Publications by Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Determinants of PhD holders' use of social networking sites: An analysis based on LinkedIn

Social networking sites are an increasingly important tool for career development, especially for highly skilled individuals. Moreover, they may constitute valuable sources of data for scholars and policy makers. However, little research has been conducted ...

Elsevier2017

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations

Julio Diego Salvador Raffo, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations. Regional Studies. Innovators often claim inventions that turn out to duplicate, at least in part, existing ones. This paper advances the claim that for recent and upcoming inventions, ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Mobility Intentions of Foreign Researchers: The Role of Non-economic Motivations

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Recent contributions suggest that non-economic factors could be important motivational drivers of scientific mobility. We investigate this hypothesis in a sample of foreign researchers in Italy and Portugal, examining their willingness to leave the host co ...

Taylor & Francis2016

Self-employment, start-up incentives and political ideology

Marianna Marino, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

We find evidence that public start-up incentives promote self-employment. This public policy seems to affect more women than men. ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

The productivity of science & engineering PhD students hired from supervisors’ networks

Fabiana Visentin, Annamaria Conti, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

We compare the scientific productivity of PhD students who are hired from a fine-grained set of mutually exclusive affiliation types: a PhD supervisor's affiliation, an external affiliation from which the supervisor derives her coauthors, and an external a ...

Elsevier2016

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Return mobility and scientific productivity of researchers working abroad: The role of home country linkages

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Through an analysis of 497 foreign researchers in Italy and Portugal we verify the impact of home linkages on return mobility choices and scientific productivity. We consider the presence of several different types of linkages of the researchers working ab ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012