Tommaso's main research interests are currently:
* Economic development and structural change
* Economics of science and the analysis of the determinants of science trajectories
* Impact of innovation on employment and inequality
* The impact of violent conflict on economic activity
* Environmental impact of economic activities

He is currently involved in several research projects, among which (page updated at low frequency -- for more details please see links below, where available, or write me an email):
- Assessment of Science, Technology and Innovation Metrics in Africa (DFID)
- STRINGS: Steering Research and Innovation for the Global Goals (GCRF/ESRC)
- TRansit: Modelling transition risk -- developing an agent-based, stock-flow consistent, input-output macroeconomic framework (Rebuilding Macroeconomics/ESRC)
- Innovation Productivity and Wages in the GLA and the UK (GLA)
- Building Capacity in Collaborative Research on Complexity and Economic Development (British Academy)
- Promoting Relevant Science, Technology and Innovation in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda (DFID)
- COPE (ESRC): COnflict and Private Economic activity: an analysis of new harmonised household data from sub-Saharan Africa

He is still completing/revising outputs on the following projects for which funding has ended:
- Industrial Strategy Council: Sectors Insight Project (BEIS/ESRC)
- LODGE (JRF): the LOcal Distribution of productivity Gains: heterogeneous Effects
- TEMPIS (ESRC): Technical change, EMPloyment & Inequality. A Spatial analysis of households & plant data
- ISIGrowth (EC): Research for Innovation-fuelled, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth in Europe
- Pathways to Inclusive Development through Innovation, Technology and Structural Change (IDRC)
- The evolution of rice technology (ESRC and NSF). For more info on the MDET (Mapping the Dynamics of Emerging Technologies) projects see also Ismael Rafols's and Daniele Rotolo's webpage
- The relation between conflict and private economic activity (CEPR -- DFID),
- Micro to macro models of growth and structural change
- The relation between contract farming and technological change (EC -- DIME).


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Tommaso Ciarli is Senior Research Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex. His main research interests are in the area of technological change, institutional change, and economic development. He has lead and co-lead several funded projects on: modelling economic growth and structural change (EC, BA); mapping the relation between science, technology and innovation trajectories, development and societal challenges (GCRF, DFID, ESRC and NSF); estimating the impact of innovation on employment, and inequality (ESRC, JRF, GLA); studying the relation between inclusive innovation and structural change (IDRC); estimating the impact of violent conflict on economic activity (ESRC, CEPR and DFID); modelling the sustainable transition (Rebuilding Macroeconomics). He has served as advisor for government (e.g. BEIS) and international organisations (e.g. ECLAC, UNIDO, UNDP, IDB). He holds a PhD in Economics and in Industrial Development from the University of Birmingham and the University of Ferrara (Italy). He previously worked as a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Economics (2008-2011), as a Postdoc at the Manchester Metropolitan University (2007-2008) and at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (2006-2007) and teaching at the University of Bologna (2005-2007). Before the PhD Tommaso has worked for UNIDO and ECLAC (2000-2004).