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Contributors' CVs

Spyros Arvanitis is Senior Researcher at the KOF (Konjunkturforschungsstelle) Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, Switzerland. He is head of the Research Section Innovation Economics of the KOF. He holds a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Zurich and a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the ETH Zurich. Spyros has served as expert in national and international advisory bodies on the evaluation of technology policy. His research interests cover several fields of industrial economics, with a strong emphasis on empirical studies. He has published extensively on the economics of innovation, technology diffusion, determinants of firm performance, economics of market dynamics as well as the international competitiveness of firms and industries.

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Sergio Bertolucci, Physics degree cum laude (University of Pisa, Italy), serves as Director for Research and Computing at CERN. He chaired the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Committee and was a physics research committee member at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). He was vice-president and a member of the Board of the Italian INFN (Istituto Nucleare di Fisica Nucleare). A former Pisa scholar, Sergio has worked at DESY (Germany), Fermilab (US) and Frascati (Italy). He was a member of the group that founded the experiment CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab). He has been involved in the CDF detector design, construction and operation, ...