A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...

This article reports the process of building a fuzzy set scale in order to value workers participation and their learning through a technical improvement project in metallurgical plants. The process starts with a practical question which stems from workers: "How can we value our own...

The purpose of this study is to explore if and how interfirm governance can foster the scaling up of hydrogen supply chains. We applied an interview study approach conducting semi-structured interviews with 13 experts from hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and utilization. This...

A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...

This article reports the process of building a fuzzy set scale in order to value workers participation and their learning through a technical improvement project in metallurgical plants. The process starts with a practical question which stems from workers: "How can we value our own...

In a globalising economy, territories and not just firms increasingly find themselves in competition with each other. In fact, differently from the case of countries, cities and regions compete, on the international market for goods and production factors, on the basis of an absolute advantage...

A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...

This paper deals with the last research decades about the concept of milieu innovateur as it has been created and utilized by a European research network, the GREMI, working on the territorial aspects of innovation and development. From the early typologies of territories innovation trajectoires...

We seek to shed new light on the social process of political opinion formation from an evolutionary perspective.We propose a model in which heterogeneous citizens collectively learn and modify their opinions about the most convenient size of public expenditure for the economy. In Section 1, we...