Dario Guarascio is researcher in applied economics at the National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies (INAPP) in Rome. He is head of the research unit ‘Skills and labor market transitions’ and coordinates the project Industry 4.0-Future of Work. He has been research fellow at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and he obtained a PhD in Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. His research covers innovation economics, industrial dynamics, international trade, labour studies and applied econometrics. He participates as researcher within the Horizon 2020 project “ISIGrowth” aimed at developing diagnostics and policy-oriented analysis in support of an innovation-fueled, sustainable and inclusive growth agenda. He worked in a number of EU-funded projects on the relationship between innovation and economic performance in industries and firms. Dario Guarascio’s research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals like the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics and Intereconomics.