Staff Profile

I am Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and I joined Newcastle University Business School in February 2021. Previously, I worked at Alliance Manchester Business School. 

Currently, my research agenda is structured around the study of innovation and nascent entrepreneurship and looks at the contribution of universities to entrepreneurship and the role of contextual determinants in nurturing sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems. I use the lenses of graduate entrepreneurship as a vehicle to study nascent entrepreneurship, the organisational (HEIs) incentives to it and the impact of these on graduates’ endeavours. This involves reconsidering the range of channels that enable knowledge creation and exchange, such as: the variety of entrepreneurial outputs generated by universities; the contribution of teaching to skills formation, diffusion and local retention of graduates/graduate ventures; and the system of incentives in place at the organisational and national level (e.g.: metrics) that channel knowledge exchange practices. 

Membership 

• Regional Studies Association
• British Academy of Management
• HESA  (Higher Education Statistical Agency) - Gold researcher
• ONS (Office for National Statistics) - Secure data Lab approved researcher 

Research Interests

• Nascent entrepreneurship
• Graduate Start-ups
• Entrepreneurial ecosystem 
• Knowledge exchange & knowledge creation
• Innovation management 

Projects

• ACTIION: Accelerating Transitions in Industrial Innovation Networks: Open and Ecosystems Oriented Innovation (ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, 2018) 
• Interdisciplinary research: triggers and misaligned incentives in Higher Education Institutions  (UMRI, 2018)
• Old and New Metrics for Knowledge Exchange in Higher Education Institutions (Research England 2018)
• Industrial Innovation in Transition: innovation practices in entrepreneurial ecosystems (EU: H2020, 2016-2017)
• EUNIVATION: Measuring the contribution of Higher Education Institutions to innovation capacity (EU: DG Education. 2016)
• Interregional collaboration in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (JRC Seville: 2015)
• SMEs Performance Review - Annual Report. (EU: DG Grow, 2013-2017)

Conferences

• GEOINNO – Geography of Innovation Conference, Stavanger (Norway) January 2020.
• REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICIES (RIP) Conference, University of Florence, November 2019.
• TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SOCIETY Conference, University of Toronto, September 2019.
• BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, Birmingham, September 2019.
• GEOINNO – Geography of Innovation Conference, Barcelona (Spain) January 2018.
• TRIPLE HELIX CONFERENCE – Special Track organiser (Knowledge exchange frameworks in HEIs). Manchester (UK) September 2018
• TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SOCIETY. Valencia (Spain), October 2018.
• RSA Winter Conference. London (UK), November 2018
• RSA - Regional Studies Association Conference, Dublin (Ireland) June 2017.
• EU-SPRI Conference:  Special Track organiser (Entrepreneurial Ecosystems). Vienna (Austria) June 2017.
• SMARTER: Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development. Seville (Spain) September 2016
• ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY London (UK) August 2016
• EURKIND (European Network on Knowledge, Innovation and Development). Valencia (Spain) June 2016
• INCHER: Academic Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge and Technology Transfer. Kassel (Germany) April 2016.
• RSA – Regional Studies Association Conference, 24-27 May 2015, Piacenza, Italy
• DRUID – 15-17 June 2015, Rome, Italy
• BAM – British Academy of Management – 8-10 September, Portsmouth, UK
• ISS – International Schumpeter Society Conference, 27-30 July, Jena, Germany

Business Enterprise Policy (NBS8134)

MBA Entrepreneurship (NBS8497)

• Kitagawa F, Marzocchi C, Sánchez-Barrioluengo M, Uyarra E. Anchoring talent to regions: the role of universities in graduate retention through employment and entrepreneurship. Regional Studies 2022, 56(6), 1001-1004.
• Marzocchi C, Rizzo U, Ramaciotti L, Angori G. The content evolution of basic, mission-oriented, and applied research in European universities. In: Academy of Management. 2022, Seattle, Washington: Academy of Management.
• Marzocchi C, Sanchez-Barrioluengo M, Kitagawa F. Contextualising entrepreneurship capital provisions for graduate start-ups: The university and the regional context. In: British Academy of Management. 2019, Aston University, Birmingham, UK: British Academy of Management.
• Marzocchi C, Kitagawa F, Sanchez-Barrioluengo M. Evolving missions and university entrepreneurship: academic spin-offs and graduate start-ups in the entrepreneurial society. Journal of Technology Transfer 2019, 44, 167-188.
• Marzocchi C, Ramlogan R. Forsaking innovation: addressing failure and innovation behaviour variety. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 2019, 31(12), 1462-1473.
• Marzocchi C, Uyarra E, Flanagan K. Understanding Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems - A technical report for the research on Innovation & Global Competitiveness. Manchester, UK: Alliance Manchester Business School, 2019. Greater Manchester Independent Prosperity Review.
• Uyarra E, Marzocchi C, Sorvik J. How outward looking is smart specialisation? Rationales, drivers and barriers. European Planning Studies 2018, 26(12), 2344-2363.
• Amanatidou E, Gagliardi D, Marzocchi C, Benaim M, Cox D. Perceived impacts of P2P supported policies: Era-Learn 2020, Strengthening Joint Programming in Europe. EU Commission: H2020, 2018. EU Commission: H2020.
• Gagliardi D, Marzocchi C. Annual Report on European SMEs 2016/2017. University of Manchester: Manchester, 2017. SMEs Performance review.
• Georghiou L, Dale-Clough L, Marzocchi C, Cox D. Industrial Innovation in Transition: good practice guide. EU Commission: H2020: EU Commission: H2020, 2017.
• Benneworth P, Consoli D, Uyarra E, Marzocchi C, Sanchez-Barrioluengo M, Kitagawa F. Measuring the contribution of higher education to innovation capacity in the EU. DG Education (EU), 2017.
• Sorvik J, Mindtkandal I, Marzocchi C, Uyarra E. How Outward-looking is Smart Specialisation?. JRC Technical report 2016, 16.
• Gagliardi D, Marzocchi C, Ramlogan R, Cox D. Insolvencies and SMEs: the role of second chance. DG Grow (EU), 2016. SMEs Performance Review.
• Gagliardi D, Marzocchi C, Ramlogan R, Cox D, Muller P, Caliandro C. Annual Report of European SMEs 2014/15: SMEs start hiring again. DG Grow (EU), 2015. In Preparation.
• Gagliardi D, Marzocchi C, Ramlogan R, Cox D, Muller P, Caliandro C, Fritsch M. Annual Report on European SMEs 2012/13: A recovery at the horizon?. 2013.