Grazia Sveva Ascione
Grazia Sveva Ascione

Assistant Professor

Polytechnic University of Turin

I’m an assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin. My research focuses on the economics of innovation, patents, and data science, with a strong emphasis on natural language processing, information retrieval, and the use of AI/LLMs in patent analytics and technology policy.

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Interests
  • Economics of Innovation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • Network Theory
  • Patent Analytics
Education

  • PhD in Economics of Innovation, 2022

    University of Turin

  • MSc in Economic Policy, 2018

    Université Paris Sorbonne

  • BSc in Economics and Management, 2015

    Università Commerciale L. Bocconi

Recent Publications
Grazia Sveva Ascione, Andrea Vezzulli, Valerio Sterzi (2025). Terrorizer: a novel algorithm for assignee name disambiguation. An application to US Patent Transactions (2005-2022). Scientometrics, - Forthcoming.
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Grazia Sveva Ascione, Laura Ciucci, Claudio Detotto, Valerio Sterzi (2024). University patent litigation in the United States: Do we have a problem?. Research Policy, 53(2).
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Grazia Sveva Ascione, Andrea Vezzulli, (2022). Leveraging NLP and web knowledge graphs to harmonize locations: A case study on US patent transactions. World Patent Information, 79.
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Work in Progress
Grazia Sveva Ascione, Nicolò Tamagnone, (2025). From scratch to silver: Creating trustworthy training data for patent-SDG classification using Large Language Models .
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Grazia Sveva Ascione, Valerio Sterzi, Catalina Martinez (2025). Propensity to request unitary effect for EPO granted patents.
Grazia Sveva Ascione, Laura Ciucci, Simone Vannuccini, Andrea Vezzulli (2025). The emerging role of NPE in the US market for AI patents (2005-2022).
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Contact

Please reach out in case you have any questions or want to talk about research.

Email

grazia.ascione [at] polito [dot] it

Address

Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
Polytechnic University of Turin
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129
Turin, Italy