Several studies have emphasized the role of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in fostering innovation in metropolitan areas and regional innovation systems. Such areas are capable of expressing a strong demand for KIBS and consequently stimulate the rise and growth of KIBS. Despite an...

<em>Competitività, imprenditorialità e immigrazione. Il caso del Veneto </em> - In un contesto economico sempre più dinamico e competitivo, la capacità di un territorio di attrarre risorse umane qualificate si dimostra una caratteristica chiave per accrescere la propria competitività in un mercato...

Studies on service management have broadly discussed the relationship between customization and standardization in services. Studies on modularity have enriched the debate by identifying an additional form of service provision able to couple the advantages of these two alternative approaches....

This paper uses a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2004–06, to investigate whether different types of agglomeration economies affect firms’ internationalisation choices. The main novelty of the work consists in linking the hypothesis of firm heterogeneity to the...