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On the character of innovation and knowledge production function of the Italian biotech sector”
No full textReligion as a determinant of social capital and economic performance: An analysis of Italian data
No full textReligion is an individual and spiritual phenomenon, but it is not without collective, even economic implications. The effects of religion exert their impact on economy primarily through the link between individual religiosity and social capital, which encompasses both trust in others and a propensity for associations and volunteering. By nourishing social capital, religiosity therefore contributes to economic development and substitute for roles that the vast world of the third sector and the voluntary sector play in the declining welfare state. Through considering different levels of this relationship (individual, regional, and country level), this paper describes some implications for firm governance.
Using data from 2014 to 2022 from the National Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), this paper investigates the link between the degree of participation in religious life, on the one hand, and trust in others, active participation, or financial support for associations, on the other hand. The positive link between religious involvement and the aforementioned dimensions of social capital is confirmed, even when various areas of a country are considered, which are characterized by different levels of religious participation and social capital, as well as varying economic conditions, education, civil status, age, and gender
Is OECD classification of the biotech firms useful to explain different behaviours in research collaboration and publication? An analysis of the Italian case
No full textQuaderni di Ricerca IRAT/CNR, Enzo Albano Editore, Napol
New insights on the relationship between geographic and institutional distance in research collaboration: a long period analysis
No full textThis paper analyses the relationship between institutional distance and geographic distance in scientific collaborations, evaluating the possible changes when a long period (sixteen years: from 1990 to 2005) is taken into consideration. It also discusses the use of some alternative measurements of institutional distance. The main result, obtained by analysing the publications of the Italian biotech firms, is that international publications present a higher institutional distance than national papers, particularly in the early years, while there is no significant difference in institutional distance between regional and extra-regional papers, suggesting that opposite incentives are in action at different geographic scales and in different periods
"New insights on the relationship between geographic and institutional distance in research collaboration: a long period analysis". Working paper Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche Università di Salerno n.3.229
No full textThis paper analyses the relationship between institutional and geographic distance in scientific collaborations, evaluating the possible changes when a long period (sixteen years) is taken into consideration and discussing the use of some alternative measures of institutional distance. The main result, obtained by analysing the publications of the Italian biotech firms, is that international publications present an higher institutional distance than national papers, particularly in the early years, while there is no significant difference in institutional distance between regional and extra-regional papers, suggesting that opposite
incentives are in action at different geographic scales and in different periods
Internal and external sources of innovation in the Italian biotech sector
Full text linkA common view among many academics and policy makers is that biotech
offers enormous opportunities for improving competitiveness and
economic growth. For this reason there is a growing need to set up
appropriate policy to improve the adoption and diffusion of biotech
innovation. Nevertheless, there are many interpretative problems about the
identification of the biotech firms, due to the uncertainty about the border
of the sector itself. This paper provides a contribution to better define and
understand the biotech industry, pointing out the differences inside the
sector and the different behaviour of the firms according to their typology.
In fact this paper, basing on a previous work of classification of the Italian
biotech firms according to the OECD standards, uses such a classification
in order to better understand the different importance, inside the biotech
sector, of the internal and external sources of knowledge, in the production
of innovation. Our hypothesis is, in fact, that the relation between internal
and external source, on one side, and innovation, on the other side, has
different characteristics if we distinguish between the different classes in
which the production activities are divided, according to the OECD
classification. We try to test this hypothesis trough the analysis of the data
coming from a questionnaire we submitted to several Italian biotech firms
Do Different Firm Activities and Characteristics Generate Different Attitudes Toward Research Collaboration and Publication? An Analysis of the Italian Biotech Sector
No full textAn increasing attention is being devoted by many scholars to the phenomenon of the collaborations between university and other research institutions with industry. The new knowledge arising from such collaborations is often disclosed trough the scientific publications and the creation of new knowledge is rarely a solitary activity; knowledge creation and innovative activities usually take place within networks and come out from collaborations. Notwithstanding this increasing attention, some aspects of such collaborations remain probably not enough investigated. In particular there is need of a thorough analysis about the relationship between the activities and characteristics of the firms on one side and the frequency of the collaborations and the characteristics of the research networks on the other one. This paper tries to increase the knowledge in this direction, treating this issue with reference to the Italian biotech sector. A database identifies the existing Italian biotech firms at the end of 2005 and classify them according to the OECD criteria, which identify different typologies of firms according to the kind of activity mainly conducted. We crossed such data with data on publications (from ISI-Web of Science: number of publications; number, nature and localizations of co-authoring institutions) and data on firm size (from AIDA). Through an econometric analysis we try to verify if the different characteristics of the firms are related to different behaviour toward publication and collaboration. The results suggest that such relationships do exist: larger firms publish more and have larger networks of co-autorships. A more original result is that, even controlling for firm size, the belonging of a firm to an OECD typology has an effect on the number of publications done and on the number and quality of collaborations in publications activated by that firm. More precisely, consistently with their specific goals and attitudes, firms specifically devoted to R&D activity publish more than the other typologies of firms and targeted firms have more collaborators in their publications. These results have some consequences also in terms of policy: in fact the policies to adopt in relation to the collaboration in research and the dissemination of its results should be different according to the different typologies of firms. A complex and differentiated sector requires differently modulated policies
Il nuovo settore delle imprese biotecnologiche: ricerca per la costruzione di un Data Base generico per le analisi di settore e di un Repertorio per le policy
No full textAssessing statistical standards for emerging industries. Applying OECD statistical codes to Italian biotech population lists
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