Christian Chacua

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About me


I am a Growth Lab Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development - Harvard University (USA).

My fields of interest cover economics of science, geography of innovation, science of science, high-skilled migration and knowledge diffusion.


Contact:
christian_chacua@hks.harvard.edu


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Research

  • Chacua, C., Freeman, R. (In Preparation). Migration and Changes in Research Interest: A Life Cycle Analysis.

  • Chacua, C. Freeman, R. B., Hausmann, R., Larivière, V., Sugimoto, C. R.(In Preparation). The Geographic Content of Research: Stylized facts on the places that get studied.

  • Chacua, C., Neffke, F. (In Preparation). The Changing Geography of American Academic Careers Throughout the 20th Century.

  • Chacua, C., Lissoni, F., Miguelez, E. (In Preparation). Ethnicity and collaboration in inventor networks.

  • Chacua, C., Miguelez, E. & Raffo, J. (In Preparation). Identifying Innovation World Clusters from Multidimensional Georeferenced Data.

  • Moscatelli, F., Chacua, C., Gadgin Matha, S., Hartog, M., Hernandez Rodriguez, E., Raffo, J.D., Yildirim, M.A. (2024). Can we map innovation capabilities? WIPO Economic Research Working Paper No. 81. World Intellectual Property Organization. (Working paper).

  • Hausmann, R., Yildirim, M.A., Chacua, C., Gadgin Matha, S., and Hartog, M. (2024). Global Trends in Innovation Patterns: A Complexity Approach. WIPO Economic Research Working Paper No. 80. World Intellectual Property Organization. (Working paper).

  • Hausmann, R., Yildirim, M.A., Chacua, C., Gadgin Matha, S., and Hartog, M. (2024). Innovation policies under economic complexity. WIPO Economic Research Working Paper No. 79. World Intellectual Property Organization. (Working paper).

  • Coda-Zabetta, M., Chacua, C., Lissoni, F., Miguelez, E., Yin, D., & Raffo, J. (2022). The missing link: international migration in global clusters of innovation. In D. Castellani, A. Perri, V. Scalera, & A. Zanfei (Ed.), Cross-border Innovation in a Changing World. Players, Places and Policies. Oxford University Press. (Preprint). (Book Chapter).

  • Miguelez, E., Raffo, J., Chacua, C., Coda-Zabetta, M., Yin, D., Lissoni, F., & Tarasconi, G. (2019). Tied In: The Global Network of Local Innovation. WIPO Economic Research Working Paper, No. 58. World Intellectual Property Organization. (Working paper).