selling less opaque loans, using signaling devices (i.e. retaining a share of the equity tranche of the ABSs issued by the SPV …

The lag in innovation in Italy vis-�-vis the other main industrial countries is one of the effects of the … suitable than debt for financing innovation, is less common than in other countries. Public incentives for firms have had … modest results. To enhance the capacity for innovation some actions should be taken to help firms grow, adopt a more …

guidelines from the Lisbon Agenda, there has been an upturn in regional legislative activity concerning innovation, leading to a … in the southern regions account for nearly all the resources devoted to fostering innovation. This paper presents a … summary indicator, consisting of three "sub-indicators" approximating, respectively, the input of the innovation process …

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 …