knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate … that increasing technology and knowledge through a “black box” process is related to an increase in productivity …. Furthermore, the protection and management of production knowledge and expertise is a valid method of increasing global technical …

An advanced economy relies on innovation activity for its further technology improvement. On the other hand a backward … economy depends on both imitation from the world technology frontier and innovation activities - innovation being more skilled … innovation-only regime to an imitation-innovation regime. I show that dependence on imitation activities rises and as a …

Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian … SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … magnitude of such impact being decreasing in firms’ size. Second, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the …

, instead of the assumption of markets imperfections, by introducing a methodological innovation which connects the presence of …