Several empirical works have shown the robust and positive relation between growth and innovation at macroeconomic level and between firm economic performance and innovation at microeconomic level. However, the economists have had less opportunities to study such linkages during severe global...

Partendo dalla base di studi microeconomici sul comportamento delle imprese in termini di attività innovativa, il presente lavoro offre un’analisi empirica per un sistema produttivo locale (Ferrara) volta ad evidenziare la presenza di legami tra attività innovativa in differenti sfere e...

The EU 2020 strategy relies on innovation as the core driver of economic dynamics. The present Forum discusses the strategies established by the European Commission and the member states for the intensifi cation of innovative activities. Analyses of often neglected aspects of innovation policy,...