Dr. Isidoro Romero
Dr. Isidoro Romero
Dept. of Applied Economics. University of Seville (Spain)
Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences. Av. Ramón y Cajal, No. 1, E-41018, Sevilla (Spain)
4ª Floor. Room nº 1. Phone: 34-954554486; Fax: 34-95451636. E-mail: isidoro@us.es
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Welcome to my personal web page. I am an Associate Professor at the University of Seville (Spain). In addition, I give or have given in the past various courses and seminars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), University of Groningen (Netherlands), Complutense University of Madrid or the International University of Andalusia, among other institutions. I am a member of the European Union Regional Economic Applications Laboratory (REAL-EU), the European Union Network for Input-Output Studies (EUNIOS), the research group "SMEs and economic development" and the Bancaja Chair for Young Entrepreneurs at the University of Seville. On this page you can find further information about my academic and professional activities.
I have been developing my research activity as a member of the University of Seville research group “Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Regional Development”. Furthermore, I am a member of the European Union Network for Input Output Studies (EUNIOS) and the European Union Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (EU-REAL).
I have been a research visitor in the Organization and Management Research School (SOM) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) (2005) and in the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) (2007).
Specifically, my research interests include:
- The role of SMEs in economic development.
- Industrial clusters and local systems of enterprises.
- Production chains in an input-output framework.
- The role of SMEs in Global Value Chains (GVC).
- Entrepreneurship policy.
The following papers are some examples of my recent research (for an exhaustive list of my publications see SISIUS):
- Cáceres, F. R., Romero, I. and Liñán, F. (2008): “The Entrepreneurial Tissue of the Spanish Regions: the Case of Seville and Barcelona”. Entrepreneurial Tissue and Regional Economy. Poznan, Poland. The Poznan University of Economics Publishing House, pp. 228-246.
- Dietzenbacher, Erik and Romero, Isidoro (2007): “Production chains in an interregional framework: Identification by means of Average Propagations Lengths”. International Regional Science Review. Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 362-383.
- Romero, Isidoro and Santos, Francisco Javier (2007): “Firm Size and Regional Linkages. A Typology of Manufacturing Establishments in Southern Spain”. Regional Studies , Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 571-584.
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Romero Luna, I. and Santos Cumplido, F. Javier (2006): “Dimensión empresarial,
encadenamientos productivos y calidad del tejido empresarial. Un análisis de la
industria en Andalucía”.
Revista de Estudios Regionales,
No. 76, pp. 107-134.
- Romero Luna, Isidoro (2006): “Las PYME en la economía global. Hacia una estrategia de fomento empresarial”. Problemas del desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía, UNAM-IIEC, Vol. 37, No. 146, julio-septiembre, pp. 31-50, México. (download)
- Cáceres Carrasco, F. R. and Romero Luna, I. (2006): “Empresarios versus propietarios de pequeños negocios: una aproximación basada en el tamaño empresarial”. Estudios de Economía Aplicada, vol. 24-2, pp. 545-566.
- Romero Luna, I. and Fernández Serrano, J. (2005): “La política europea de fomento empresarial. Un análisis crítico”. Revista de Economía Mundial. No. 13, pp. 137-161. (download)
- Dietzenbacher, E., Romero, I. and Bosma, N. S. (2005): “Using Average Propagation Lengths to Identify Production Chains in the Andalusian Economy”. Estudios de Economía Aplicada. No. 23-2. Agoust, pp. 405-422.
Participation in Research Projects
The following projects are representative of my recent research (for an exhaustive list of my publications see SISIUS):
- "Cultural values and socio-economic factors as determinants for the entrepreneurial intention: Comparative analysis for
the Spanish regions"
Regional Government of Andalusia.
- “Endeavour: Entrepreneurial Development as a vehicle to promote European Higher Education”
Erasmus Mundus Programme. European Comission.
- "Self-employment in Andalusia".
Regional Government of Andalusia. Department of Employment. 25/05/2007 al 22/02/2008
- “The role of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the global tourism industry”.
OECD, Regional Government of Andalusia and Seville Bureau of Tourism. From 29/09/2005 to 01/04/2007.
- “The significance of entrepreneurship for economic growth”.
University of Seville and Poznan University of Economics (Poland).
- “Entrepreneurial activity and economic development in Seville province”.
Consejo Andaluz de Relaciones Laborales. Departament of Employment and Technological Development. Regional Government of Ansalusia. From June of 2002 to February of 2003.
Undergraduate courses in the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of Seville:
- "World Economy" in the 2nd year of the Law and Business Administration degree.
- “World Economy” in the 2nd year of the Business Administration degree.
- “International Economic Organization” in the 5th year of the Economics degree.
Diverse Post-graduate courses in the following programmes:
- Specialization course on “Entrepreneurship and Social Economy” at the University of Seville.
- Master in “International and Development Economics” at the Complutense University in Madrid.
- Master in “Social Economy and Local Development” at the University of Huelva.
- Master in “Business Administration: SMEs and Social Economy” at the International University of Andalusia in La Rabida (Huelva).
