Francisco Lima
Associate Professor
Instituto Superior Técnico
Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, since 2003. President of Statistics Portugal (INE), 2018-2024. Ph.D. in Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2001). His research focuses on applied microeconometrics, labour economics, entrepreneurship, innovation, and policy evaluation. He has coordinated and participated in several national and European research projects and has published in international journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Research Policy, Economic Journal, Small Business Economics, European Economic Review, and Labour Economics.
Publications
SSRN | 2020
Academy of Management Proceedings | 2019
Research Policy | 2019
International Conference on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship | 2018
Research Groups
SEI - Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Projects
The Role of Human Capital in Entrepreneurial Success: A Reconceptualization
The proposed research aims to examine whether the extent to which technology regimes underlying university R&D match with technology regimes underlying the industrial structure in surrounding regions influences the effectiveness of technology transfer, and influences the creation, location choice and subsequent performance of knowledge-based start-up firms.