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L'innovazione tecnologica nei servizi e nell'industria manifatturiera in Italia
No full textThis paper provides fresh empirical evidence on technological innovation in the service sector, and highlights major similarities and differences with manufacturing. Technological innovation is quite a diffused and variegated phenomenon in market services. Service firms rely on a wide range of innovation sources. Investment, R&D and software are the major components of firms’ innovation expenditure. Both in services and manufacturing the most important objectives of firms’ innovation strategies consist of improving service/product quality, increasing market shares and reducing production costs. Major obstacles to innovation are of an economic nature – i.e. lack of finance and cost of innovation too high. Technological innovation is drawn mainly from in-house production departments as well as from outside suppliers, clients and customers. Finally, in the near future the importance of technology for firms’ performance is expected to increase in al service industries. Overall, service and manufacturing sectors show more similarities than differences with respect to the basic dimensions of innovation processes
Costi e benefici della valutazione della ricerca e della didattica
No full textA fronte dell’adozione generalizzata di istituzioni e strumenti divalutazione, è sorprendente che non si siano sviluppate parallelamente analisi sistematiche relative ai benefici ed ai costi della loro introduzione ed attuazione. Gli AA. offrono un contributo in questa direzione. Sullo sfondo, la consapevolezza che la ricerca e l’educazione superiore rappresentano sistemi sociali estremamente complessi, pieni di non linearità, che mal si prestano a misurazioni quantitative imposte all’accademia da un paradigma scientifico del tipo di quello dei mercati
Costi e benefici della valutazione della ricerca e della didattica
No full textA fronte dell’adozione generalizzata di istituzioni e strumenti divalutazione, è sorprendente che non si siano sviluppate parallelamente analisi sistematiche relative ai benefici ed ai costi della loro introduzione ed attuazione. Gli AA. offrono un contributo in questa direzione. Sullo sfondo, la consapevolezza che la ricerca e l’educazione superiore rappresentano sistemi sociali estremamente complessi, pieni di non linearità, che mal si prestano a misurazioni quantitative imposte all’accademia da un paradigma scientifico del tipo di quello dei mercati
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Conceptual and Methodological Problems in the Development of Science and Technology Indicators
No full textMeasuring Technological Innovation in Industry in European Union and Post-Socialist Countries
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Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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