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Technological coherence and the adaptive resilience of regional economies

Rocchetta, Silvia; Mina, Andrea - 2018

This paper explores the effect of different regional technological profiles on the resilience of regional economies to exogenous shocks. It presents an empirical examination of the determinants of resilience through panel analyses of UK NUTS III level data for the 2004-2012 period. The results...

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The pecking order of innovation finance

Mina, Andrea; Lahr, Henry - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between firms' innovation activities and the hierarchy of financing behaviours. We … analyse the role of innovation inputs (R&D), intermediate outputs (patents) and outcomes (product and process innovations) as … identify the effect of innovation, alongside the size of the firm, its age and its human capital, on the order of directly …

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Capabilities accumulation and development : what history tells the theory

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

In this contribution we offer a broad overview of the technological, institutional and policy dynamics associated with the great transformation - borrowing Karl Polanyi (1944) expression - leading from traditional, mostly rural, economies to economies driven by industrial activities (and...

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Competitive strategies, heterogeneous demand sources and firms' growth trajectories

Caravella, Serenella; Crespi, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; … - 2020

The present paper explores the demand-pull effect of distinct demand sources (i.e. households and retailers, other firms and public sector) on Italian companies' growth patterns. Data relies on the PEC (Indagine sulle Professioni e le Competenze) survey carried out by the Institute for Public...

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Technology, profits and wages

Coveri, Andrea; Pianta, Mario - 2019

, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …

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Industrial relations and firm-level innovation : a comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy

Anzoli, Guendalina; Benassi, Chiara; Cetrulo, Armanda - 2024

A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …

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Modeling industrial evolution in geographical space

Bottazzi, Giulio; Dosi, Giovanni; Fagiolo, Giorgio; … - 2007

In this paper we study a class of evolutionary models of industrial agglomeration with local positive feedbacks, which allow for a wide set of empirically-testable implications. Their roots rest in the Generalized Polya Urn framework. Here, however, we build on a birth-death process over a...

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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Grazzi, Marco - 2009

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...

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Repeated choices under dynamics externalities

Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - 2011

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...

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The footprint of evolutionary processes of learning and selection upon the statistical properties of industrial dynamics

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2015

Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...

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