Teaching and supervision

1Economics of Innovation and Technological Change

Technology Dynamics

TU Delft — MSc programmes (Complex Systems Engineering and Management; Engineering and Policy Analysis; Management of Technology). Innovation systems, responsible innovation, digitisation, and sectoral innovation patterns. Supervised group exercises on stakeholder analysis in the Dutch energy system, innovation scoreboards, and responsible research and innovation (RRI).

Disruptive Innovations I and II

UFRJ — Graduate Programme in Public Policy, Strategy and Development (PPED). Two-part course co-taught with João Carlos Ferraz and David Kupfer. Technological paradigms, disruptive innovation clusters, advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0, and implications for Brazilian industrial policy — grounded in the Indústria 2027 research project.

Economics of Innovation

ENAP — Continuing education for federal civil servants. 40-hour course covering Schumpeterian and evolutionary economics, technological revolutions (Carlota Perez), innovation in firms and sectors, national innovation systems, innovation measurement (OECD manuals, composite indices), and contemporary trends in advanced manufacturing. Assessed through participation and a reflective essay linking theory to professional practice.

Innovation Economics and Public Management

ANEEL — Executive training for energy regulators. 25-hour course (10 sessions). Innovation across economic schools of thought, the roles of the state in innovation, models of the innovation process, sectoral innovation patterns, innovation management and intellectual property, measurement and indicators, and STI policy instruments in Brazil. Included guided group discussions on the Brazilian innovation system, innovation dynamics in the electricity sector and the energy transition, and a role-playing game on promoting innovation through regulation.

Industrial Economics and Pharmaceutical Business Administration

UFRJ — Undergraduate (Faculty of Pharmacy). Structure-conduct-performance model, industrial organisation, Porter's competitive analysis, and business plan development for the pharmaceutical sector.

2Innovation Policy, Missions, and the Role of the State

Mission-Oriented Programme Design Methodology

FINEP / CGEE — Intensive workshop for FINEP technical staff. 16-hour intensive course delivered over three days. Conceptual framework of mission-oriented policies, a methodology for designing mission-oriented programmes adapted to FINEP's context, legitimation of societal challenges, diagnosis of state and technical-administrative capacities, the Haddon matrix for framing missions, and evaluation of productive and market dimensions. Participants applied the methodology to FINEP's own Inova Empresa programme throughout.

The State as Agent in the Development of Science, Technology and Innovation

ENAP — Professional development for federal civil servants. 30-hour course (10 classes). State functions, innovation systems, rationales for public intervention (market failures, systemic failures, the entrepreneurial state), techno-economic paradigms (Carlota Perez), the U.S. military-industrial complex as a hidden developmental state, mission-oriented policies, and the history of Brazilian STI policy from Embrapa and Embraer to the Inova Empresa programme. Assessment combined reading summaries, group work on mission-oriented policy cases, and a reflective essay connecting course content to participants' public service experience.

Public Policy Management

UFRJ — Graduate Programme in Public Policy, Strategy and Development (PPED). Seminar-based course covering public policy analysis, policy feedback mechanisms, the role of bureaucrats, public sector innovation, and the policy toolkit for innovation — drawing on Weber, Pierson, Mazzucato, and Reinert.

3Political Economy, Sustainability, and Socio-Technical Transitions

Political Economy of Climate Change

TU Delft — BSc programme. Co-taught. Schools of political economy and climate change, socio-technical transitions to sustainability (Multi-Level Perspective), international political economy of climate negotiations, emissions trading, and the geopolitics of the energy transition. Designed workshop activities including a role-playing game on incumbents in energy transitions.

Global Transformations Summer School

Centre for Global Challenges / Utrecht University. Deep transitions theory, socio-technical systems, sustainability, and historical transformations.

Managing Change — Seminar Exercise

University of Sussex — MSc programme. Industrial change, technology-forcing regulation, stakeholder dynamics, and sustainability transitions. Participatory exercise based on the case of air pollution and the American car industry.

4Institutional and Microeconomic Foundations

Institutional Economics for Designing in Socio-Technical Systems

TU Delft — MSc programme (Complex Systems Engineering and Management). Institutional economics, natural monopolies, property rights, network externalities, and market design. Alignment of technology and institutions in network industries such as electricity.

Microeconomic Theory I

UFRJ — Graduate (PPED). Consumer theory, general equilibrium, welfare economics, and a critique of the neoclassical framework.

5Research Methods

Research Methods in Economics

UFRJ — Undergraduate (Instituto de Economia). Co-taught with Marília Bassetti Marcato. Research question formulation, literature review techniques, methodology selection, and thesis pre-project development for final-year economics students.

6Supervision

6.1Doctoral Theses (co-supervised)

1. Adriana Cazelgrandi — UFRJ PPED (2018). Biocombustíveis e transição para sustentabilidade: o caso do etanol no Brasil.
2. Bruno Queiroz Cunha — UFRJ PPED (2018). Ensaios sobre regulação, ativismo estatal e desenvolvimento: o estado regulador brasileiro em perspectiva comparada.

6.2Master's Dissertations

1. Rafael Monteiro Sisnando — UFRJ PPED (2020). Avaliação de resultados e impactos de programas de apoio à projetos de inovação financiados com recursos do FNDCT.
2. Micaela Mezzadra — UFRJ PPED (2018). El diseño de las políticas de innovación en Argentina entre 2003 y 2012.
3. Alexandre Kiyoshi Ramos Tanaka — UFRJ PPED (2018). Análise da atuação da FINEP à luz da abordagem de sistemas de inovação.
4. Sandro Celso de Souza — UFRJ PPED (2017). Prêmios como instrumento de promoção a inovação nas empresas brasileiras.
5. Cristóvão Alves de Souza Gonçalves — UFRJ (co-supervised) (2017). Inovação no setor elétrico: uma análise com base em redes sociais.
6. Gyto Pugh — SPRU, University of Sussex (co-supervised) (2010). How has the financial crisis of 2008 affected General Motors' green innovation strategies?.

6.3Specialisation Essays

1. Carmen Silvia Sanches — ENAP (2019). Proposta de intervenção no programa de P&D regulado pela ANEEL.
2. Evandro Vasconcelos Holanda Junior — ENAP (2019). Inovação social: modelos e instrumentos para a inclusão social e produtiva da agricultura familiar.

6.4Undergraduate Monographs

1. Tiago José Bréfere — UFRJ (2020). Desdobramento estratégico em indústrias farmacêuticas.
2. Matheus Candido de Oliveira — UFRJ (2020). A importância do BNDES no desenvolvimento da infraestrutura no Brasil de 2008 a 2018.
3. Carolina Victor Vicente Ferreira — UFRJ (2020). Indústria 4.0: a transformação digital na cadeia produtiva da indústria mineradora.
4. Hugo Villas Boas Pitanga de Castro e Silva — UFRJ (2019). A teoria do mercado de dois lados aplicada no cenário brasileiro de pagamentos.
5. Pablo Andrade — UFRJ (2018). O programa Inovar-Auto: os resultados e as controvérsias do novo regime automotivo.
6. Maria Angeles Dominguez Moreno — Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2017). Estrategias del sector del taxi ante la aparición de nuevos competidores.

Also examined 3 doctoral theses, 9 master's dissertations, 4 doctoral qualifying exams, 5 master's qualifying exams, and 6 undergraduate monographs at UFRJ, TU Delft, TalTech, Unicamp, and UFF.