Giancarlo CORO'

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 6676 / 041 234 9189
E-mail
corog@unive.it
Academic discipline
Applied Economics [ECON-04/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/corog (personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe
Office
Interdepartmental School of Economics, Languages and Entrepreneurship
Website: https://www.unive.it/sele
Office
Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem - Temporary Project Centre
Research Institute
Research Institute for International Studies

Office hours

1st semester 2025-26 a.y.
Office hours are every Friday at 12:15 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated), Campus Treviso, San Paolo Building Office A, or on Gmeet: meet.google.com/bsy-wjvo-xex 
Students must send an email to corog@unive.it to book their office hours appointment.

Teaching activity current year

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ETR30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

ECONOMIA E GOVERNANCE DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI PUBBLICHE [EMR11]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP [EMR12]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LTR6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Teaching activity previous years

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP [EMR12]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ETR30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LTR6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP [EM12]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

GEOPOLITICS AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS [A46]
Master di Secondo Livello (DM270)

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP [EM12]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP [EM12]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

COMMERCIO ESTERO E TURISMO [ET30]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES [LT6]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Economia applicata [ECON-04/A]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Nazionale
Known languages
Inglese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Economia e società regionale
Argomenti
Small Business
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Fondazione IRSO, Progetto Nord
Fondazione Nord Est, Osservatorio sull'economia del Nord Est
Uncem - Ministero Ambiente, Green Mounatin Project
Veneto Innovazione - Aree di Sviluppo Industriale
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Economia Linea: Settori industriali - politiche e gestione
Area: Economia Linea: Settori industriali - risorse e strumenti
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - politiche e gestione
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - risorse e strumenti
Analisi dei modelli e delle politiche di sviluppo economico regionale
Description:
Regional development patterns and policies
Keywords:
Applied economics, Small Medium enterprise studies, Economic systems
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
Aree di sviluppo industriale
SSD:
SECS-P/06
Economics and Geography of the New Manufacturing
SSD:
SECS-P/06
Green Mountain
SSD:
SECS-P/06
Innovation Clusters
SSD:
SECS-P/06
International fragmentation of production and spatial value absorbtion in global chain
SSD:
SECS-P/06
North Italy as Global region
SSD:
SECS-P/06
Coordinamento scientifico
Funding body:
Veneto Innovazione
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2013 Length in months: 12

Publication highlights

Sebastiano Cattaruzzo; Giancarlo Corò; Roshan Borsato Technological complexity and global capabilities in SMEs. A survey in an Italian industrial region in INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION, vol. n/d (ISSN 1469-8390)
2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113008


Sebastiano Cattaruzzo; Giancarlo Cor?; Giovanni Maran When Specialization Leads to Knowledge Expansion: Linking Industrial Districts to Economic Complexity across Italian Regions in SR SCIENZE REGIONALI, vol. n/d (ISSN 1720-3929)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113007


Luigi Capoani, Giancarlo Corò, Csaba Lakocai Dorsali metropolitane e periferie industriali: uno studio spaziale sui differenziali di competitività regionale nell’Unione Europea in ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE, vol. XLIII(1) 2025 - quadrimestrale di IRES VENETO (ISSN 2038-6745)
2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5097948


Barbieri, Elisa; Capoani, Luigi; Cattaruzzo, Sebastiano; Corò, Giancarlo Export diversification dimensions and performance: Analysis and industrial policy insights from Italian territories over Covid-19 shocks in SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES, vol. 94 (ISSN 0038-0121)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5059802


Giancarlo Corò Università come attore di sviluppo locale, cambiamento strutturale e riequilibrio territoriale in REGIONAL STUDIES AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT, vol. 5, pp. 17-36 (ISSN 2784-8361)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5086128


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Giancarlo Corò is Full Professor of Applied Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The main research topics concern the implications of the knowledge economy in the models of development and international trade, the study of Economic Complexity on a territorial basis, and innovation policies.

Teaching assignments:

- Development Economics and International Trade (Degree in International Trade Economics)

- Economics of Innovation and Development (Master Degree in Global Development and Entrepreneurship)

- Economics of Globalization (Degree in Philosophy, International Studies & Economics)

- Industrial Cluster Economics (Master Degree in Global Development & Entrepreneurship)

 

Other assignments:

- Scientific Director of Executive Program Export-Import Manager, Ca’ Foscari Challenge School

- Scientific Director of Active Learning Lab Export Manager, Ca’ Foscari University

- Scientific Committee, Master in Sustainable Local Development Manager, University of  Padua

- Scientific Committee, Observatory of International Politics, Ca' Foscary University

- Scientific Committee, l'industria - Review of Industrial Economics and Policy

- Steering Committee CMET05 - Applied Industrial Economics Group

 

Visiting Scholar:

- Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA (1988)

- Programa de Pòs-Graduaçào Desenvolvimento Regional, Universidade de Santa Cruz Do Sul, Brazil (2012)

- Centre on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (2014)

- Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin (2023)

 

Main Past Positions:

- Professor of Regional Political Economy at University of Urbino (1996-2002)

- Professor of Regional Economics at University of Trento (2002-2003)

- Professor of Urban Economics at Venice University Institute of Architecture (1998-2000)

- Director of Institute for Economic and Social Research – Venice (1993-2000)

- Member of the Steering committee of Veneto Region Competitiveness Forum (2003-2009)

- Member of the National Treasury Secretariat board for a reform of Industrial Districts policies (2005-2006)

- President of Regional Water Authority Bacchiglione (2008-2011)

- Director Master in Economics and Languages of Eastern Europe and Eurasia (2012-2017)

- Scientific Committee, Italian Trade Agency, Rome (2016-2019)

- Director of the School of Economics, Languages, Entrepreneurship, Ca’ Foscari University (2014-2020)