Scientific Council
Francesco Ramella is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turin (Italy), where he is the Head of the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society (CPS). He co-founded and was the first president of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology.
He is a member of the editorial and scientific boards of the following academic journals: “Il Mulino”, “Stato e Mercato” (for which he was editor-in-chief from 2011 to 2015); “South European Society and Politics” and “Sociologias”. He has carried out numerous studies and researches in the field of economic sociology, with a focus on innovation, the economy of collaboration, local and regional development and urban and regional governance.
Among his recent books in Italian: L’economia della collaborazione (Il Mulino, 2019, with C. Manzo); La terza missione degli accademici italiani (Il Mulino, 2018, with A. Perulli, R. Semenza, M. Rostan); Fondazioni e sviluppo locale (Donzelli 2017); Sociologia dell’innovazione economica (Il Mulino 2013); Governare città. Beni collettivi e politiche metropolitane (Donzelli-Meridiana Libri, 2012 with F. Piselli and L. Burroni); Imprese e territori dell’alta tecnologia in Italia (Il Mulino 2010, with C. Trigilia); Invenzioni e inventori in Italia (Il Mulino 2010, with C. Trigilia).
Among his recent works in other languages: The Economy of Collaboration (with Cecilia Manzo, Routledge, 2020); Sociologia da inovação econômica (UFRGS Editora, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Press, Porto Alegre, 2020); The Economy of Collaboration in the Age of Digitalization (in “Sociologies in Dialogue”, 2019); The «Enterprise of Innovation» in hard times (in “European Planning Studies”, 2017); The Innovation Paradox in Southern Europe (with Davide Donatiello, in “South European Society & Politics”, 2017); Into the Crisis: Fab Labs – a European Story (with Cecilia Manzo, in “The Sociological Review”, 2018); Sociology of Economic Innovation (Routledge, 2016); Preface: Creative Economy and Innovation Studies, (in S. Ruduit Garcia, ed., ECONOMIA CRIATIVA: HERANÇAS, INOVAÇÕES E PERSPECTIVAS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Press, 2016); Fab Labs in Italy: Collective Goods in the Sharing Economy (with Cecilia Manzo, in “Stato e Mercato” 2015); Political Economy (in G. Ritzer, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, 2015); Surfing between State and Market, for One Hundred Times (in “Stato e Mercato”, 2014); Society, Politics and Territory in Italy: What is Left? (in “South European Society & Politics”, 2010); Negotiating Local Development: The Italian Experience of “Territorial Pacts” (in “Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy”, 2010)
