Science plays a fundamental role in society. Social studies of science have analyzed the nature of scientific research and the fruitful effects for innovation, employment and economic growth of nations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins, nature, evolution and structure of...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rivalry between basic and applied research within public research labs. Study design considers the international publications a proxy of basic research, whereas the self-financing deriving from technology transfer activities is an indicator of...

John Rae has recently been rediscovered as a precursor of the endogenous growth theory. This study argues that Rae needs to be rediscovered a second time for his original contribution to clarify the role of the innovation and technical change within the economic systems. The aim of this paper is...

The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how countries achieve and sustain technological and economic advantage. This study confronts the problem here by developing a theoretical framework based on the concept of purposeful system having a purpose of global...

This paper explores the scientific interaction of public research institutions across Italy and USA over 2000-2010 based on co-authored publications. Data are from Scopus (2012) and National Science Foundation (2012). The results show the trends of US-Italy scientific collaborations per...

This paper presents a simple model to measure the relative economic growth of economic systems. The model considers S-Shaped patterns of economic growth that, represented with a linear model, measure how an economic system grows in comparison with another one. In particular, this model...