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Daniele Archibugi is Director of the Institute on Population and Social Policy (IRPPS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, Department of Management. He has graduated in Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” under the supervision of Federico Caffè and taken his PhD at the SPRU, University of Sussex where he has worked with Chris Freemanand Keith Pavitt. He has started his carrier at the Institute for studies on scientific research and documentation of the CNR directed by Paolo Bisogno. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Naples, Cambridge, Rome Sapienza, Rome LUISS, London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard. He has also held courses in Asian Universities such as the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto and the SWEFE University, Chengdu. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex and in June 2016 honorary member of the Research Network on Innovation. He is an adviser to the European Union, the Council of Europe, the OECD, several UN agencies and various national governments. He has led many research projects for the European Commission and other international organisations. For the European Commission, he has chaired the Expert Group on A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World, he has been a member of the Expert Group of the European Commission Global Europe 2030/2050 and he has coordinated the Report The Contribution of the European Commission to Responsible Research and Innovation. Together with Fabrizio Tuzi, he has coordinated the Report on Research and Innovation in Italy of the National Research Council in June 2018.