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"Ricerca industriale di scienziati accademici: un’opportunità o un rischio per la “open science”? Un’analisi alla luce degli esiti di un questionario in tre università italiane". In "Università, nuova industria, sviluppo locale", a cura di Laura Ramaciotti. Collana Banca dell'Etruria
No full text"Disuguaglianze di retribuzione tra laureati: un'indagine statistica". Quaderno del Dipartimento di Economia Istituzioni Territorio-Università di Ferrara, n.11/2002
No full textIl presente lavoro indaga, in un campione di laureati, il tema delle disuguaglianze salariali, analizzandone le fonti, le caratteristiche e le possibili motivazioni della loro persistenza. A tale scopo si conduce un'indagine esplorativa sulle determinanti del reddito, si indaga sull'esistenza di differenziali salariali tra lauree diverse, sul differente effetto delle determinanti del reddito tra laureati in facoltà diverse e sulle motivazioni delle scelte in istruzione. Le indagini vengono
condotte mediante una pluralità di tecniche statistiche (osservazioni di statistica descrittiva, regressione lineare, logistica binaria, logistica multinomiale, alberi di classificazione con CART)
"Ricerca industriale di scienziati accademici: un’opportunità o un rischio per la “open science”? Evidenza empirica, considerazioni teoriche ed esiti di un questionario in tre università italiane", Quaderno del Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni, Territorio - Università di Ferrara, n.20/2005
No full textAn increasingly debated issue is if increasing patent activities and growing research collaboration with industry by university teachers may imply a negative effect on quality and
quantity of publications.
On a theoretical point of view it is possible to consider substitution and complementarity effects between industrially relevant research and publications.
Existing empirical analyses, estimating regression equations, seem to show a positive effects of
patents on publications. Nevertheless such kind of analysis lets only to verify the overall effect,
not to deeply analyse the existing relationship. To this purpose we conducted a survey in three
scientific sectors (chemistry, engineering, biology) and three universities (Bologna, Ferrara,
Trieste). This survey enquires the motivations, incentives and limits to collaboration between
university and industry and helps to identify and to distinguish complementarity and
substitution effects between “academic” and “industrial” research
La ricerca universitaria verso il mercato fra benefici per il trasferimento tecnologico e rischi per l’open science. Filoni di indagine empirica e prospettive teoriche per il dibattito
No full textIt is more than twenty years that university research has gone out of the traditional "ivory tower": research collaboration with industry and intellectual property rights on the results of research have become consistent and growing phenomena. A large debate resulted on the possible trade-off between the increased benefits for the direct transfer of knowledge from university to industry and the risks of reduction of quality and diffusion of university knowledge. The theoretical principles of alternative paradigms of public research should be taken into account and more empirical studies on the problem should be conducted and implemented in order to avoid that the debate becomes merely ideological. This paper makes a synthetic review of the more relevant fields of empirical research on these topics and signals some directions of theoretical research which are particularly interesting for the future
"Ricerca industriale e pubblicazioni dello scienziato accademico: complementi o sostituti? Un modello di scelta razionale. Problemi ed esempi di verifica empirica". Quaderno del Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni, Territorio dell’Università di Ferrara, n.14
No full textQuaderno del Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni, Territorio dell’Università di Ferrar
"La ricerca universitaria verso il mercato tra benefici per il trasferimento tecnologico e rischi per l'"open science": posizioni teoriche e filoni di indagine empirica". Working paper del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche dell'Università di Salerno, n.3.166
No full textDa oltre un ventennio la ricerca universitaria è decisamente uscita
dalla tradizionale “torre d’avorio” e le collaborazioni di ricerca con
l’industria e la tutela della proprietà intellettuale sui risultati della
ricerca sono diventati fenomeni consistenti ed in crescita. Ne è
derivato un ampio dibattito sul possibile trade-off tra incremento
dei benefici per la trasmissione diretta della conoscenza tra
accademia e industria e rischi per la qualità e il grado di diffusione
della conoscenza universitaria. Perché il dibattito non si riduca a
un mero confronto ideologico è necessario tenere presenti i
principi teorici di paradigmi alternativi della ricerca pubblica e
richiamare e implementare gli ambiti di studio empirico sul
problema. Questo articolo richiama appunto alcune posizioni del
dibattito teorico e fa una sintetica rassegna dei principali filoni di
ricerca empirica attinenti a questo dibattito
"Different frameworks for rationale, modalities and evaluation of public intervention in research and innovation: traditional and innovative aspects in the example of space agencies". Quaderno del Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni, Territorio - Università di Ferrara, n.3/2003
No full textNeoclassical paradigm, evolutionary theory and the theory of intangible assets are utilized to analyse
reasons, modalities and evaluation of public intervention in research and innovation, in general terms and in
the concrete field of space activities, with a particular focus on the Italian Space Agency
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
"Physical capital investment in human capital accumulation in the context of a model of growth à la Lucas". Quaderno del Dipartimento di Economia Istituzioni Territorio-Università di Ferrara, n.16/2004
No full textThis paper deals with endogenous growth and human capital accumulation. We present a review of previous studies, particularly stressing the distinction between rival and non-rival uses of human capital. Our own model in section 2 is based on Lucas 1988 model of human capital, and it modifies the way human capital is accumulated, by using a Cobb-Douglas production function, in which physical investments in education are added to the usual arguments considered by the literature. The framework is a dynamic intertemporal maximization in which agents can allocate time between working, leisure and accumulation of human capital. If the fraction of capital devoted to education is made function of time, we obtain three results. First: increasing investment in human capital has a double positive effect on growth, whereas taking away resources from education to physical capital has a double negative effect. Second: the elasticity of these increases depends crucially on the internal productivity of human capital, that is, how much human capital stock today is important for the production of human capital tomorrow; this is in line with those studies who denies the conditional convergence predicted by exogenous growth models. Third: in steady state, human capital can grow faster than physical capital in competitive equilibrium, if the magnitude of the external effect is offset by the effect caused by the increase of the investment in education (which in turn depends crucially on the elasticity)
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