Mercedes Delgado

Awards and Honors

• National Science Foundation, Science of Science and Innovation Policy Grant, 2018–2020, Mercedes Delgado and Fiona Murray, Co-Principal Investigators. Project: Mapping the Inventor Gender Gap: Analyzing Regional & Organization Variation in the Inclusivity of the Innovation Economy.
• Best Paper Nomination at the DRUID 2015 Conference, for “Clusters and the Great Recession” (with Michael E. Porter)
• Best Paper Award at the DRUID 2013 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, for “Spatial Organization of Firms and Location Choices through the Value Chain” (with Juan Alcacer).
• U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration Grant, 2011–2014 (Michael E. Porter, PI). Project website: U.S. Cluster Mapping Project: Mapping a Nation of Regional Clusters.
• University of Canterbury Grant, College of Business and Law, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2013. Project entitled: “Natural Disasters, Recovery, and Innovation: The Case of ICT at Christchurch” (Co-Principal Investigator with Pavel Castka).
• Research Fellowship, Kauffman Foundation and NBER’s Innovation Policy Group, 2006.
• Ph.D. Fellowship, Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid, Spain, 2003–2005.
• Fellowship, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 1999–2001.
• Erasmus Scholarship, European Union, 1998.