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 dynamics of labor productivity (value added per worker, a synthetic measure of capital deepening, labor quality and … total factor productivity) and of employment. We find that the ongoing slowdown in EMEs is largely structural, but there is …-sector productivity improvements. The scope for further reform and reform priorities differs across countries. In the longer run other …

We study the relation between workers� skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm�s productivity is positively related to skill …

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 …

firm�s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …