Katiuscia Lavoratori
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Katiuscia Lavoratori is an emerging scholar whose research sits at the intersection of industrial economics, technological change, and international production networks. Her work focuses primarily on the economic implications of Industry 4.0 technologies — including advanced digital manufacturing tools and additive manufacturing — and their transformative effects on productivity growth and global value chain restructuring across European economies. Her most cited contribution, "The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption" (2023, 16 citations), applies a distance-to-frontier framework to examine how digital technologies shape total factor productivity growth across manufacturing sectors in 14 European countries, revealing that the benefits of technological adoption are distributed unevenly. Building on this, her 2025 study (10 citations) investigates whether Industry 4.0 is catalyzing a broader reshoring trend within Europe, exploring how these technologies reconfigure global sourcing geographies. Together, these works position Lavoratori as a thoughtful voice in debates about technological inequality, industrial competitiveness, and the future geography of manufacturing. Her empirical, policy-relevant approach makes her research particularly valuable for scholars and policymakers grappling with Europe's digital transformation and its uneven economic consequences.
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