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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from European Manufacturing Sectors

Rubashkina, Yana; Galeotti, Marzio; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

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Robust Institutions for Sustainable Water Markets: A Survey of the Literature and the Way Forward

Maziotis, Alexandros; Calliari, Elisa; Mysiak, Jaroslav - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper discusses a framework for analyzing robust institutions for water markets drawn on the new institutional economics school of thoughts which is based on Williamson, North, Coase and Ostrom theories on transaction cost economics, property rights and collective actions. Based on these...

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Bioprospection: From the Economics of Contracts to Reflexive Governance

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...

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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China

Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...

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Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance: Evidence from European Regions

Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...

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Optimal Patentability Requirements with Fragmented Property Rights

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Halmenschlager, Christine - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

requirements should be stronger than in the case of stand-alone innovation. This reduces the fragmentation of intellectual property …

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Deviations in Kilometres Travelled: The Impact of Different Mobility Futures on Energy Use and Climate

Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...

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Solar Grid Parity Dynamics in Italy: A Real Option Approach

Biondi, Tommaso; Moretto, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Over the past three years Italy has witnessed a rapid growth in the photovoltaic energy market, followed by an equally sudden decline when the government decided to reduce the incentives. This sharp change in the trend of the market calls into question the achievement of Grid Parity and the...

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The Future Costs of Nuclear Power Using Multiple Expert Elicitations: Effects of RD&D and Elicitation Design

Anadon, Laura Diaz; Nemet, Gregory; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Characterizing the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on expert elicitation. Knowledge about how elicitation design factors impact the probabilistic estimates emerging from these studies is however scarce. We focus on nuclear power, a...

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