parameters of development and increase of competitiveness of the national economy. The modern market economy of the world …-money relations into the defining mechanism of economic development. It is thought, that increase of national competitiveness in …

"command and control" bureaucracies in the past. The adoption of innovations in information technology (IT) and organizational …

Objective of the paper is to verify which are the determinants of innovations in theItalian food industry and which … are thepresence of firm R&D and of innovations and the independent variables are firmcharacteristics.The results of the … analysis show that, among the determinants of firm R&D intramoenia and of firm innovations in the Italian food industry for the …

Improving the sustainability of grazed rangelands requires that landowners adopt management innovations. We interviewed … resources, peer influences, and perceived drawbacks of potential innovations (e.g., difficulty of pilot-testing new grazing …

profitable innovations that traditional knowledge can generate. Inthis context, this study attempts to understand the nature of … drugs. The analysis has been broadly contextualized in thepremise that the traditional knowledge innovations are non …

evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, the third paper uses innovations, as proxied by patents, and … degree of specialization, and competitiveness. Each chapter contains a review of the relevant literature.The paper entitled …