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Cooperation linkages and technological capabilities development across firms
No full textCooperation linkages and technological capabilities development across firms. Regional Studies. This study provides new insights into the role of cooperation in the process of technological capabilities development at the firm level. These are considered in relation to the way innovation is performed, whether by generation or adoption. In addressing this issue, the regional location of firms is taken into account, investigating evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer based on cooperation. Results confirm that differences across firms regarding technological capabilities and the role of cooperation cannot be fully appreciated when innovative firms are considered on the same footing, regardless of whether they have been able to develop the new technologies introduced.</p
Determinants of sustainable & responsible innovations: A firm-level analysis for Italy
Full text linkThis paper provides a micro-econometric analysis of the factors facilitating the introduction of Sustainable & Responsible Innovations by firms, with a focus on those aimed at improving occupational health and safety and reducing environmental impacts. Compared to the latter, the former objective of innovation has rarely been investigated with quantitative methods. By means of a bivariate probit model, we assess whether firms pursuing workers’ health and safety as innovation objective are also ascribing high importance to environment preservation. The evidence provided by using data for Italian firms highlights the key role of external knowledge and innovation sources and internal human resource practices for the achievement of Sustainable & Responsible innovative outcomes. Many similarities but also some differences between innovative firms emerge, according to whether they are committed to health and safety or environment protection
Public procurement for innovation: Firm-level evidence from Italy and Norway
No full textControlling for factors affecting the participation in the procurement market, this article attempts to identify the main determinants of firms’ propensity to undertake innovative activities as part of public procurement contracts. The empirical analysis is carried out by using micro-data from two Community Innovation Surveys for Italian and Norwegian firms. We find that small- and medium-sized firms, as opposed to larger companies, have a lower capability to enter into the procurement market; however, once they succeed, they are equally capable of offering innovative solutions to public buyers. Another major result regards firms’ cooperation with universities and public research institutes, which seems to play a key role in order to facilitate firms’ involvement in public procurement for innovation. Although there are some differences in the estimated coefficients of explanatory variables, these results are consistent between Italy and Norway
Il sistema economico dell'area metropolitana di Bari: struttura e specializzazioni territoriali
No full textIn the present work, after a brief review of the economic literature on industrial districts, clusters and other forms of territorial agglomeration of firms, an analysis of the distribution of firms and employees across the municipalities of the metropolitan area of Bari (the main province of the Apulia region in Southern Italy) is presented. This is based on ISTAT data (Industry and Services Census, 2001 and 2011) and aims at identifying the distinctive features of the economic structure at the local level as well as the main changes characterising the model of local development in the period between the two census surveys. All in all, main results highlight an overall consolidation of the processes of expansion of intangible activities and deindustrialisation of the economy, with an increase in the share of employees within the tertiary sector at the detriment of industry: trade and services turn out to be the most vibrant sectors of the economy, whereas manufacturing activities are experiencing increasing job losses, which points to a progressive shift of intangible activities from large vertically integrated manufacturing firms to other firms specialised in services. With respect to the 2001 figures, however, very few differences emerge concerning the productive specialisations of the municipalities in the different sectors, at least compared to the same trend at the regional level.In questo lavoro, dopo una breve rassegna della letteratura economica in tema di distretti industriali, clusters e altre forme di agglomerazione territoriale di imprese, si presenta un’analisi della distribuzione delle imprese e dei lavoratori occupati nei comuni dell’area metropolitana di Bari (la principale provincia della regione Puglia nel Sud-Italia). Basata sui dati ISTAT (Censimento dell’Industria e dei Servizi, 2001 e 2011), essa mira a identificare i caratteri distintivi della struttura economica e i principali cambiamenti intervenuti nel modello di sviluppo locale, nel periodo compreso tra i due rilevamenti censuari. Nel complesso, i principali risultati mettono in luce un generale consolidamento dei processi di ampliamento delle attività immateriali e di deindustrializzazione dell’economia locale, con un aumento del peso degli addetti nel settore terziario rispetto all’industria: il commercio e i servizi rappresentano i settori più vivaci, mentre si assiste a una progressiva perdita di posti di lavoro nel settore manifatturiero, segnale di un progressivo spostamento delle attività immateriali verso imprese specializzate nel comparto dei servizi. Dal confronto con i dati del 2001, si rileva comunque una generale tenuta delle specializzazioni produttive dei territori nei diversi settori, almeno rispetto al corrispondente andamento regionale
Il sistema manifatturiero in Puglia: una mappa della produzione e dell'occupazione a livello comunale
No full textL’analisi qui effettuata, sulla base di un insieme diversificato di informazioni statistiche, ha l'obiettivo di mettere in luce alcuni caratteri distintivi della struttura e della dinamica del sistema economico dell’area metropolitana di Bari tra 2001 e 2011
"Criticità, vincoli e politiche pubbliche"
No full textLo studio fornisce una prospettiva microeconomica sull’evoluzione del sistema industriale italiano negli anni delle crisi (2008-2020) e sulle eterogeneità che lo hanno contraddistinto. La ricerca è basata sulle rilevazioni effettuate periodicamente su circa 24 mila imprese italiane e rappresenta un unicum a livello nazionale ed europeo. Sono inoltre presenti riflessioni e proposte per rilanciare il sistema produttivo dopo la pandemia e in relazione al Recovery Plan
Local labour tasks and patenting in US commuting zones
No full textIn this article, we adopt a task approach to measure the local pool of capabilities which can more effectively spur innovation. By focusing on the core activities that workers undertake in their jobs, we build an abstract task intensity measure of occupations to proxy the ability in analysing and solving complex problems, as well as in coordinating and integrating people with different knowledge endowments, that should be especially relevant for the process of invention and innovation. We thus estimate the relationship between the local abstract intensity and the inventive performance, proxied by granted patents, of US Commuting Zones (CZs) during the period 2000-2015. The evidence provided, robust to a wide array of sensitivity checks, points to the extent of workers' engagement in abstract tasks across CZs as a crucial determinant of the local inventive activity
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