Andrea Bonaccorsi is Full Professor of Economics and Management at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa, Italy. His research interests lie in the fields of economics of science, technology, and innovation. He has published over 200 papers, including 89 articles in internationally refereed journals, with more than 14,000 GS citations. He is currently mentioned among the top 100,000 researchers in the world (top 2%) according to a study by Stanford University.
He has been a member of Knowledge for Growth and of RISE, the groups of experts supporting two European Commissioners for Research and Innovation. From 2011 to 2015, he was a member of the Board of the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Organizations.
In the last decade he has pioneered the creation of a European Register of Tertiary Education Institutions (ETER) for the use of microdata on universities.
He has been member of several expert groups at the European Commission (DG Research, DG Regio), including the AUBR group (Assessment of University-Based Research) and the group which supported the launch of the European Research Council.