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Come una politica di alta formazione potrebbe contribuire a migliorare la condizione dei popoli del Mediterraneo?
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"La nascita di imprese a scala regionale: evidenze empiriche e indicazioni di policy"
No full textThis paper investigates regional variation in firms formation in Italy. The assessment has been carried out utilizing panel data that concerns all Italian regions in the period 1997-2002. The results suggest that financial subsides to investment are not useful to improve entrepreneurship level, especially if connected measures are too much to be specialized (as in the period considered). Instead, the policy interventions should be selective and specialized as well as focused on the steps of enterprises evolution. According to this point of view, the birth of firms is a demonstration of a generic form of entrepreneurship,
while the expertise of entrepreneurs is a demonstration connected
to the enlargement and the re-organization of business. This paper shows that increasing impact on entrepreneurship level is determined by policy involving whole society too, more than just firms. This is quite true regarding a regional context characterized by hard disparities
Lodz Voivodship and Apulia Region: A Comparative Assessment of R&D System in Two European Region
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The evolution of regional innovation policy in a peripheral area. The case of Apulia region
No full textThis chapter focuses on the evolution of regional innovation policies in the peripheral area of Apulia region in Italy. Despite the efforts of national and regional governments to improve its knowledge infrastructure, Apulia region’s research and innovation (R & I) system and policy are characterized by diverse strengths and weaknesses. The region shows structural constraints and has experienced sectoral crisis in traditional manufacturing that serves to impede its performance as an innovative region within the European context. A lower value of regional gross domestic product (GDP) and the relative fragmentation of research activities acts as barriers that slow the transformation of the regional system into a highly technological environment. Nevertheless, some areas of excellence such as the mechatronics and aerospace districts, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) district, and start-ups are creating new opportunities and linkages between firms and knowledge infrastructure, as well as expanding R & I activities, in attempts to increase the rate of skilled human capital employed in local firms
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
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