Jacopo Canello

Jacopo Canello is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Parma. Previously, he held an Assistant Professor position at the University of Groningen. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Queensland. His research focuses on Economic Geography, Global Value Chains, and Productivity Analysis, with a particular emphasis on industrial districts, regional resilience, and firm-level decision-making in globalized contexts.

Research Highlights:

• ERC Consolidator Grant (2025) for SOS-GVC Project analyzing global value chain resilience
• Development of spatially constrained cluster-wise regression methods to map industrial districts
• Investigations into firm resilience in manufacturing and agro-food sectors
• Analysis of outsourcing/backshoring dynamics among small enterprises

Recent Work:

• Published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2025) on firm interconnectedness and resilience
• Contributions to Journal of Regional Science (2025) on industrial district mapping
• Key articles in Regional Studies (2022) and Environment and Planning A (2022) on global value chains and firm strategies

Labs/Teams: Active in TwinSEEDS (EU project on sustainable value chains) and GRIMLI (University of Parma research group).