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Upgrading of Symbolic and Synthetic Knowledge Bases: Analysis of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry and the Automotive Industry in China
Borg, Jan van der; Tuijl, Erwin van - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011
The degree and the way of upgrading differ widely per industry. This article tries to give some new insights in these differences by linking the concept of upgrading to that of the knowledge base. Moreover, we try to identify barriers to upgrading as well as the appropriate spatial scale on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395608
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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Carraro, Carlo; Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2007
The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106136
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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688304
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Technology Adoption, Job Matching Frictions and Business Creation
Colciago, Andrea; Etro, Federico - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2012
We study the impact of a General Purpose Technology that changes the cost structure turning fixed costs into variable ones in most sectors. A major recent example is cloud computing, whose adoption allows firms to avoid large up-front costs in IT and to rent computing capability online. We study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599720
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Skill-biased technological change and endogenous labor supply in EU Transition Economies and the US
Cazzavillan, Guido; Olszewski, Krzysztof - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2009
In this paper skill-biased technological change is linked with endogenous labor supply which allows for unemployment. This is a novel approach, as the literature on skill-biased technological change considers inelastic labor supply. Elastic labor supply allows us to explain how the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993622
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Producing abroad while making profits at home:Veneto footwear and clothing industry
Tattara, Giuseppe; Gianelle, Carlo - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2007
Over the last twenty years globalisation has brought about a sharp increase in the real and financial integration of the worldwide economy. In this closely knit context, the outsourcing of some of the productive and trade activities abroad has become one of the focal points of the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113396
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Estrategias de internacionalización productiva de la producción y los distritos del Véneto
Tattara, Giuseppe; Giusti, Giovanna De; Constantin, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008
Los procesos de deslocalización al extranjero de partes del proceso productivo en la industria del calzado están motivados por la búsqueda de la reducción del coste del trabajo. Las empresas del mueble se han internacionalizado para realizar un control sobre la adquisición de su materia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030068
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Vertical Specialisation and Regional Trade Integration. A Study on Italy and Northern African Countries
Corò, Giancarlo; Giansoldati, Marco; Volpe, Mario - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011
way, we supply a first result supporting the hypothesis of an international fragmentation of production. To offer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837642
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International Fragmentation and Agglomeration: From Theory to Empirics
Giansoldati, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010
This paper deals with fragmentation both theoretically and empirically. Not only it presents a picture of the existing … possible theoretical dichotomy between fragmentation and agglomeration, whilst supplying empirical evidence in support of their … coexistence. Moreover, the paper focuses on the linkages between fragmentation and trade, with an emphasis on vertical intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455646