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ICT and Employment Growth in Italian Industries
No full text“Quaderni di Ricerca” working papers are published by Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (formerly DEA), since 1983 (peer-refereed). The series is abstracted and indexed in RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). It can be downloaded from http://www.dea.univpm.it/W
Is Europe becoming a knowledge-driven economy? Evidence from EU developed regions
No full textDipartimento di Economia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Quaderno di Ricerca no. 25
Assessing the Knowledge Economy: GDP, Productivity and Employment Growth in EU developed Regions
No full textAssessing the Knowledge Economy: GDP, Productivity and Employment Growth in EU developed Regions
No full textDeterminants of sustainable & responsible innovations: A firm-level analysis for Italy
Full text linkThis paper provides a micro-econometric analysis of the factors facilitating the introduction of Sustainable & Responsible Innovations by firms, with a focus on those aimed at improving occupational health and safety and reducing environmental impacts. Compared to the latter, the former objective of innovation has rarely been investigated with quantitative methods. By means of a bivariate probit model, we assess whether firms pursuing workers’ health and safety as innovation objective are also ascribing high importance to environment preservation. The evidence provided by using data for Italian firms highlights the key role of external knowledge and innovation sources and internal human resource practices for the achievement of Sustainable & Responsible innovative outcomes. Many similarities but also some differences between innovative firms emerge, according to whether they are committed to health and safety or environment protection
Public procurement for innovation: Firm-level evidence from Italy and Norway
No full textControlling for factors affecting the participation in the procurement market, this article attempts to identify the main determinants of firms’ propensity to undertake innovative activities as part of public procurement contracts. The empirical analysis is carried out by using micro-data from two Community Innovation Surveys for Italian and Norwegian firms. We find that small- and medium-sized firms, as opposed to larger companies, have a lower capability to enter into the procurement market; however, once they succeed, they are equally capable of offering innovative solutions to public buyers. Another major result regards firms’ cooperation with universities and public research institutes, which seems to play a key role in order to facilitate firms’ involvement in public procurement for innovation. Although there are some differences in the estimated coefficients of explanatory variables, these results are consistent between Italy and Norway
Knowledge capabilities and regional growth: An econometric analysis for European developed regions
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