Luis Rubalcaba

Luis Rubalcaba is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Alcalá (Department of Economics and Business Administration).

He is also expert and advisor for international organizations such as the World Bank Group, where he was private sector development specialist for the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice (staff member based in Washington DC for about 3 years, 2013-2016). He has also been offering expert advice and policy reports for the OECD, the UN and the IDB.

Positions between 2010-2013 include Fulbright Schuman Scholar at Boston University, (US), distinguished professor at VTT-Tekes (Finland), honorary scholar at the University of Birmingham (UK). Previously, he has been policy officer for the European Commission in Luxembourg (Eurostat), and Brussels (DG Enterprise and Industry).

In developing economies, he has been working in countries such as Ecuador, Jordan, Uruguay, Kazakhstan, Jamaica and Dominican Republic.

He is author or co-author of more than 100 publications, mostly in international publishing houses and peer-reviewed journals. Works on competitiveness, services, innovation, networks, regional and urban development, international trade and competitiveness, and industrial policy.

He is Spanish, married, and has 4 kids, Gloria, Leticia, Luis
and Isabel. He speaks Spanish (mother tongue), English, French and Italian.

• Gallouj, F., Rubalcaba, L., and Windrum, P. (Eds) (2013) Public Private Innovation Networks in Services. Edward Elgar, Glos (UK) and Massachussets (US).
• Rubalcaba, L. (2007) The New Service Economy: Challenges and Policy implications for Europe. Edward Elgar, Glos (UK) and Massachussets (US).
• Rubalcaba, L. and Kox, H. (Eds) (2007) The Contribution of Business Services to European Economic Growth. Palgrave-MacMillan, London (UK) and New York (US).
• Cuadrado, J. R., Rubalcaba, L., and Bryson J. (Eds) (2002) Trading Services in the Global Economy. Edward Elgar Glos (UK) and Massachussets (US).
• Rubalcaba, L. (1999) Business Services in European Industry: Growth, Employment and Competitiveness. European Commission, Brussels.

Books in Spanish:

• Aboal, D., Crespi, G., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015): La innovación y la nueva economía de servicios en América Latina y el Caribe. Retos e implicaciones de política. CINVE – IDB.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2011) Crisis económica y construcción social. Encuentro, Madrid.
• Rubalcaba, L. and Kox, H. (Ed) (2010) Los servicios a empresas en el crecimiento económico europeo. Marcial Pons-Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2008) Los servicios en la economía europea: desafíos e implicaciones de política económica. Marcial Pons-Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2002). Competitividad y bienestar de la Economía Española. Encuentro, Madrid.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2001) La economía de los servicios a empresas en Europa. Pirámide, Madrid.

Book chapters:

• Rubalcaba, L. (2017) Competitiveness. In Richardson, D. et al. (Eds) The International Encyclopedia of Geography. People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0585
• Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Social innovations and relationships with service and system innovations. In Toivonen, M (ed) Service Innovation. Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems. Springer.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Competitiveness. In Richardson, D. et al. (Eds) The International Encyclopedia of Geography. People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell
• Rubalcaba, L. and Toivonen, M. (2015). Internationalisation of services: modes and the particular case of KIBS. In Peter Daniels and John Bryson (Eds) The Handbook of Service Business. Edward Elgar.
• Rubalcaba, L., Gallego, J., and Di Meglio G. (2013). Social Innovation and Private-Public Innovation Networks in Services. In Ruiz, C. & Parra, C. (Eds) New forms of organization in knowledge-based societies: Social innovation, non-profit organizations and Social Entrepreneurship. NY: Routledge
• Rubalcaba, L. (2011) The challenges for service innovation and service innovation policies. In Promoting Innovation in the Services Sector. Review of Experiences and Policies. The United Nations, UNECE, New York and Geneva, pp. 3-29.
• Rubalcaba, L., and Visintin, S. (2010) Crossing borders: exploring the relationships between different modes of international provision of services. In Business service, competitiveness and internationalization, Rubettino Editore, Roma, Italy.
• Maroto, A., and Rubalcaba, L. (2008) Structure, size and reform of the European public sector. In Entrepreneurship, creativity and management. Edited by Paul Windrum and Per Koch, Edward Elgar, pp 41-62.
• Rubalcaba, L. and Van Welsum, D. (2007), Globalisation and Global Sourcing in Business Services. In The Contribution of Business Services to European Economic Growth. Edited by Luis Rubalcaba and Henk Kox. Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 213-230.

2016

• Van der Have, R., and Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Social innovation: an emerging research field? Research Policy 45(9), 1923–1935
• Rubalcaba, L. (2016) Social innovation and its relationships with service and system innovations. In Toivonen, M (ed) Service Innovation. Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems. Springer. Pp 69-93.
• Windrum, P. Schartinger, D., Rubalcaba, L., Gallouj, F and Toivonen, M. (2016) The Co-Creation of MultiAgent Social Innovations: A Bridge Between Service and Social Innovation Research. European Journal of Innovation Management, 19 (2), 150-166
• Rubalcaba, L., Aboal, D.,  and Garda, P. (2016) Service innovation in developing economies: evidence from Latin-American and the Caribbean. Journal of Development Studies 52(5), 607-626
• Rubalcaba, L, Gago, D., Ariano, M, Tripathi, A. (2016) Services and innovation for the competitiveness of the Ecuadorian economy, Policy Research Working Paper 7767, The World Bank Group
• Rubalcaba, L. (2015) Service innovation for developing economies: Policy rationale and framework. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol 51 (3), 540-557.
• Aboal, D., Crespi, G., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015) La Innovación y la Nueva Economía de Servicios en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. IDB and CINVE.
• Lagunes, H., Rubalcaba, L. (2016) External sources for innovation in public organizations. The Services industries Journal. 35, 13, 710-727
• Maroto, A., Rubalcaba, L, Gallego, J. (2016) Publicly Funded R&D for Public Sector Performance and Efficiency: Evidence from Europe. R&D Management 46 (S2), 564-578.

2015

• Rubalcaba, L. (2015) Service innovation for developing economies: Policy rationale and framework. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 51(3), 540-557.
• Lagunes, H. and Rubalcaba, L. (2015) External sources for innovation in public organizations. The Services industries Journal, 35(13), 710-727.
• Di Meglio G, Stare M, Maroto A, Rubalcaba L (2015). Public services performance: an extended framework and empirical assessment across the enlarged EU. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33 (2), 321-341.
• Hipp, C., Gallego, J., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015) Shaping innovation in European knowledge-intensive business services. Service Business, 9(1), 41-55.
• Battisti, G., Gallego, J., Rubalcaba, L., and Wimdrum, P. (2015) Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalization. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 24(3), 223-247.
• Gallouj, F., Weber, M., Stare, M., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015) The futures of the service economy in Europe: a foresight analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 94, 80–96.
• Di Meglio, G., Pyka, A. and Rubalcaba, L. (2015), On the ‘How Many Europes’ Debate: Varieties of Service Economies. Journal of Economic and Social Geography (Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie), 106 (3): 307–320.
• Rubalcaba, L. and Toivonen, M. (2015). Internationalisation of services: modes and the particular case of KIBS. In Peter Daniels and John Bryson (Eds) The Handbook of Service Business. Edward Elgar.

          2007-2014:

• Gallego, J., Rubalcaba, L., and Suarez, C. (2013). Knowledge for Innovation in Europe: The Role of external knowledge on firms’ cooperation strategies. Journal of Business Research, 66(10), 2034.
• Hipp, C., Rubalcaba, L., and Gallego, J. (2013). Services and organisational innovation: The right mix for value creation. Management Decision, 51(6), 1117 – 1134.
• Gallego, J., Rubalcaba, L., and Hipp, C. (2013) Organisational innovation in small European firms: A multidimensional approach. International Small Business Journal, 31(5), 563-579.
• Rubalcaba, L., Gallego, J., Gallo, M.T., and Garrido, R., (2013). Business services location and market factors in major European cities. Cities, 31, 258–266.
• Rubalcaba, L., Michel, S., Sundbo, Brown, S. W., and Reynoso, J., (2012) Shaping, organizing, and rethinking service innovation: a multidimensional framework, Journal of Service Management, 23(5), 696 – 715.
• Rubalcaba, L., Gallego, J., and Den Hertog, P. (2010). The case of market and system failures in services innovation The Service Industries Journal, 30(4), 549-566.
• Rubalcaba, L., Gallego, J., and Gago, D. (2010) On the differences between goods and services innovation. Journal of Innovation Economics, 5, 17-40.
• Stare, M. and Rubalcaba, L. (2009). International Outsourcing of Services – What Role for Central and East European Countries?. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 45(5), 31-46.
• Rubalcaba, L. and Di Megio, G. (2009). Services in the EU competition policy. Journal of Service Science, 1(2), 121-146.
• Maroto, A. and Rubalcaba, L. (2008) Service Productivity Revisited. The Service Industries Journal, 28(3), 337-353. (Editor’s choice in the 17 best papers list along 30 years of the SIJ).
• Gago, D. and Rubalcaba, L. (2007) ICT and innovation in services: towards a multidimensional approach for impact assessment. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 17, 25-44.
• Gacía-Goñi, M., Maroto, A., and Rubalcaba, L. (2007) Workers’ motivation in European health services. Health Policy, 84(2-3), 344-358.
• Visintin, S., Maroto, A., Di Meglio, G., and Rubalcaba, L. (2010) The Role of Cost Related Factors in the Competitiveness of European Services. The Global Economy Journal (bepress), 10(3), 4.

• Rubalcaba, L. and Montes, O. (2015) Innovation and Investment Climate: South East lessons learnt for SICA countries. Growth Dialogue Institute, 45. Washington DC.
• Deschryvere, M. and Rubalcaba, L. (2014) Evidence on the role of user orientation for innovation and productivity in Finnish service firms. Asialics conference. Daegu, Korea.
• Rubalcaba, L., Gallouj, F., Windrum, P., and Toivonen, M. (2014) Service innovation and social innovation: An analytical framework and its application to health services. Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering Edited By Louis Freund and Wojciech Cellary. Proceedings of the 5th AHFE Conference 19-23 July 2014: 623-636.
• Van den Have, R. and Rubalcaba, L. (2013) The emergence of the social innovation research. RESER International conference, Aix en Provence, France. September.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2013) Innovation and the New Service Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB publications. Discussion paper IDC-DP-291.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2013) Analytical framework for service and social innovation in education and the role of communities. Working paper, Boston University (mimeo).

• Montes, O., Gallouj, F., and Rubalcaba, L. (2013) Social innovation in education: Theoretical framework and international evidence Working Paper. Presented in the Workshop on Social Innovation CLERSE/University of Lille1. Lille (France). December 2013.
• Rubalcaba, L., Windrum, P., Gallouj, F., Di Meglio, G., Pyka, A., Sundbo, J., and Webber, M. (2011) The contribution of public and private services to European growth and welfare, and the role of public private innovation networks. ServPPIN Final Report. ServPPIN Working Papers.
• Baker, P., Miles, I., Rubalcaba, L., Plaisier, N., Tamminen, S., and De Voldere, I. (2008) Study on industrial policy and services. Commissioned by the European Commission (DG Enterprise), ECORYS, Brussels/Rotterdam.
• Rubalcaba, L. (2008) Business services in the globalisation age: a European perspective. Reser working papers, Number 2.
• Kox, H. and Rubalcaba, L. (2007) Analysing the contribution of business services to European Economic Growth. Bruges European Economic Research Papers, Number 9.