Aldo Geuna

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

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Aldo Geuna is a prominent researcher specializing in the economics of innovation, technological change, and industrial transformation, with a particular focus on robotics adoption and the dynamics of Industry 4.0. His work bridges regional economics, industrial policy, and emerging manufacturing technologies, offering crucial insights into how advanced automation is reshaping economies across Europe and beyond. Geuna's most influential contribution, "Mapping the Evolution of the Robotics Industry" (2018, 23 citations), provides a comprehensive cross-country analysis of next-generation industrial robotics, combining publicly available data to illuminate the global state of robot deployment. This foundational work set the stage for his subsequent research examining whether robot adoption patterns are driven by regional or national forces — a distinction with significant implications for policymakers designing targeted industrial investment strategies. His 2020 study on industrial patterns and robot adoption in European regions broke new ground by rescaling international robotics data to the regional level, filling a critical gap in the literature that had largely overlooked subnational variation. Together, these contributions have established Geuna as a leading voice in understanding how advanced manufacturing technologies diffuse across heterogeneous economic geographies, informing both academic debate and practical policy decisions around Europe's industrial future.