The paper provides detailed evidence on technology transfer offices (TTOs) in Italian universities by analyzing a large and original university-level database built by Netval for the 2002-2010 period and providing updated empirical results on the three main channels of research valorization: (i)...

Italian university students often attend a university located in a nearby city, and choose between commuting from their home town and living in the city where the university is located. The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that influence this choice. A conceptual framework is...

L’Autore, nel ringraziare coloro che hanno contribuito al dibatto su "terra e lavoro" osserva come i temi trattati siano contigui a quello dell’immigrazione. Egli, inoltre, sottolinea l’importanza del ruolo delle Università, sia per l’elaborazione di un sistema di politiche che affronti...

Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and success, to suggest that fast growing firms could offer a major contribution to the recovery of a European economy. The contributors examine 11 case studies from Italian firms,...