UNIVERSITY OF ROME ITALY Laurea in Electronic Engineering, October 1983.

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1 GIOVANNI ABRAMO 15 August 1958 Via dell Edera, Roma - Italy tel: giovanni.abramo@uniroma2.it Education MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT USA Master 's degree in Management, February Concentrations in Corporate Strategy, Management of Technology and International Management. Thesis topic: Technology Transfer and Third World Development UNIVERSITY OF ROME ITALY Laurea in Electronic Engineering, October Experience on NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR) ITALY Senior Research Scientist, Technology Transfer Office (currently at the Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science, since 2011). Main fields of expertise: Research evaluation and technology transfer (public-to-private and North-to-South). Carries out studies on the evaluation of the socio-economic impact of public R&D and research productivity, aimed at formulating policy recommendations. Contributed to the definition of CNR technology transfer policy and practice at national and international levels, designing appropriate projects for Industry and managing their organization, implementation and follow-up. Assisted companies in the technology innovation process, consulting them at corporate and functional levels on the technical, economic, organizational and strategic implications of innovating. Represented the Italian Government at EEC Committees on innovation and technology transfer programs, to foster European firms competitiveness, especially small- and medium-sized. Leaves of absence: U.S. Graphite Inc., Saginaw, MI, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento S.Anna, Italy; University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy on RESEARCH VALUE (SPIN-OFF CNR) ROMA President, founder of a research-based company providing bibliometric research evaluation on UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA ITALY

2 Professor of Strategic Management ( ) and Management of Innovation ( ) in the Master s program in Management. Professor of Economics Applied to Engineering ( ) in the undergraduate program in Engineering. Member of the Faculty Committee for the doctoral program in management for engineers. Founder of the Laboratory for Studies on Research Evaluation and Technology Transfer Co-inventor of the Italian public research competences database, ORP. A decision support system for research evaluation and technology transfer UNIDO - ICS AUSTRIA Expert, development co-operation projects. Carried out sectorial analyses in the fields of "new materials" and "optical fibers", identified critical technology management factors, and lectured on them in Italy and South Korea to experts from the Far-East countries. Coordinator of a project for the formulation of a training package in Technology Transfer Management. Analyzed the technology infrastructure of Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Iran, Russia, Slovenia and Croatia; and gave customized training courses on technology transfer management to local managers in each relevant country U.S. GRAPHITE, INC. USA Vice President of Engineering, member of the executive staff, promoted after three months during CNR sponsored professional internship. For a graphite component manufacturer: designed a new electrical heating process for graphitization furnaces; identified the need for management of Marketing-Engineering- Manufacturing interfaces and assumed responsibility for this; and formulated and implemented the technology strategy of the company. Other Teaching Experiences (Management of Innovation) Boston University, Universities of Perugia, Sassari, Salerno, Polytechnic of Milan, Sissa, Luiss School of Management, Business School of Il Sole 24 Ore, Institute G. Tagliacarne, ICE, Stoà, Institute for the Cooperation of Universities, Tecnopolis, Istao, Basentech. Specific Experience in Research Evaluation on UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI ITALY Member of the University Evaluation Committee 2011 on EUROPEAN COMMISSION BELGIUM ERAWATCH National Contact Point, a program providing information on European, national and regional research systems, policies, and programmes in the EU and beyond on NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CNR) ITALY Member of the working group for the participation of the CNR in the second national research evaluation exercise (VQR) 2

3 2010 NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION SOUTH AFRICA Evaluator of research projects on research evaluation on UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA ITALY Member of the University Evaluation Committee on UNIVERSITY OF UDINE ITALY Member of the University Evaluation Committee on LAZIO ADMINISTRATIVE REGION ITALY Member of the Research Evaluation Committee. Formulates calls of research proposals, sets up the evaluation process, formulates the procedure to identify reviewers, formulates the projects evaluation criteria, coordinates and supervises the implementation. Scientific Director of a course for public managers on Evaluation and Monitoring of Research and Innovation UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA ITALY Technical expert for the Advisory Board on the Observatory of Research, responsible for setting up a research assessment system FILAS ITALY For the Lazio administrative region development agency was responsible of: A project on the Formulation of an ex-ante research projects evaluation model A project for Mapping research centers of excellence in Italy on EMILIA-ROMAGNA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION ITALY Evaluator of research and innovation project proposals FINMECCANICA S.P.A. ITALY For the top high-tech corporation in Italy, was in charge of the project: Assessment of the technology positioning of the single companies of the corporation ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE ITALY Responsible of the project for the Analysis of the public research institutions in Italy, in terms of research output and productivity. Mapping of the supply of public knowledge at the territorial level ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY ITALY Member of a project aimed at formulating a methodology for the assessment of the socioeconomic impact of research projects funded by the agency EUROPEAN UNION LUXEMBOURG/BELGIUM Expert/evaluator of research and technology transfer projects NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ITALY Member of control committees of research projects Scientific Activities in Research Evaluation (2007 on) 3

4 Referee for the following international journals: Research Policy; Journal of Technology Transfer, R&D Management, Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Asia Pacific Education Review. Member of the Scientific Committee, 17th International conference on science and technology indicators, Montreal 2012 Scientific Output on Research Evaluation (2007 on) 1. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Rosati F., Measuring institutional research productivity for the life sciences: the importance of accounting for the order of authors in the byline, in press Scientometrics. 2. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Viel F., Assessing the accuracy of the h and g indexes for measuring researchers productivity, in press Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 3. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Viel F., Selecting competent referees to assess research projects proposals: a study of referees registers. Research Evaluation. DOI: /reseval/rvs Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., National peer-review research assessment exercises for the hard sciences can be a complete waste of money: the Italian case. Scientometrics. DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Rosati F., The importance of accounting for the number of coauthors and their order when assessing research performance at the individual level in the life sciences. Journal of Informetrics, 7(1), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., The impact of non-productive and top scientists on overall university research performance. Journal of Informetrics, 7(1), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Cicero T., What is the appropriate length of the publication period over which to assess research performance? Scientometrics, 93(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Identifying interdisciplinarity through the disciplinary classification of co-authors of scientific publications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(11), DOI: /asi Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations? Journal of Informetrics, 6(4), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment. Journal of Informetrics, 6(4), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Ferretti M., Parmentola A., An individual-level assessment of the relationship between spin-off activities and research performance in universities. R&D Management, 42(3), DOI: /j x. 12. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Solazzi M., A bibliometric tool to assess the regional dimension of university-industry research collaborations. Scientometrics, 91(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., Revisiting size effects in higher education research productivity. Higher Education, 63(6), DOI: /s Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., A sensitivity analysis of researchers productivity rankings to citation window length. Journal of Informetrics, 6(2), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., The dispersion of research performance within and between universities as a potential indicator of the competitive intensity in higher education systems. Journal of Informetrics, 6(2), DOI: /j.joi

5 16. Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., A sensitivity analysis of research institutions productivity rankings to the time of citation observation. Journal of Informetrics, 6(2), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., Pugini F., Assessing the relative technology transfer performance of universities and public research laboratories: the case of Italy. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 11(1-2), Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., National research assessment exercises: a comparison of peer review and bibliometrics rankings. Scientometrics, 89(3), DOI: /s x 19. Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., Assessing the varying level of impact measurement accuracy as a function of the citation window length. Journal of Informetrics, 5(4), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., A field-standardized application of DEA to nationalscale research assessment of universities. Journal of Informetrics, 5(4), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Research productivity: are higher academic ranks more productive than lower ones? Scientometrics, 88(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Viel F., The field-standardized average impact of national research systems compared to world average: the case of Italy. Scientometrics, 88(2), DOI: /s x. 23. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., National research assessment exercises: the effects of changing the rules of the game during the game. Scientometrics, 88(1), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., University-industry research collaboration: a model to assess university capability. Higher Education, 62(2, DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Evaluating research: from informed peer review to bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 87(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., Cicero T., D Angelo C.A., The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems. Scientometrics, 87(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., A national-scale cross-time analysis of university research performance. Scientometrics, 87(2), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Solazzi M., The relationship between scientists research performance and the degree of internationalization of their research. Scientometrics, 86(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Solazzi M., The role of information asymmetry in the market for university-industry research collaboration. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 36(1), DOI: /s D Angelo C.A., Giuffrida C., Abramo G., A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in large-scale bibliometric databases. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(2), DOI: /asi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., National-scale research performance assessment at the individual level. Scientometrics, 86(2), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Solazzi M., Are researchers that collaborate more at the international level top performers? An investigation on the Italian university system. Journal of Informetrics, 5(1), DOI: /j.joi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Viel F., Peer review research assessment: a sensitivity analysis of performance rankings to the share of research product evaluated. Scientometrics, 85(3), DOI: /s

6 34. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Citations vs journal impact factor as proxy of quality: could the latter ever be preferable? Scientometrics, 84(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Solazzi M., National research assessment exercises: a measure of the distortion of performance rankings when labor input is treated as uniform. Scientometrics, 84(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Viel F., A robust benchmark for the h and g indexes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(6), DOI: /asi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Solazzi M., Assessing public-private research collaboration: is it possible to compare university performance? Scientometrics. 84(1), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Testing the trade-off between productivity and quality in research activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), DOI: /asi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., A decision support system for public research organizations participating in national research assessment exercises. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(10), DOI: /asi Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Caprasecca A., The contribution of star scientists to sex differences in research productivity. Scientometrics, 81(1), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Solazzi M., University-industry collaboration in Italy: a bibliometric examination. Technovation, 29(6-7), DOI: /j.technovation Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., The alignment of public research supply and industry demand for effective technology transfer: the case of Italy. Science and Public Policy, 36(1), DOI: / X Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Mapping excellence in national research systems: the case of Italy. Evaluation Review, 33(2, DOI: / X Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Caprasecca A., Allocative efficiency in public research funding: can bibliometrics help? Research Policy, 38(1), DOI: /j.respol Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Assessing technical and cost efficiency of research activities: a case study of the Italian university system. Research Evaluation, 18(1), DOI: / X Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Research collaboration and productivity: is there correlation? Higher Education, 57(2), DOI: /s z. 47. Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Caprasecca A., Gender differences in research productivity: a bibliometric analysis of the Italian academic system. Scientometrics, 79(3), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Assessment of sectoral aggregation distortion in research productivity measurements. Research Evaluation, 17(2), DOI: / X Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Pugini F., The measurement of italian universities research productivity by a non parametric-bibliometric methodology. Scientometrics, 76 n. 2), DOI: /s Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Measuring science: Irresistible temptations, easy shortcuts and dangerous consequences. Current Science, 93(6),