Early career at the universities of Trento,Udine and Bologna
In 1980,he became a researcher at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento,and in the same year,the Minister of Budget Beniamino Andreatta nominated him National Planning Secretary for the restructuring of the automobile industry. In 1981,he became the supervising scientist for the Laboratory of Industrial Politics in Nomisma.
In 1982,he moved to the University of Bologna in the same role of university researcher,where he won the Associate Professorship in 1986. In 1987 along with Martin Carnoy (Stanford University) and Manuel Castells (University of California,Berkeley),he was invited to the Chinese Ministry of Education to analyse the relationship between the university system and economic development,paying particular attention to the evaluation of research activities and to the training of PhD students. In 1989,he was named as visiting professor of Political Economics at the University of Udine. In 1991,he returned to Bologna as visiting professor of Political Economics for the European community,with the mandate to launch the course of political science from the new seat of the University of Bologna at Forli. Furthermore,at the University of Bologna in 1994,he became a full professor of Economic Policy in the Department of Economic Sciences.
In 1992,he was named as director of the economic and industrial politics magazine L'industria (published by Il Mulino),a role that he would carry out until 2004. [3]
University of Ferrara:from the foundation of the Faculty of Economics to becoming Dean
In 1997,he entered into the governing body of the IRI - Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale with the objective of finalising its privatisation by the year 2000. [4] From 1999 to 2000 he was named President of Sviluppo Italia (today Invitalia) the national agency for the development of Southern Italy - created with the objective of valuing,rationalising and reuniting the previously operating 8 agencies of development. [5]
In 1997 he moved to the University of Ferrara where in 1998 he founded the Faculty of Economics - now knows as Department of Economy and Management,recognised as department of excellence at national level. [6] Here he fulfilled his role as Full Professor of Economy and Industrial Politics as well as becoming the faculty director in 2000. [7] Professor Bianchi was elected Dean of the university with a 3-year term in 2004 and reelected to the same post until 2010. From 2004 to 2007,he was part of the managerial committee of the Conference of Italian University Rectors. From 2006 to 2010,he was appointed as President of the Foundation of the Conference of Italian University Rectors and President of the Universitàtelematica internazionale "UniNettuno" of Rome (owned by the consortium of Italian universities "Nettuno"). [8] From 2003 to 2010,he acted as President of IMPAT - university consortium for the promotion of technology transfer and research spin-offs.
Since January 2020,he has been the UNESCO chairholder for Education,Growth and Equality at the University Of Ferrara. [9]
Over the years,he has carried out research and consultancy activities for major national,European and international institutions,in particular in the area of industrial policy and development policies,publishing over 200 articles and 40 books in Italian,English and Spanish.
