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Roberta Rabellotti
Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Università di Pavia
Roberta Rabellotti is Full Professor of Economics at the Università di Pavia, Italy. She has got a Master of Science in Development Economics at the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She specializes in the analysis of the industrial sector in developing countries. Her areas of interest are: industrial policies, small business promotion, international trade policies, industrial districts and clusters, global value chains.
MORE ABOUT ROBERTA RABELLOTTI >2023
Rasmus Lema and Roberta Rabellotti
The Green and Digital Transition in Manufacturing Global Value Chains in Latecomer Countries
This paper is based on a review of the literature that brings together GVCs, green and digital transformations. Or to be more precise, the analysis is based on three main components: (a) the greening of GVCs and environmental upgrading; (b) the digital transformation of manufacturing GVCs and (c) an...
2023
Elisabetta Gentile, Rasmus Lema, Roberta Rabellotti, and Dalila Ribaudo
Greening Global Value Chains: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Action
Vito Amendolagine, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Rasmus Lema, Roberta Rabellotti, Dalila Ribaudo
Taking advantage of Global Value Chains to spread green energy technologies across countries
Renewable energy technologies, such as wind turbines and solar photovoltaic (PV), are key to achieve a low-carbon transition and make our planet greener (Pegels and Altenburg, 2020). While countries in Europe have previously been the lead markets, the development and diffusion of renewable energy te...
Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti, Antonio Vezzani
Integration in global IT value chains does not necessarily improve innovation capacity
Global Value Chains (GVC) have characterized the evolution of the global economy during the last three decades. Integration in GVC offers remarkable potential for international tasks specialization and for accessing key knowledge and technology. Yet, it is less clear whether and under which circumst...
2019
Vito Amendolagine, Andrea F. Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti, Marco Sanfilippo
Local sourcing in developing countries: The role of foreign direct investments and global value chains
The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors. Matchin...
2019
Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti
Innovation in global value chains
In this chapter, the authors focus on innovation in global value chains and on the role that such chains play in building and deepening capability. They also focus on the trajectories along which firms, located in developing countries, once inserted into global value chains acquire or lose innovatio...
2019
Amendolagine, V., Chaminade, C., Guimón, J., & Rabellotti, R.
Cross-border Knowledge Flows Through R&D FDI: Implications for Low-and Middle-income Countries.
R&D related foreign direct investments represent a powerful mechanism for cross-border knowledge sharing that can stimulate the process of technological catch-up. However, low-income countries and smaller middle-income countries remain largely excluded from this kind of global flows of knowledge...
