Dr. Angela Garcia Calvo

Dr. Angela Garcia Calvo is Assistant Professor in International Business and Strategy at the University of Reading (UK). She received her PhD at the London School of Economics, and holds Masters Degrees from Harvard, Northwestern University and the Pontifical University Comillas. She obtained her BA at Deusto University. Garcia Calvo’s research explores the ways that business and policy choices shape the transformation of capitalisms. Specific interests include industrial upgrading, industrial policy, innovation, internet governance and the impact of structural transformation on work.  

In addition to her academic work, Garcia Calvo has consulted for the OECD and the governments of Germany, Spain and the UK.

Selected publications

Garcia Calvo, A. 2021“State-firm Coordination and Upgrading: Reaching the Efficiency Frontier in Skill-, Capital-, and Knowledge Intensive Industries in Spain and South Korea”. (Oxford University Press).

Garcia Calvo, A. 2024.“Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain”. Studies in Comparative International Development DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0

Garcia Calvo, A., Kenney, M. and Zysman, J. 2024. Will Nation States Reassert Their Sovereignty over the Platform Economy? SSRN DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4790191

Garcia Calvo, A, and Hancké, B. 2024. When can Industrial Policy Succeed? Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4195557

Garcia Calvo, A., Kenney, M. and Zysman, J. 2023 “Understanding Work in the Online Platform Economy: The Narrow, the Broad and the Systemic Perspectives”. Industrial and Corporate Change 32 (4): 795- 814.

Hancké, B. and Garcia Calvo, A. 2022. “Mr. Chips Goes to Brussels. On the Pros and cons of a Semiconductor Policy in the EU”  Global Policy https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13096.

Garcia Calvo, A. 2021. “State-firm Coordination and Upgrading in Spain's and Korea's ICT Industries”. New Political Economy 26 (1):119–137.

Garcia Calvo, A. and Coulter, S. 2020 “Crisis, What Crisis? Industrial Strategies and Path Dependencies in Four European Countries after the Crash”. Journal of Economic Policy Reform 25 (3): 191-210. 

Garcia Calvo, A. 2016. “Institutional Development and Bank Competitive Transformation in Late Industrializing Economies: The Spanish Case”. Business and Politics 18 (1): 27–62.