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    Business incubators: effective infrastructures or waste of public money? Looking for a theoretical framework, guidelines and criteria.

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    There is a wide literature about business incubators (BIs), especially about successful cases in high tech and knowledge intensive industries. Despite that, there is neither a viable integrative theory of effective business incubation nor clear guidelines about the preconditions for establishing BIs and their management. Such theory and guidelines are urgently needed because there is increasing evidence in the literature that, despite many successful cases and public policies supporting business incubation, most of BIs are not successful at all and serious doubts have emerged about the general effectiveness of business incubation and the advisability of investing public money in it. Based on a systematic literature review of the poor and scattered theoretical knowledge of effective business incubation, general principles are proposed to decide when a BI should be established and what it should do to be effective. The research is limited to non-profit BIs whose main goal is regional economic development as they represent the overwhelming majority of operating BIs

    The internationalization process of Italian fashion firms: lookingfor an analytical generalization

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    This study aims to explore the process of internationalization in Italian fashion firms, focusing on the strategy-structure fit and the role of the founding team in providing such a fit. On the basis of a single case study of a leading fashion firm, it emerges that classic deterministic theories of strategy-structure fit in growing firms offer a poor guide. The strategy is entirely ‘emergent’ and inspired by the specific talents of the founding team. Evidence confirms the causal link between strategy and structure: company structure is network-based and evolves according to the emerging strategy. However, the development route does not follow any deterministic model: The Uppsala model of incremental and cognitive internationalization, especially in its revised and network-based form, appears to be a more appropriate reference, being characterized by creative dynamics that are constantly evolving, in line with the founders’ vision and strategy

    FFW – FastFootWear - Le radici nel futuro

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    PROGETTO INDUSTRIA 2015. DICHIARATO IDONEO DAL MINISTERO DELLO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO MA NON FINANZIATO

    MEPSIR:Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources

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    MEPSIR study conducted a measurement related to the European Directive 2003/98/EC of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information (PSI)

    TEcnologia e MAnagement per il calzaturiero “made in Italy” nei mercati emergenti

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    PROGETTO PRESENTATO MA NON FINANZIATO. CIRCOLARE 16 giugno 2010 , n. 2201,Applicazione, per il 2010, dell'accordo-quadro siglato il 12 dicembre 2007 tra il Ministero dello sviluppo economico, l'Istituto nazionale per il Commercio estero e la Conferenza dei rettori delle Universita' italiane. (10A07924
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