
Francesco MuredduThe Lisbon Council · Policy Research
Francesco Mureddu
PhD in Economics
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Introduction
Activity: designing and delivering innovation initiatives, involved in several start ups as founder or advisor. Themes: digital transformation of public sector, digital policy, information society, innovation and technology policies, citizen and future science, health. Methodologies: strategic planning and recommendations, evaluation and impact assessment, counterfactual impact evaluation, technology roadmapping and scenario development.
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June 2017 - present
The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal
Position
- Managing Director
May 2014 - May 2017
February 2011 - present
Publications
Publications (36)
This study investigates the number and nature of e‐Government programs available in different types of educational institutes. An analysis of 57 programs provides evidence regarding the geographical distribution of the programs, the degree level of each program, the e-Government topics and courses, the aims and learning goals, the knowledge areas,...
The aim of this research is to understand what strategies, models and technologies can be deployed to transform the public administration into being more efficient, effective, fair and data-centric. To do that, the research team has carried out a set of 14 case studies in three analytical domains: the first is data strategies, policies and governan...
Living labs have gained increased attention in research and practice as both a practical and theoretical innovation phenomenon that emphasizes co-creation, real-life settings, and user/customer involvement. More recently, living labs have also emerged as a specific approach to open innovation processes in the context of publics across the EU. Never...
Living labs have gained increased attention in research and practice as both a practical and theoretical innovation phenomenon that emphasizes co-creation, real-life settings, and user/customer involvement. More recently, living labs have also emerged as a specific approach to open innovation processes in the context of publics across the EU. Never...
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Purpose
This paper aims to present pertinent research challenges in the field of (big) data-informed policy-making based on the research, undertaken within the course of the European Union-funded project Big Policy Canvas. Technological advancements, especially in the past decade, have revolutionised the way that both every day and complex activiti...
Prepared for the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership
Lisbon Council Discussion Paper
“Co-creation” and “design thinking” are trendy themes – the topic of innumerable conferences and a growing number of academic papers. But how do we turn co-creation into a reality for Europe’s 508 million citizens? In Co-Creation of Public Services: Why and How, a new policy brief, co-authors Francesco Mureddu and David Osimo propose a ten-step roa...
This paper introduces the Gov 3.0 project “Scientific foundations training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance”. The objective of the project is to establish a knowledge alliance targeting the research and training challenges in the field of ICT-enabled Governance. The project is strongly connected to the theme o...
This paper introduces the Gov 3.0 project "Scientific foundations training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance". The objective of the project is to establish a knowledge alliance targeting the research and training challenges in the field of ICT-enabled Governance. The project is strongly connected to the theme o...
Final Project Report. European Commission, DG CONNECT
Final Project Report. European Commission, DG RTD
Final Project Report. European Commission, DG CONNECT
The public sector gradually starts exploiting the crowdsourcing ideas initially developed in the private sector. However, there is much less knowledge on efficient and effective methods and practices for public sector citizen-sourcing in comparison with private sector crowd-sourcing, so extensive research is required in this area. This paper contri...
Technical Compendium. European Commission, DG RTD
In this article we use data from a multi-country Randomized Control Trial study on the effect of anti-tobacco pictorial warnings on an individual’s emotions and behavior. By exploiting the exogenous variations of images as an instrument, we are able to identify the effect of emotional responses. We use a range of outcome variables, from cognitive (...
The EU Community project seeks to promote, facilitate, and ultimately exploit the synergy of a cutting-edge intelligent collaboration platform with a community of institutional actors, stakeholders, scientists, consultants, media analysts and other individuals that can make valuable contributions to EU policy debates. Its ultimate goal is to effect...
According to NEG literature (Baldwin et al. (2004)), spatial concentration of industrial activities increases growth at the regional and aggregate level without generating regional growth differentials. This view is not supported by the data. We extend the canonical model with an additional sector pro- ducing non-tradable goods which benefits from...
The chapter provides an overview of the current debate and state of the art in the domain of big data aiming at assessing the current and potential use of information and communications technology (ICT) tools for collaborative governance and policy modelling for opening up government operations and enhance the ‘intelligence’ of the policy-making pr...
This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. Assuming a non-homothetic preference structure, our results show that a progressive reduction of trade costs allows the economy to pass from a pre-industrialized to an industrialized stage and then, within the latter, from a dispersed to an urbanized...
This note studies a market signal mechanism for assessing the short and long term tradeoff offered by the existence of natural resources in a tourism destination. We develop a theoretical model in which the destination price index is the tool for obtaining the sustainability of tourist areas. We assume that the stock of natural resources accumulate...
The aim of this paper is to present an outline for discussion upon a new Research Challenge on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. This research challenge has been developed in the scope of project CROSSOVER “Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy-Making” in the view of the definition of a new Research Roadmap on ICT Tools for Governanc...
In the last thirty years the role of the government has moved consistently away from services provision to regulation. Society and economy has become more interconnected, unstable and unpredictable than ever, and citizens are keener to engage in complex policy making. Within this context, traditional tools for policy making, based upon the perfectl...
We develop a New Economic Geography and Growth model which ,by using a CES utility function in the second-stage optimization problem, allows for expenditure shares in industrial goods to be endogenously determined. The implications of our generalization are quite relevant. In particular, we obtain the following novel results: (1) two additional non...
This paper analyze the dynamic economic performance of the Italian regions during the period 1970-2004. The measure of economic performance is given by the level and the growth rates of per capita GDP. Using the concept of economic regime, we introduce a notion of distance between the dynamical paths of the Italian regions. Afterwards, a Minimal Sp...
This paper compares the long run prediction of convergence clubs introduced by Quah (1996 and 1997) with the actual observed dynamics of the Italian regions during the period 1970-2004. Economic dynamics is described by the evolution per capita GDP and different notions of distance are introduced to compare the trajectories of the regions. In addit...
According to NEG literature (Baldwin et al. (2004)), spatial concentration of industrial activities increases growth at the regional and aggregate level without generating regional growth differentials. This view is not supported by the data. We extend the canonical model with an additional sector producing non-tradable goods which benefits from lo...
A well-established result in the New Economic Geography and Growth literature (Martin (1999), Baldwin et al. (2001) among others) is the ex- istence of a trade-obetween dynamic e¢ ciency (aggregate real growth) and static equity (regional income levels). More precisely, when knowl- edge spillovers are localized, aggregate growth is faster when econ...
The recent Nobel Prize assigned to Paul Krugman "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" witnesses the important role that the scienti
c community gives to the insights of the so-called New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. This field of economic analysis has always been particularly appealing to policy makers, give...
Projects
Projects (7)
Large Research Infrastructures in the field of frontier Physics have opened new observational windows to the universe and explore the structure of matter in extreme detail. These advancements require high levels of expertise and sophistication. On the other hand, society, lacking this level of expertise, merely observes these developments through outreach activities but does not actively contribute in the development of new scientific knowledge. This fact induces a gap between frontier science and society that can spawn misconceptions about the content, context and mission of public funded frontier science. The REINFORCE project comes to answer to the questions: a) Can citizens contribute in the development of new knowledge in frontier science? b) Can citizens apply this new knowledge to solve societal problems? c) How can we integrate citizen feedback? REINFORCE goes beyond outreach programmes and aims to minimize the gap between Society and Large Research Infrastructures in the field of Physics through the: i) development and implementation of 4 cutting-edge Citizen Science projects in the fields of Gravitational Waves, Neutrino Astronomy, Particle Physics and Cosmic Ray interplay with geoscience and archaeology with citizens: Citizens will analyze data and support the optimization of sensitive detectors in order to enhance their discovery potential. ii) implementation of a participatory design in citizen science: Communities of citizens will be developed, trained and empowered to contribute in the scientific mission of Large Research Infrastructures. iii) effective inclusion of sensitive citizen groups as well as the active interaction with secondary and tertiary education. iv) Aggregating best practices in a pan-European policy roadmap. REINFORCE aspires to engage more than 100,000 citizens across Europe and beyond, to help enhance society’s science literacy and awareness and to contribute in the production of scientific knowledge by citizens for society.
SALL proposes the living lab methodology as a new technique of unique value and possibilities for the development of open schooling activities linked to science learning. The project positions the technique of living labs as a new, powerful element of the impactful OSOS framework for open schooling, and demonstrates this through the use of the food system theme, due
to its strong links to science education, current challenges, as well as ambitious European policy making. SALL brings together school communities, including teachers, students and their families, research institutions, science museums and centres, spaces of informal learning and open innovation such as existing living labs, as well as policy makers, and engages them in intensive dialogue, mutual learning and exchange, so as to: a) co-construct the proposed living-lab-based open schooling methodology, by building on existing knowledge and best practices as well as on the power of synergy in the stakeholder community of contemporary science education; b) closely study living-lab-based open schooling practices and their impact, through implementation and evaluation in real-life conditions in school communities in different European countries; and c) prepare the ground for sustainable living-lab-based open schooling activities in Europe’s schools after the end of the project, through strong community-building, networking, dissemination, as well as policy-oriented interventions. In this way, SALL proposes a concrete new way for schools across Europe to approach their science education programmes, in order to make STEM teaching more relevant, systemic and inclusive for their students, collaborating with their local communities and research centres, and with the active support and involvement of science centres and museums in this process.
In recent years, the concept of cross-border services and data exchange has been an essential part of development in the EU where the services are provided using ICT in an interoperable environment. Since the data exchange is a long way journey, the EC has initiated the Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) as an important step to implement the digital revolution in Europe. SDGR brings various services under the same roof to set rules and guidelines on how to implement uniform public services in the member states. However, issues related to the digitisation of services, easy access to information and procedures and new challenges still need to be addressed in order to enable innovation and growth of EU single market. The operation of the SDG is a meaningful step forward in helping cross-border clients to solve many procedures and receive the necessary assistance; however, it should be facilitated by providing the user a guidance in an interactive, easy-to-follow and user-friendly way. Towards these challenges, ACROSS proposes a novel framework aiming to substantially complement SDG and Your Europe portal by leveraging the advanced capabilities of Cloud, privacy-preserving, semantic interoperability, and mobile technologies, to build the next generation Public-Services ecosystem while maintaining the highest privacy level. ACROSS aims to enable user-centric design and implementation of interoperable cross-border public digital services compliant with the current European regulations where the private sector can also interconnect their services while ensuring the data sovereignty of the citizens. ACROSS will be developed and tested in three countries at different points in their digital transformation journeys – Greece, Germany, Latvia – will address and analyse the technological, organisational, administrative, semantic and legal aspects, providing evidence for delivering more efficient cross-border mobility services to the citizens.