In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...

Analogous to the Richter Scale for earthquakes, you introduce the Scale of Technological Magnitude (SMAT in Italian), an event scale to quantify the size and impact of technology transfer in geo-economic environment and adopters. It is based on number of technological contacts and computed...

The purpose of this research is to analyse the spatial behaviour of technological transfer for understanding the inner dynamics. The data of some research labs, located in the Northwest Italy and operating in the technological fields, are used. The results have shown a superposition of behaviour...

The aim of this paper is to describe a general overview of the large number of theoretical and empirical studies that analyze the relationships between trade openness and environment. In Section 1, the paper presents a first description of the multidimensional links between a general definition...

Consumption of agricultural land through various forms of degradation, erosion, compaction, waterproofing, has an impact on the entire primary sector, with increasing costs. Thus, if the Italian surface is 30 million hectares, 17 is the total agricultural (SAT), but only 12 is actually...

Food demand appears to be steadily increasing, as a function of population growth and income. These levels of consumption, never seen in the past, project the world into unknown scenarios, soon called to test the validity of Malthus law and its consequences. While questioning the capacity of...

English Abstract: The article analyses the evolution of the fair industry in Italy since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008. In particular, the article examines the performance achieved by a sample of Italian exhibitions between 2008 and 2011 – at the apex of the financial crisis –...

Italian Abstract: "Play", "Game" e i Giocchi Pandemici10 anni fa, Franco Ferrarotti, quando scriveva il preface del primo numero di Academicus, definiva estremamente coraggioso la mia decisione di pubblicare la rivista in carta stampata, proprio nell’epoca delle comunicazioni digitali. Un...

Nel caso del turismo la qualità non rappresenta solamente un elemento costituente dell’offerta di prodotto o del sistema di produzione ma assume una forte valenza commerciale, permettendo di completare e rafforzare la strategia di marketing dell’impresa In the case of tourism, quality is...

Introduzione – 1. La valutazione delle performance e le scelte strategiche nel calcio-Players’ Management: selezione, talenti, retribuzioni – 2. Il progetto FCI – Conclusioni e fattori di sviluppo del progetto