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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230829
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642166
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SMEs in Argentina: Who are the Exporters
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Martincus, Christian Volpe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on developed countries and do not explore whether different behavioral patterns prevail over the firm size distribution. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502119
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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423204
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Firms’ International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence From Italy
Minerva, Alfredo; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
This paper revisits the empirical evidence about the link between firms’ performance and their international status, based on a large sample of Italian enterprises. To this purpose, we merged two waves of the Capitalia survey (1998-2000, and 2001-2003) retrieving firm level data for roughly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423274
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From Outsourcing to Productivity, Passing Through Training: Microeconometric Evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747057
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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002700
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904929
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904930
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Economic and Environmental Effectiveness of a Technology-based Climate Protocol
Carraro, Carlo; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently … innovation and diffusion than when they cooperate on emission abatement. However, technological cooperation – without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385383