The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of … study is based on a newly constructed dataset, over the 1861-2009 period, composed of variables related to: innovation … by econometric assessment, the significant contribution of foreign technology both to innovation activity results and to …

The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of … study is based on a newly constructed dataset, over the 1861-2009 period, composed of variables related to: innovation … by econometric assessment, the significant contribution of foreign technology both to innovation activity results and to …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms� productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … enhances the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

innovation. Nevertheless, one aspect has been overlooked: the patent distribution across inventors is extremely skewed, as many …. This raises a number of questions relating to the geography of innovation: do different categories of inventors interact …

. Equity is a preferable source of external finance for innovation than debt. It does not require collateral, does not …

low by international standards and Italian firms take out only a small number of patents. External sources of innovation … different innovation sources increases the probability of collaboration; and that proximity is more important for small- and …

competitiveness. The innovation gap, by international standards, is one of those problems. Business incubators are one of the …

The paper describes the innovation strategies of a representative sample of Italian firms participating to the Bank of … able to influence the firms� decision of undertaking the innovation process. Even though R&D expenditure and innovation … extent with the firms� ability to introduce an innovation. Moreover, exporting firms have a higher propensity both to …