33 research outputs found
Mapping Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policies: A Comparison of Italian Region in the EUSAIR area
No full textThe European Union Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region is a macro-regional strategy aimed to promote economic and social prosperity and growth in the macro-region by improving its attractiveness, competitiveness, and connectivity.
The debate related to the territory’s growth, attractiveness, and competitiveness is still ongoing. The recent literature has revived the innovation and entrepreneurship topics as drivers of development. Scholars have embraced the concept of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, emphasizing the need to create the conditions for regional development to take place. To determine what policies can be activated to support an ecosystem's development, this study draws on the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature,
deepening the literature on top-down interventions. It also examines measures that favor and support regional development in line with the EUSAIR strategy.
Therefore, this study analyses entrepreneurship and innovation policies adopted by three Italian regions belonging to the macro-region, i.e., Lombardy, Molise, and Calabria. Specifically, this work aims to answer the following research question: “How do Italian regions approach the EUSAIR challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation policies?” We analyse and apply a Thematic Content Analysis on the Regional Operational Programmes that include the macro-region objectives.
The main results show three policy groups i.e., remedial and basic, reinforcing, and shooting policies. According to the regions’ development level and the policies implemented, this study linked the three policy groups to the entrepreneurial ecosystem stages, i.e., nascent, strengthening, and resilient ecosystems. We create a theoretical model that highlights this link between regions, policy directions, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem stages
Mapping Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policies: A Comparison of Italian Region in the EUSAIR area
No full textThe European Union Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region is a macro-regional strategy aimed to promote economic and social prosperity and growth in the macro-region by improving its attractiveness, competitiveness, and connectivity. The debate related to the territory’s growth, attractiveness, and competitiveness is still ongoing. The recent literature has revived the innovation and entrepreneurship topics as drivers of development. Scholars have embraced the concept of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, emphasizing the need to create the conditions for regional development to take place. To determine what policies can be activated to support an ecosystem's development, this study draws on the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature, deepening the literature on top-down interventions. It also examines measures that favor and support regional development in line with the EUSAIR strategy. Therefore, this study analyses entrepreneurship and innovation policies adopted by three Italian regions belonging to the macro-region, i.e., Lombardy, Molise, and Calabria. Specifically, this work aims to answer the following research question: “How do Italian regions approach the EUSAIR challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation policies?” We analyse and apply a Thematic Content Analysis on the Regional Operational Programmes that include the macro-region objectives. The main results show three policy groups i.e., remedial and basic, reinforcing, and shooting policies. According to the regions’ development level and the policies implemented, this study linked the three policy groups to the entrepreneurial ecosystem stages, i.e., nascent, strengthening, and resilient ecosystems. We create a theoretical model that highlights this link between regions, policy directions, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem stages
Addressing Sustainability in Innovation Ecosystems: the role of policies and institutions
No full textSustainability is one of the most debated topics of the 21 st century, especially regarding innovation. This study analyzes the role of policy-makers in two innovation ecosystems to study how they address sustainability objectives
at regional levels. We conduct a comparative case study analysis on two innovative regions, Stockholm (Sweden)
and Hovedstaden (Denmark), where sustainability goals are a priority in both countries’ policy strategies. The main results suggest that while the Stockholm region prioritizes the increase of competitiveness and attractiveness level of the region, Hovedstaden focuses mainly on SMEs’ growth and innovation output at the organizational level
Process over things (PoT). A model-based approach for the specification of IoT-aware business processes
No full textIoT-aware business processes are gaining momentum as part of a global effort to exploit the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the Business Process Management (BPM) area. The canonical lifecycle of a Business Process (BP) consists of several phases, from modeling and analysis down to implementation, monitoring and optimization. The availability of widely used standard notations for BP modeling, such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), enables business analysts to specify their BPs and then allow IT developers to get the corresponding implementations. Introducing IoT technologies from the BP specification and design phase proves to bring significant improvements in terms of BP analysis and implementation on the one hand and difficulties on the other hand, in order to deal with the complexity and heterogeneity of such technologies. This research project proposes an approach named Process over Things (PoT), which aims at overcoming such difficulties by using a standardized ontology to deal with IoT interaction at BP specification and design time. The proposed approach presents a BPMN extension to address the IoT ontology in the BPMN model explicitly, yet being independent of the specific ontology implementation. As part of the research project, the author has implemented a technology, denoted as PoT Broker, to fill the gap between the BP execution platform and the IoT devices access layer. The PoT Broker introduces a significant level of automation when implementing IoT-aware BPs using the specific IoT ontology. This thesis describes both the architecture of the proposed approach and its evaluation by use of a case study dealing with the application to a weather alert system
The financial channels of labor rigidities: evidence from Portugal
No full textHow do credit shocks affect labor market reallocation, firms’ exit and other real outcomes? How do labor-market rigidities impact their propagation? To answer these questions, we match administrative data on worker, firms, banks and credit relationships in Portugal, and conduct an event study of the interbank market freeze at the end of 2008. Our results highlight that the credit shock had significant effects on employment dynamics and firms’ survival. These findings are entirely driven by the interaction of the credit shock with labor market frictions, determined by rigidities in labor costs and exposure to working- capital financing, which we label “labor-as-leverage” and “labor-as-investment” financial channels. The credit shock explains about 29 percent of the employment loss among large Portuguese firms between 2008 and 2013, and contributes to productivity losses due to increased labor misallocation
Manifestazioni otologiche in paziente affetto da sindrome di Behçet: descrizione di un caso clinico
No full textManifestazioni otologiche in paziente affetto da Sindrome di Behcet: descrizione di un caso clinico.
M. Cavaliere, A.M. Di Lullo, T. Abate, M. Panetti, G. Sansone, G. Russo.
PREMESSA - La Sindrome di Behcet è un malattia cronica autoimmune multi-sistemica dei giovani maschi adulti (III decade) caratterizzata da una vasculite generalizzata verosimilmente su base genetica; la positività dell’antigene di Istocompatibilità HLA-B51 comporta un rischio 5 volte superiore di sviluppare tale malattia (1).
INTRODUZIONE - La malattia è recidivante e progressiva e può colpire piccoli e grandi vasi di quasi tutti gli organi(2). È comune il coinvolgimento di cute, occhi, articolazioni, grandi vasi, apparato gastro-intestinale, SNC e apparato genitale (3).Relativamente rari sono i sintomi dovuti al coinvolgimento del sistema cardiopolmonare, renale ed audiovestibolare (4). In letteratura l’incidenza della ipoacusia nella malattia di Behcet è compresa tra 12-80% ed è sempre di natura neurosensoriale (5).
METODOLOGIA - ML, uomo di 63 anni affetto da più di 10 anni da Sindrome di Behcet incompleta (6) (3 sintomi maggiori - ulcere orali ricorrenti, ulcere necrotiche genitali, lesioni cutanee) positivo per HLA-B51, lamenta da circa un anno fullness auricolare, acufeni ed ipoacusia all’orecchio destro; riferisce inoltre singolo episodio di vertigine oggettiva circa 3 anni fa.
RISULTATI - Otoscopia: membrane timpaniche integre bilateralmente con tasca di retrazione postero-superiore (IV stadio) a destra e centrale (I stadio) a sinistra. Rinoscopia: naso a sella con deviazione destro convessa del setto nasale e notevole riduzione della ventilazione nasale. Esame audiometrico: ipoacusia mista bilaterale PTA (500-1000-2000 Hz) =55 dB con ABG= 25 dB a destra e PTA = 45 dB con ABG=15 dB a sinistra. Esame vestibolare: ipofunzione del labirinto di sinistra. TC orecchio: tessuto ipodenso attorno la catena ossiculare a destra in assenza di segni di colesteatoma. Nella norma le strutture dell’orecchio medio di sinistra. Per risolvere la componente trasmissiva dell’ipoacusia ed arginare la possibile evoluzione della tasca di retrazione in colesteatoma il paziente è stato sottoposto ad applicazione di T-tube a destra con conseguente riduzione della riserva cocleare di circa 15 dB. Successivamente è stato sottoposto a periodici controlli che hanno rilevato a 2 mesi di distanza dall’intervento una completa chiusura dell’ABG.
CONCLUSIONI - E’ noto che l’ipoacusia neurosensoriale è comune nella Sindrome di Behcet (7,8,9). Nel nostro paziente al danno dell’orecchio interno si associa un deficit trasmissivo a causa di turbe delle correnti di ventilazione dell’orecchio medio attribuibili alla particolare conformazione a sella della piramide nasale (collasso della cartilagine settale per fenomeni vasculitici?) ovvero a disturbi immunitari dell’unità rinofaringotubarica per inibizione dell’attività delle NK-cells da interazione di un motivo peptidico (HLA-Bw4 trasportato da HLA-B51) con isoforme inibitorie dei KIRs-receptors (KIR3DL1)(10)
