, Danielle Bovenberg, and Raviv Murciano-Goroff; with Cyrus Mody, Scott Stern, and Florenta Teodoridis.LinkedIn post
  • Jan 2026 Paper published in AEJ: Applied Economics“The returns to physical capital in knowledge production: Evidence from lab disasters” (with Fabian Gaessler) is out in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.Paper page
  • Jan 2026 Representative at large, AOM TIM divisionServing as Representative at large of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management, 2026–2028.TIM division