Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving better environmental performances. Its role is even more relevant in local productions system, where innovation density, knowledge spillovers and externalities are concentrated in a circumscribed territory. The paper exploits new data for a...

This paper aims at analysing the impact of environmentally oriented innovative strategies on firms' economic performance in terms of employment, turnover and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms with 20 or more employees, based on 1993-1995...

The paper aims to provide an original contribution to evaluating several kinds of relations between four areas of innovation activities - training, technology, organization, ICT (information and communication technologies) - and industrial relations and firm's economic performance. Quantitative...