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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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ICT, Clusters and Regional Cohesion: A Summary of Theoretical and Empirical Research

Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Mattei, Fondazione Eni … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy...

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998 …

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Diversity in Entrepreneurship: Ethnic and Female Roles in Urban Economic Life

Levent, Tuzin Baycan; Masurel, Enno; Nijkamp, Peter - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

focus of the research is on the attitude and behaviour of Turkish female entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. The main fascinating … question is: Are ethnic female entrepreneurs special ethnic entrepreneurs or special female entrepreneurs? This paper provides … entrepreneurs in Amsterdam show that the “ethnic female profile” is a “special female profile” and that Turkish female entrepreneurs …

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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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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

This paper represents an empirical investigation of the “weak” and “strong” Porter Hypothesis (PH) focusing on the manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. By and large, the literature has analyzed the impact of environmental regulation on innovation and on...

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Multiproduct Multinationals and the Quality of Innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...

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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Technological Progress

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

International diffusion of energy-saving technologies has received considerable attention in recent energy and climate economics studies. As a helpful methodological complement to the existing large-scale CGE/IAM–based modelling for energy and climate policy studies, this paper contributes to...

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Notes on the Determinants of Innovation: A Multi-Perspective Analysis

Crespi, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change. Different theoretical approaches present in the...

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Induced Technological Change under Technology Competition

Gerlagh, Reyer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We develop a partial one-sector model with capital, natural resources, and labor as production factors, and endogenous technological change through research. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale. We compare the response of output and resource use to a change in resource prices with...

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