Publications on evaluation and policy analysis

Reports

Evaluation of EIB advisory activities in the European Union
Client: European Investment Bank
Year: 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Urban Development
Client: EU Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2021
The Role of Evaluation in Cohesion Policy
Client: EU Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2020
The pathways from experiments to innovation impacts: evidence from ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility
Client: EU Commission, H2020 research and innovation programme (RI-PATHS project)
Year: 2020
Smart guide to cluster policy monitoring and evaluation
Client: EU Commission, EASME
Year: 2020
Improving Transport Project Appraisals in the Islamic Countries
Client: Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC)
Year: 2019
How to tackle challenges in a future-oriented EU industrial strategy?
Client: EU Parliament, ITRE Committee
Year: 2019
Cluster programmes in Europe and beyond
Client: EU Commission, DG GROW (European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change)
Year: 2019
Guidelines on Cost Estimation of Research Infrastructures
Client: European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
Year: 2019
Risk Management in Transport PPP Projects in the Islamic Countries
Client: Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC)
Year: 2019
Digital Agenda and Cohesion Policy
Client: EU Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2018
Public Private Partnership and Cohesion Policy
Client: European Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2017
Intrastat Administrative Burden Study
Client: Intrastat
Year: 2016
Space Market Uptake in Europe
Client: European Parliament, ITRE committee
Year: 2016
Study on ICT in the developing world
Client: European Parliament, DG EPRS
Year: 2015
SME in the cohesion policy management cycle
Client: European Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2013
Internet, Digital Agenda and economic development of European regions
Client: European Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2013
How Can Regional and Cohesion Policies Tackle Demographic Challenges?
Client: European Parliament, REGI Committee
Year: 2013

Publications

CBA in decision-making processes of EU-27
Authors: Raffaele Articolo, Massimo Florio
Journal: CSIL working paper 01/2023
Year: 2023
The outcomes of public procurements: an empirical analysis of the Italian space industry
Authors: Catalano, Giffoni, Castelnovo, Landoni
Journal: The Journal of Technology Transfer
Year: 2023
Digitalisation in a Multilevel Governance Context: The Case of Cohesion Policy
Authors: Julie Pellegrin, Louis Colnot
Journal: Carlos Rodrigues, Filipe Teles (eds.), "Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: communities, technologies, and impact”, Palgrave.
Year: 2023
European pharmaceutical research and development. Could a public infrastructure overcome market failures?
Authors: Florio, Pancotti
Journal: CSIL working paper 02/2022
Year: 2022
Projecting the socio-economic impact of a big science center: the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN
Authors: Francesco Giffoni, Massimo Florio
Journal: Applied Economics
Year: 2022
Estimations of SDR in selected countries
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Chiara Pancotti
Journal: CSIL working paper 01/2022
Year: 2022
From scientific experiments to innovation: Impact pathways of a Synchrotron Light Facility
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Silvia Vignetti, Gaston García López, Alejandro Sánchez
Journal: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
Year: 2021
Human and social capital accumulation within Research Infrastructures: the case of CERN
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Francesco Giffoni, Valentina Morretta
Journal: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
Year: 2021
Designing a Research Infrastructure with Impact in Mind
Authors: Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Springer, Science Policy Reports book series
Year: 2020
The Economics of Physics: The Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Large Research Infrastructures
Authors: Massimo Florio, Chiara Pancotti
Journal: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Physics. Oxford University Press
Year: 2020
Analytical framework for ex-post evaluation of transport projects: lessons learnt on retrospective CBA
Authors: Silvia Vignetti, Francesco Giffoni, Chiara Pancotti, Francesca Pagliara
Journal: Regional Science
Year: 2019
Understanding transport project appraisal in its institutional dimension
Authors: Chiara Pancotti, Matteo Pedralli, Geert Smit, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: CSIL working paper 02/2019
Year: 2019
Bologna: A Sustainable Culture
Authors: Gianni Carbonaro, Chiara Pancotti
Journal: European Investment Bank's website
Year: 2019
On Balance: Using Retrospective Analysis to Increase Policy Learning in Europe
Authors: Chiara Pancotti
Journal: Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
Year: 2019
Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of Research Infrastructures: A Systematic Review of Existing Approaches and the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Authors: Francesco Giffoni, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: L'industria, Rivista di economia e politica industriale 1/2019
Year: 2019
FCC Physics Opportunities
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: The European Physical Journal C (EPJC)
Year: 2019
L’impatto sociale della produzione di scienza su larga scala: come governarlo?
Authors: Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni
Journal: Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità
Year: 2019
The Contribution of Cohesion Policy to Digitalisation: an Adequate Approach?
Authors: Julie Pellegrin, Louis Colnot
Journal: CSIL working paper 01/2019
Year: 2019
Ex-post evaluation of major infrastructure projects
Authors: Gerard de Jong, Silvia Vignetti, Chiara Pancotti
Journal: Transportation Research Procedia
Year: 2019
The economic impact of technological procurement for large-scale research infrastructures: Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Authors: Paolo Castelnovo, Massimo Florio, Stefano Forte, Lucio Rossi, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Research Policy, Volume 47, Issue 9, pages 1853-1867
Year: 2018
The Role of Financial Instruments in PPP Blended Projects
Authors: Gianni Carbonaro, Gelsomina Catalano, Laura Delponte, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: European Structural and Investment Funds Journal
Year: 2018
Evaluating Business Support Measures: the Bayesian Network Approach
Authors: Francesco Giffoni, Silvia Salini, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Evaluation, SAGE.
Year: 2018
The Essentials: A Short Course for Young Professionals
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Massimo Florio
Journal: Farrow, Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis, Elgar.
Year: 2018
Evaluating Knowledge Projects and R&D Infrastructures with an Example
Authors: Massimo Florio, Chiara Pancotti
Journal: Farrow, Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis
Year: 2018
How do research intensive systems emerge in less developed areas? The case of mechatronics in the Italian Southern region Apulia
Authors: Stefano Clò, Massimo Florio, Julie Pellegrin, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development
Year: 2018
Le (grandi) infrastrutture di ricerca. Costi pubblici e benefici privati della produzione di conoscenza
Authors: Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni
Journal: Etica ed Economia
Year: 2018
Big science, learning, and innovation: evidence from CERN procurement
Authors: Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni, Anna Giunta, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford Publishing
Year: 2018
Should governments fund basic science? Evidence from a willingness-to-pay experiment in five universities
Authors: Gelsomina Catalano, Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni
Journal: Journal of Economic Policy Reform
Year: 2018
Big-Science, Learning and Innovation: Evidence from CERN Procurement
Authors: Massimo Florio, Francesco Giffoni, Anna Giunta, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: University Roma 3 Working Paper. n. 225
Year: 2017
Testing intervention theory using Bayesian Network Analysis: evidence from a pilot exercise on SMEs support
Authors: Emanuela Sirtori, Elena Vallino, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Pokorski, Popis, Wyszynska, Hermann-Pawlowska (eds), Theory-based evaluation in complex environment, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development
Year: 2017
How to Design Effective Strategies to Support SMEs Innovation and Growth During the Economic Crisis
Authors: Massimo Florio, Elena Vallino, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: European Structural and Investment Funds Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 99
Year: 2017
The economic development effect of a transhipment port. The case of Gioia Tauro
Authors: Mario Genco, Emanuela Sirtori, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Monios and Wilmsmeier (eds), Maritime Mobilities, Routledge.
Year: 2017
Smart specialisation in a lagging behind region: the case of Apulia
Authors: Chiara Pancotti, Emanuela Sirtori, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Regions, N. 301, issue I, pp. 25-28
Year: 2016
Forecasting the Socio-Economic Impact of the Large Hadron Collider: a Cost-Benefit Analysis to 2025 and beyond
Authors: Massimo Florio, Stefano Forte, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 112: 38-53
Year: 2016
Social benefits and costs of large scale research infrastructures
Authors: Massimo Florio, Stefano Forte, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Technological Forecasting & Social Change,112: 65-78
Year: 2016
Supporting SMEs innovation and growth: lessons learned from a theory-based impact evaluation
Authors: Massimo Florio, Julie Pellegrin, Emanuela Sirtori, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Dotti (ed), Learning from implementation and evaluation of the EU Cohesion Policy: Lessons from a research-policy dialogue, RSA Research Network on Cohesion Policy, Brussels
Year: 2016
Exploring Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research, Development and Innovation Infrastructures: An Evaluation Framework
Authors: Massimo Florio, Chiara Pancotti, Emanuela Sirtori, Silvia Vignetti, Stefano Forte
Journal: Arxiv Working paper
Year: 2016
Survey Results on EU Institutions’ Policies in ICTs for Development
Authors: Laura Delponte et al.
Journal: Health Policy and Technology
Year: 2015
Additionality and Regional Public Finance. Evidence from Italy
Authors: Chiara Del Bo, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(5), pages 855-878, August
Year: 2015
Fostering Regional Integration in Africa: Lessons from Manantali Energy Project
Authors: Albert-Enéas Gakusi, Laura Delponte, Samson K. Houetohossou
Journal: Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 91-102
Year: 2015
Applied Welfare Economics
Authors: Massimo Florio, with contributions from Chiara Pancotti, Emanuela Sirtori, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: Routledge
Year: 2014
The use of ex post Cost-Benefit Analysis to assess the long-term effects of Major Infrastructure Projects
Authors: Massimo Florio, Silvia Vignetti
Journal: CSIL Working Paper N.02/2013
Year: 2013
The social cost of capital: recent estimates for the EU countries
Authors: Massimo Florio, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: CSIL Working Paper N.03/2013
Year: 2013
Methodologies to assess the impact of infrastructure projects in international development evaluation
Authors: Julie Pellegrin, Emanuela Sirtori
Journal: CSIL Working Paper N.2012/02
Year: 2012