Elodie Carpentier is a project officer at the Digital Economy Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Department for Economics and Data Analysis of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, on a joint fellowship with Invent Together (Washington DC, USA). She conducts research on the factors that encourage individuals from historically under-represented groups, such as academics and women, to participate in innovation activities. She also investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises’ digitalization may foster competitiveness and innovation within the economy.
Elodie received her PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux (France), where she also obtained a Master of Science in Risk Engineering for Economics and Finance. During her PhD, she visited the Scheller Jr. College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA) on a Fulbright scholarship, and the Department of Management, Strategy, and Innovation at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).