This paper deals with the role played by the Laboratorio Tessile of Elda Cecchele in the production of fabric for fashion clothing and accessories in the 50s and 60s. The Laboratorio supplied many important Italian stylists, in particular Giuliana Camerino and Franca Polacco in Venice. The...

This research presents the scale of innovative intensity (SIIN) based on a meta-taxonomy that subsume other, less comprehensive taxonomy. The scale is used for a theoretical framework of measurement –technometrics- based on the economic impact of the technological change on the economic...

The purpose of this paper, after accurate description of the taxonomies of the innovation available in economic literature, is to evaluate technological change on the basis of the effects provoked by the innovative waves on consumers, firms and markets. Similarly to the Mercalli-Cancani- Sieberg...

Italian Abstract: Alla luce della sua teoria originale dell'oligopolio, l'autore discute della fusione proposta tra Montecatini e Edison, due importanti utility nel settore chimico.L'autore analizza i potenziali vantaggi pubblici e privati del nuovo conglomerato, discutendo le sinergie...

Relying mainly on the use of the "OECD Diagnostic Tool", we highlight the skill demand-supply imbalances existing across the Italian territory, as well as some of their determinants. Having clarified that the promotion of the matching between skill demand and supply is an essential element of...

Abstract (English) In recent years there have been major advances in our historical knowledge of regional disparities in Italy; as a consequence, the debate on the causes of the North-South divide (and thus, ultimately, on strategies and possibilities to overcome it) has also revived. By mainly...

[English] The essay outlines the main achievements in the estimation of the GDP of the Italian regions in the long term, and the resulting interpretation of the pattern of regional inequality. The latest estimates of regional GDP, for ten-year intervals from 1871 to 1951, at historical and...

Many economic impact assessments of major events overestimate the benefits of such events because they do not consider the substitution effects. In reality, a more careful evaluation should consider only the spending that is additional to the area of investigation. In this paper, we focus on a...

Questo contributo si concentra sui distretti produttivi in Sicilia che riguardano soprattutto l’industria alla luce dei primi tre anni dalla costituzione e riconoscimento di tali distretti da parte della Regione e la prevista scadenza dei relativi Patti di Sviluppo, valutandone il tema degli...

Questo contributo, dopo un excursus riguardante l’esperienza dei distretti produttivi siciliani nel primo periodo della loro esistenza dal 2007 al 2010 a seguito del riconoscimento da parte della Regione Siciliana, si sofferma sui “Patti di Sviluppo” dei distretti produttivi per il periodo...