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The Uneasy Future of Italian RDAs
No full textThe paper focuses on the analysis of different models of (North) Italian RDAs in order to explore their contributions to regional development and to the competitiveness of the regional economic fabric.
Coming from some forty years of effectiveness, Italian RDAs are now facing different challenges mainly related to three major points: i) cost-effectiveness and evaluation issue; ii) evolution of the governance structure and stakeholders representativeness; iii) internationalisation of regional economies and RDAs ‘gateway role’.
A clear definition and a workable declination of their goals is still the starting point for any evaluation process, but it shouldn’t be considered so obvious. RDAs have to solve many different problems concerning budget constraints and reference stakeholders.
We try to distinguish a ‘low profile perspective’ – in which RDAs offers scanty services at ‘political prices’ with the indirect and silly outcome to crowd out market services, and a secondary unintended effect on SMFs which we call ‘switch on/off effect’ (when the stimulus stops the effect equally stalls) – from a ‘high profile perspective’ in which RDAs act as real developer actors within the regional arena. In industrialized and well developed areas (such as the four regions explored) one of the most relevant and profitable role for RDAs is to act as knowledge gateway, nurturing the local productive fabric with external generation of ideas, technologies and market solutions.
The paper aims at mixing fresh field evidences – gathered from four different case studies – with a theoretical reasoning founding the three main challenges RDAs have to cope with in their evolving path. We tentatively analyze one case in four different regions – two large ones (Lombardy and Emilia Romagna) and two small ones (Trento Province and Friuli Venezia Giulia) – ranging from general purpose RDAs to more specialized ones, distinguishing, in turn, ‘type 1’ (function oriented) from ‘type 2’ (territorial oriented). At a first exploration the case studies should be: CESTEC SpA (Lombardy); Development Agency of Trento (Trentino); AASTER (Emilia Romagna); and INFORMEST (Friuli Venezia Giulia).
At the end the paper will be able to suggest some policy attentions in order to make RDAs work in the future and to determine main conditions at which they can play a positive, strengthened role towards SMFs
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
Enhancing Communication inside Multi-Agent Systems - An Approach based on Alignment via Upper Ontologies
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Integrating Conceptual Density with WordNet Domain and CALD Glosses for Noum Sense Disambiguation
No full textVariations 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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