Pier Paolo Saviotti is a Visiting Research Fellow in Innovation studies at Copernicus Institute, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht. He is author of several publications about the economics of innovation, including Technological Evolution, Variety and the Economy (1996), which was awarded the 1997 Gunnar Myrdal Prize of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economics (EAEPE). He is a member of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economics (EAEPE), of the Lisbon Civic Forum and is Vice President of the International Schumpeter Society.
