Daniel Souza

Daniel Souza

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Turin

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin. My research interests lie broadly in economics of science and innovation, with a focus on scientific collaborations and the adoption of novel digital technologies. I am interested in understanding how individuals, universities and organizations interact to produce and diffuse knowledge.

Interests

  • Economics of Science & Innovation
  • Complexity and Networks

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2022

    University of Turin

  • MSc in Development Economics, 2017

    Federal University of Paraná

  • BSc in Economics, 2015

    Federal University of Minas Gerais

Publications

Magda Fontana, Martina Iori, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Daniel Souza
September 2022 Research Policy

The interdisciplinarity dilemma: public versus private interests

Funding agencies often reward researchers with an impact across different fields.Traditional evaluation mechanisms penalize researchers with small scientific impact. Interdisciplinarity is found to increase citing fields and decrease overall citations.Researchers hence receive contrasting incentives towards interdisciplinarity. Research policy has to overcome this public vs. private interest trade-off.
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Work in Progress

  • The making of a new technoscience: The contribution of CIFAR databases to the development of deep learning (with Aldo Geuna and Jeff Rodríguez)

  • Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity: understanding the role of tight networks (with Martina Iori, Magda Fontana and Valerio Leone Sciabolazza)

  • Economists on the Twittersphere (with Enrico Bergamini and Francesco De Petris)

  • Universities' unfinished (undesirable) transformation (with Aldo Geuna)

Teaching

Microeconomics

BSc Business Administration, University of Turin. Period: 2022.

Econometrics

Teaching Assistant (TA), BSc Economics, University of Turin. Period: 2022-present.

Microeconomics

Teaching Assistant (TA), BSc Business Administration, University of Turin. Period: 2019-present.

Macroeconomics

Teaching Assistant (TA), BSc Economics, University of Turin. Period: 2019-present.

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