Dr Riccardo Crescenzi, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, has been awarded a prestigious 1.3 million Euro grant by the European Research Council for a five-year study of multinational enterprises (MNEs) .
The project will investigate the location strategies of MNEs and their territorial impacts, addressing fundamental knowledge gaps, shedding new light on the factors shaping the economic geography of MNEs, and providing policy-makers at all levels with new tools to promote innovation, employment and economic recovery after the current economic crisis.
Dr Crescenzi is also a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Research Affiliate with the Spatial Economics Research Centre at LSE. He has provided advice to, amongst others, the European Investment Bank, the European Parliament and the European Commission (DG Regional Policy).
10 December 2014