Mario Coccia is a research director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). He has been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and visiting professor at the Polytechnics of Torino and University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy). He has conducted research work in manifold international institutions, such as Yale University, Georgia Institute of Technology, RAND Corporation, Arizona State University, United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maryland (College Park), Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée (Strasbourg), Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto), and Institute for Science and Technology Studies (University of Bielefeld). He investigates, with interdisciplinary scientific approaches, the determinants of socioeconomic phenomena in the research fields of technology, sustainable growth, and how environment interfaces with human society. He has written more than three hundred international papers in several disciplines, and he is member of Editorial Board of manifold international journals.
