Cristiano Antonelli holds the chair of Political Economy of the University of Torino, where he is also the Director of the Department of Economics Cognetti de Martiis and of BRICK (Bureau of Research on Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge) at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. He is the the managing editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology. His previous book The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change (2003) is also available from Routledge.