Giulio BUCIUNI

Academic Appointments
2025 – Present — Scientific Coordinator, Executive Education Programme, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
2023 – Present — Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
2017 – 2023 — Director, MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
2016 – 2023 — Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
2011 – 2021 — Visiting Research Fellow, Global Value Chains Center, Duke University
2015 – 2016 — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
2013 – 2015 — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Management, Cà Foscari University of Venice
2012 – 2015 — Lecturer in Globalization & Competitiveness, Venice International University (VIU)

Education
2013 — Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Verona
Thesis: “Managing global value chains in the furniture industry. An international comparative study”
Advisors: Cecilia Rossignoli (University of Verona), Gary Gereffi (Duke University)
2009 — Master’s Degree in Economics and Management of Networks, Cà Foscari University of Venice (Summa Cum Laude)
2006 — Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Business Management, Cà Foscari University of Venice

Professional and Advisory Experience
2025 – Present — Advisor, European Commission
2022 – Present — Co-founder, Blue Chapter (education technology firm, India)
2015 – Present — Co-founder, Design On Site (trading firm in furniture and contract industry, Turkey and Italy)
2018 – 2020 — Scientific Coordinator, Research Centre of the Compagnia delle Opere, Milan, Italy
2007 – 2009 — Account Manager, Management inSites (international management and marketing consulting, Charlotte, NC, USA)

Selected Scientific Publications
2025 — Rizvi, S. A. A., Buciuni, G., & Ryan, P. Multinational enterprise spillover mechanisms in the genesis and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems, Small Business Economics, 1–20. ABS 3
2025 — Giblin, M., Rodriguez, C., Buciuni, G., & Ryan, P. Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’, Small Business Economics, 1–18. ABS 3
2024 — Buciuni, G. Innovatori Outsider. Nuovi modelli imprenditoriali per il capitalismo italiano. Il Mulino, Bologna
2023 — Buciuni, G., & Corò, G. Periferie competitive. Lo sviluppo dei territori nell'economia della conoscenza. Il Mulino, Bologna
2023 — Breznitz, D., Buciuni, G., & Murphree, M. Still sticky after all those years, Regional Studies, 1–15. ABS 4
2022 — Canello, J., Buciuni, G., & Gereffi, G. Reshoring by small firms, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 15, 237–259. ABS 3
2022 — Buciuni, G., Canello, J., & Gereffi, G. Microfoundations of global value chain research, Environment and Planning A, 54(6), 1086–1111. ABS 3
2022 — Ryan, P., Buciuni, G., Giblin, M., & Andersson, U. Global Value Chain Governance in the MNE, California Management Review, 64(2), 97–118. ABS 3
2021 — Cho, D., Ryan, P., & Buciuni, G. Evolutionary Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Small Business Economics, 58(4), 1865–1883. ABS 3
2021 — Buciuni, G., & Pisano, G. Variety of Innovation in Global Value Chains, Journal of World Business, 56(2). ABS 4
2020 — Andersson, U., Buciuni, G., Giblin, M., & Ryan, P. Subsidiary Upgrading and Global Value Chain Governance, Global Strategy Journal, 10(3), 496–519. ABS 4
2020 — Ryan, P., Giblin, M., Buciuni, G., & Kogler, D. The role of MNEs in the genesis and growth of a resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 33(1–2), 36–53. ABS 3
2018 — Buciuni, G., & Pisano, G. Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters, Journal of Economic Geography, 18(5), 1069–1089. ABS 4
2016 — Buciuni, G., & Finotto, V. Innovation in global value chains, Regional Studies, 50(12), 2010–2023. ABS 4
2015 — Breznitz, D., & Buciuni, G. Keeping up in an era of global specialization, in The Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness, Oxford University Press
2014 — Buciuni, G., Corò, G., & Micelli, S. Rethinking Manufacturing in Global Value Chains, Industrial and Corporate Change, 23(4), 967–996. ABS 3
2014 — Buciuni, G., & Mola, L. How do entrepreneurial firms establish cross-border relationships?, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 12(1), 67–84. ABS 2

Non-Academic Publications
2017 — Buciuni, G. The Furniture Industry in the Global Economy, in Local and Regional Programs for SME Internationalization, OECD

Awards
2023 — Best Paper Award (Highly Commended), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2021, 2022, 2023 — Teaching Excellence Award, Trinity Business School
2021 — Finalist, European Academy of International Business (EIBA), Best Paper in Global Strategy Journal
2020, 2021 — Research Excellence Award, Trinity Business School
2020 — Best Referee Award, Journal of Economic Geography
2013 — Finalist, Academy of Management, Best Paper in Applied International Management