Francisco Lima
Associate Professor
Instituto Superior Técnico
Francisco Lima is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and a research fellow at the Centre for Management Studies from IST. President of Statistics Portugal (INE, the national statistical authority) between 2018 and 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Habilitation degree from IST. Teaching and working with economics and econometrics, his research focuses on innovation, technological change, labor economics, entrepreneurship, and policy evaluation. He has coordinated and participated in several national and European research projects. Francisco has published in international journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Research Policy, Economic Journal, Small Business Economics, European Economic Review, and Labour Economics.
Keywords: Applied econometrics | Policy evaluation | Innovation
Publications
Network on European Communication and Transportation Activities Research (Nectar) Conference | 2007
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) | 2007
RENT XXI - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business | 2007
Research Groups
SEI - Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Projects
CHE - The Role of Human Capital in Entrepreneurial Success: A Reconceptualization
The proposed research aims to examine whether the extent to which technology regimes underlying university R&D match with technology regimes underlying the industrial structure in surrounding regions influences the effectiveness of technology transfer, and influences the creation, location choice and subsequent performance of knowledge-based start-up firms.