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Le rupicole e prime operazioni di reinforcing di popolazioni depresse in Liguria. Il caso di alcune specie endemiche rare
No full textSono qui riportate le prime esperienze di operazioni di reinforcing di popolazioni depresse di alcune specie endemiche rare in Liguria
Gli effetti sui sistemi locali di origine dei processi di integrazione produttiva internazionale nel comparto del "Made in Italy"
No full textNell'articolo si vuole sperimentare un metodo di analie di misurazione degli effetti dell'internazionalizzazione produttiva sui sistemi locali di origine, ponendo particolare attenzione agli effetti sui serviz
A taxonomy of European innovation clubs
Full text linkThe paper provides a novel, empirically grounded map of innovation ‘clubs’ in the EU, based on a unique analysis of micro-aggregated, country-level data. Using exploratory factor analysis we articulate innovation variables in a taxonomy of four ‘latent’ innovation theories: Network-Innovation-System, Kaldorian, New-Growth-Theory, and Schumpeterian. We then characterise clusters of countries (‘clubs’), based on their performance against this taxonomy, and design a new map of EU innovation clubs. We identify an articulated map of EU innovation hierarchy beyond the rather well-known ‘core-periphery’ structure, and interpret how some of the peripheries are functional to the ‘consolidated core’ of innovative countries, raising an issue of long-term sustainability of such hierarchies. We also find that even the most innovative clusters show concerning weaknesses. The strongest cluster in terms of its innovation system does not seem to exploit its full potential and lags behind with respect to radical product innovations. Instead, the leading cluster in terms of radical product innovations is strongly dependent on external innovative activity, is focused on scale-intensive sectors, and has a fairly weak innovation system. The periphery of small countries that show a healthy network structure, do so because they mainly include supplier-dominated firms, reliant on innovation inputs from the core. We offer some reflections on innovation policy within a broader view of EU cohesion
Innovation and economic performance in services. A firm level analysis
No full textThis paper explores the two-way relationship between innovation and economic performance in services using a longitudinal firm-level dataset which matches data from the second Community Innovation Survey, CIS II (1993–95), against a set of economic variables provided by the System of Enterprise Accounts (1993–98).The results presented show that innovation is positively affected by past economic performance and that innovation activities (especially investments in ICTs) have a positive impact on both growth and productivity. Furthermore, productivity and innovation act as a self-reinforcing mechanism, which further boosts economic performance. These findings provide empirical support for the endogenous nature of innovation in services and the presence in this sector of competition models
and selection mechanisms based on innovation
Varieties of European National Innovation Systems
Full text linkThis paper provides a novel, empirically grounded map of National Innovation Systems (NIS) in Europe, based on a unique micro level analysis across several EU countries. By focusing on the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey 2014 (CIS2014) micro-aggregated data, we perform an exploratory factor analysis to provide a micro-level grounding to the multi-faceted components of NIS. We relate the structure, innovation strategies and performance of the firm to relevant institutional characteristics of the NIS in which it is embedded, including the nature of public sector support (e.g. cooperation and procurement) and the characteristics of the public-private links (e.g. with universities, foreign institutions and/or other firms), amongst others. We then redesign the map of the European technology ‘clubs’ by means of a cluster analysis based on our factors/NIS dimensions. Our findings ground the di- agnostics of the European NIS, add to the most recent literature on NIS by taking into account the micro–level sources of the European NIS ‘clubs’, and complement the historical picture provided by Cirillo et al. (2016a)
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