Danilo Spinola has a postdoctoral research position at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT). Danilo holds a PhD on Economics of Inovation from UNU-MERIT, where he is also lecturing. He is part of the Rersearch teams on Innovation, Structural Change and Economic Complexity. Danilo has worked as a consultant for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and for the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He is currently the vice-president of the Latin American Network for the study of Learning Systems, Innovation and Skills Construction (LALICS). Spinola?s research includes Structural Change, Complexity Economics (Agent Based Models), Macroeconomic Theory, and issues related to Industrialization.