A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …

complementarities ; knowledge based economy ; labor law ; property rights …

This paper discusses, first, the properties of scientific and technological knowledge and the institutions supporting …

Innovation studies have largely recognized the role of knowledge in fostering innovation and growth of entrants …. Previous literature has focused on entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities and education and knowledge incorporated in … material and immaterial resources. We assume that new firms need to possess different pieces of knowledge, but beyond diversity …

knowledge embedded in the work itself, called ICP (Indagine Campionaria sulle Professioni), the latter being comparable to the U … locus of knowledge generation. It is also weak in terms of collaborative and worker involvement practices, and possibility …, and knowledge as the most relevant attributes characterizing the division of labour. …

levels of analysis of technologies, namely as (i) bodies of problem-solving knowledge, (ii) organizational procedures, and … those which concern knowledge and organizational procedures while in most respects the I/O representation is just an ex post …, derived, one. Next, we outline what we consider to be important advances in the understanding of productive knowledge and of …

This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of … firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path …, this study shows that the knowledge system of the laggard cluster is weak, highly disconnected and vulnerable, while in the …