According to the current European rules on Structural Funds, per-inhabitant GDP's of the EU regions are adjusted for the average price levels in the country (National PPP's = Purchasing Power Parities), rather than the specific price levels in each region (Regional PPP's). While confirming this...

The purpose of this work is to understand, by studying the American experience, which elements are crucial for the success of the industrial policy strategies implemented in response to contemporary issues. At this scope it is essential to re-explore in particular the American experience of the...

The paper tries to set a framework for the development of public procurement as a driver for technological innovation in the Italian context. It is argued that in the Italian experience public procurement is basically absent from the box of tools of industrial policy makers, in spite of the fact...

This paper critically reviews the possible analytical approaches to business support policies. Within the general framework of industrial policies, one may identify a set of policies specifically aiming at assisting enterprises or entrepreneurs to develop their businesses successfully and to...

The main objectives and measures of industrial policy in Catalonia are presented in this paper. Industrial policy in Catalonia experienced a substantial reorientation in 2004 with the change of regional government. Since that year, its aims have been to improve productivity and move towards a...

This paper discusses several studies carried out at Hermes and CERIS-CNR and aims at demonstrating that in many network utilities the firms' dimension is a constraint to guarantee an efficient service with qualitative standards. The analysis concerning electricity, gas, water and local public...

The article considers the necessity to accelerate the development of our country, that strictly depends on the evolution of productivity, and therefore of competitiveness. The competitiveness of a territory mainly relies on the incidence of the logistic cost functions over the gross domestic...

This article provides new evidence on the relevance and impact of public support to innovation activities in the case of two European countries: Italy and The Netherlands, given the opposite industrial structure of the two countries. The empirical analysis is based on firm-level data drawn from...

The article explores the main features of the middle-income trap in Malaysia within the evolving context of the Southeast Asian development pattern. In particular, it investigates the determinants of the Malaysian manufacturing declining performances after the Asian crisis (1997-1998), as well...