A new approach of the innovation policies at the local level is concerning the creation of regional innovation systems. In Italy however the district level seems to be more adequate for the public intervention to capture the specific sectorial and local nature of the innovation process. In the...

Le joint venture italiane nella Csi rappresentano un utile strumento di internazionalizzazione dell'impresa, tanto dal punto di vista della diversificazione dei mercati di sbocco, quanto da quello della delocalizzazione di attività produttive in paesi a basso costo del lavoro. Il censimento...

The aim of the paper is to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between industrial structure and M&A process. We focus on the determining factors fostering a firm to choose controlling acquisitions or non-controlling ones. We use the Acquisitions and Divestments Database (ADD), a...

The database ADD (Acquisition and Divestment Database) was established at Ceris in order to investigate the external growth of large EU firms. The selection of the companies included in the ADD was aimed at building an homogeneous database according to the Market Share Matrix (MSM) - a database...

The industrial policy - aimed at improving the process of internationalization of the Italian industrial system - must consider both the foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Italy, and the Italian investments abroad.Both policies are necessary even if the first one creates new jobs and the...

This paper studies the industrial structure of the machine tool sector in Japan. We tried to face both the evolution of its economic variables, and the most important factors of its strength and weakness. After having considered the start-up and the development of this industry (chapter 1), in...

The paper is focused on the internationalisation process of the Italian firms within the textile-clothing industry. According to the economic literature on this topics, the Italian industry, as well as the textile-clothing sector, seem to be a follower, as far as the internationalisation process...

Il processo di ristrutturazione e di riorganizzazione in atto nel sistema bancario italiano in questo contributo viene analizzato con riferimento alle operazioni di crescita esterna, attuate nel periodo 1987-1994 e raccolte in un data-base costruito presso il Ceris-Cnr. Nell'analisi empirica,...

The main goal of the paper is to shed light on the industrial structure of the local nanotech cluster, in order to make an industrial policy proposal to renew the local industrial system. The concept of industrial cluster and the main characteristics of nanotechnologies are discussed, to define...

Our paper analyzes the characteristics of micro firms managed by immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy. We process ISTAT data on individual businesses at province level, in order to understand if the foreign entrepreneurial rate is determined by local factors or by the ethnic characteristic of the...