Full Professor
Department of Economics
Via Monte Generoso, 71 - 21100 Varese - Italy
Tel: +39 (0)332 395544
Fax: +39 (0)332 395509
E-mail: gioacchino.garofoli@uninsubria.it

Full Professor of Economic Policy at the School of Economics of the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy).
Previously Full Professor in Regional Economics at the University of Pavia and in Economic Policy at the University of Bari.

President of the Neo-Latin Economists Association (since 2005).
Past President of the AISRE (Italian Section of Regional Science Association) (2001-2004).
Visiting Professor at the Universities of Grenoble (1992-93 and 2003-2004) and Toulouse (1991-92).
Member of Ph.D. Commissions at the University of Sussex (UK), Grenoble (F), Toulouse (F), Neuchatel (CH), Autonomous University in Madrid and at the Ecole des Mines in Paris (F).
Member of the Editorial Board of the journals "Regional Studies" and "Entrepreneurship and Regional Development"; member of the Scientific Committee of the journals “Economia Marche", “Sviluppo locale” and “QA - Questione Agraria”.
Member of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria (General Confederation of Italian Industry) (2000-2002).
Member of the Scientific Committee of CERIS-CNR (National Research Council) (2002-2005).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Universitas” Programme launched by ILO and Unops.
Central Coordinator of the Interuniversities Project of continuous training on "Endogenous Skills Anticipating" within the framework of the ADAPT/European Social Fund Programme (with the participation of the Universities of Pavia, Grenoble, Barcelona, Porto, Autonomous University in Madrid and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation) carried out in 1996-98.
Italian coordinator of the Research Project on “SME policy and the regional dimension of innovation (SMEPOL)” within the framework of the TSER/CE DG XII Programme (1997-99).
Italian Coordinator of the Asia Link project "Curriculum development and human resource development for training municipal public servants on economic management in market-oriented economy of Vietnam" organised by the National Economics University (Hanoi), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and University of Insubria (2003-2005).
Has carried out researches for EC DG V, DG XII and DG XXIII. Research missions with World Bank, ILO and FAO.
Member of the "Experts Panel" for the OECD Conference on "Local Development and Structural Change" (Paris, may 1993).
“Key speaker” at the XII CIDEU Conference on “Gestion estrategica y Desarrollo Endogeno: Claves de la Gobernabilidad Urbana”, Rio de Janeiro, April 2004.
“Invited Speaker” to the Conference “Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Clusters and Industrial Districts from a Global Perspective”, Annual Assembly of the Asian Development Bank, Jeju (South Korea), May 2004.
Co-coordinator (with Allen J. Scott) of the workshop on “The Regional Question in Economic Development: Local-Global Interactions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” held at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation, August 30th – September 5th, 2005.

The main research interests focus on:

A) Economic development: theories and strategies. In particular, research has focused on endogenous development model and on the opportunities to launch strategies of economic development which allow both the valorisation of local resources and the sustainability & durability. The research will pay attention to the coordination of economic policies and interventions at the different levels of the State, mainly including the mesoeconomc dimension, which is crucial in making effective strategies and successful development policies. A comparative research has been organised, in cooperation with other Universities, on the regional development in some industrialising countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Morocco, Vietnam, Philippines, Romania), looking at the role of agglomeration economies and learning processes.

B) Innovation. Theory and strategies. Particular attention has been devoted to the local and regional innovative systems. The policy orientation of the research explains the interests in the opportunities of launching innovative strategies and coherent policies, especially in areas with small and medium sized firms.

C) Industrial districts: analysis of the transformation processes and of the role of collective actions and policy interventions. Particular attention has been devoted to the challenges of globalisation of production and to the risks of delocalisation and international decentralisation of production. Through an international network of research institutions, an international comparative analysis, both at the European level and the international one, will be carried out.

D) Local economic development: analysis of different patterns and construction of a typology of models of local development and organisation of production. Even in this case, an international comparison on the experiences and strategies of local development has been organised to foster the institutional learning and the diffusion of “best practices”. Also in this field of research the attention to the policy side is quite relevant, with particular emphasis on strategic planning.

Books
- Firm and territory (ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003 (IT)
- Regional Economics, Etas, Milano, 1992 (IT)
- Endogenous Development and Southern Europe (ed.), Avebury, Aldershot (UK), 1992
- Local Models of development, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1991 (IT)
- New firm formation: a comparative analysis at international level (ed.), Franco Angeli, Milano, 1994 (IT)
- Diffuse industrialisation in Lombardy, I.Re.R. - Franco Angeli, Milano, 1983 (2^ edition: Iuculano Editore, Pavia, 1995) (IT)
- Industrial restructuring and territory (ed.), Franco Angeli, Milano, 1978 (IT)
- Organisation of production and territory: local models of development (ed., with A. Vazquez Barquero), Iuculano Editore, Pavia, 1994
- Local Development in Europe (ed., with A. Vazquez Barquero), Economistas Libros, Madrid, 1995 (ES)
- Large Firms and Economic Development (ed., with J.P. Gilly and A. Vazquez Barquero), Editorial Sintesis, Madrid, 1997 (ES)

Articles and essays
- Economic Development, organisation of production and territory, Revue d’Economie Industrielle, n. 64, II term 1993
- New Firm Formation and Regional Development: the Italian case, Regional Studies, vol. 28, n. 4, July 1994
- The industrial district of Lecco: innovation and transformation processes, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 6, n. 4, 1994
- New firm formation and local development: the Italian experience, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 4, n. 2, 1992
- Industrial Districts: Structure and Transformation, Economic Notes, vol. 18, no. 1, 1989
- Regional inequalities and development in the Mezzogiorno, Economic Notes, vol. 16, no. 2, 1987, pp. 121-140
- Regional development and industrial restructuring: the Italian model in the 70s, Rassegna Economica, XLVII, no. 6, 1983, pp. 1263-1295 (IT)
- Areas of productive specialisation and small firms in Europe, Economia Marche, II, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3-45 (IT)
- The development of peripheral areas in the Italian economy during seventies, L’Industria – Rivista di Economia e Politica Industriale, no. 3, 1981, pp. 391-404 (IT)
- The Italian model of spatial development in the 1970s and 1980s, in G. Benko and M. Dunford (eds.), Industrial change and regional development, Belhaven Press, London and New York, 1991
- Local networks, innovation and policy in Italian industrial districts, in e. Bergman, G. Maier, F. Tödtling (eds.), Regions reconsidered, Mansell, London and New York, 1991
- The systems of small firms: a paradigmatic case of endogenous development, in G. Benko and A. Lipietz (eds.), Les régions qui gagnent, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1992 (FR)
- SMEs, innovation trajectories and policies: the cases of Lombardy and Apulia (ed.), SMEPOL Report no. 1, TSER Programme, EC-DG XII, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Università di Pavia, Juin 1999
- Industrial districts and globalisation: the French and Italian cases (with Claude Courlet), in Saillard Y. (ed.), Globalisation, spécificités et autonomie: approches économiques, Octarès Editions, Toulouse, 1999 (FR)
- Innovation Policies for SMEs in Europe: towards and Interactive Model? (with B. Musyck), Regional Studies, vol. 35. N. 9, December 2001
- R & D in industrial districts and systems of small firms, in A. Quadrio Curzio, M. Fortis, G.P. Galli (eds.), Rapporto sulla competitività dell’Italia: scienza, ricerca e innovazione, Edizioni Il SOLE 24 ORE, Milano, 2002 (IT)
- Industrial districts and competitiviness: international comparison and evolutionary scenarios, in L Paganetto e G. P. Galli (eds.), Rapporto sulla competitività dell’Italia: le imprese, Edizioni Il SOLE 24 ORE, Milano, 2002 (IT)
- Local Development in Europe: Theoretical Models and International Comparisons, European Urban and Regional Studies, vol. 9, n.3, pp. 225-239, 2002
- Small firms, innovation and territory: learning economies and local innovative system, in R. Camagni e R. Capello (eds.), Apprendimento collettivo e competitività territoriale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2002 (IT)
- Innovation policies for SMEs: an Overview of policy instruments (with B. Musyck), in B.T. Asheim, A. Isaksen, G. Nauwelaers, F. Tödtling (eds.), Regional Innovation Policy for Small-Medium Enterprises, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK) and Northampton (MA-USA), 2003