The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

instrumental variables regression reveals that especially innovation and industry agglomeration foster employment growth in …

Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than … driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive services, are instead stagnating in Italy. Previous structural … an efficient innovation system or substantial R&D investments, were ignored. Going forward, governmental reforms should …

We study determinants of the probability of introducing an organizational innovation using three large cross sections …

By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this … paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation … performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing the link between human capital resources and innovation. The authors also …

the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …