Daniele Archibugi is Full Professor at the Universistas Mercatorum in Rome. He was a director of the National Research Council (CNR), Rome, at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS), of which he was Director from July 2018 to June 2020. He is also Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck Business School.

He deals with the economics and politics of innovation and technological change, globalization, and the political theory of international relations. He graduated in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with Federico Caffè and obtained his PhD from SPRU, University of Sussex, working with Chris Freeman and Keith Pavitt.

He began working at CNR at the Institute for Studies on Scientific Research and Documentation directed by Paolo Bisogno. He has conducted research and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, Naples, Rome Sapienza, Rome LUISS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard. He has also taught courses at Asian universities such as Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and SWEFE University in Chengdu. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex and in 2016 honorary member of the Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation.

He is a consultant to the European Union, OECD, Council of Europe, various United Nations agencies, and national governments. He has directed numerous research projects for the European Commission and other international organizations. For the European Commission, he chaired the Expert Group on “A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World,” was a member of the Expert Group “Global Europe 2030/2050,” and coordinated the Report “The Contribution of the European Commission to Responsible Research and Innovation.” Together with Emanuela Reale and Fabrizio Tuzi, he coordinates the Report on Research and Innovation in Italy. Analysis and Data on Science and Technology Policy of the National Research Council.

At IRPPS-CNR, he is part of the research area on Globalization, Research and Innovation, which includes two distinct lines of research: “Global governance and cosmopolitan democracy” and “Globalization of science and technology innovation”.

He was coordinator of the Research Project of National Interest “Digital INNovation: an assessment of the relationship between DATA and other intangible assets and productivity” (INNODATA) together with Luiss University of Rome (Prof. Maria Savona) and the University of Urbino (Prof. Francesco Venturini).

He also participates in the PNRR Partnership (NextGenerationEU), “Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile – MICS.”

He participated in PRIN InnoGloba (June 2020 – December 2023). The Project studied the role of innovation and technological change in addressing major global economic and social challenges. In particular, it addressed the conditions for a new economic reconstruction in a global context characterized by increasing competition and environmental fragility.