Management training and development have been recognised as a critical antecedent for the competitiveness of medium-sized enterprises given their key role in nurturing firms' innovation capabilities. There is broad empirical evidence, however, showing that such companies are reluctant to make...

The Italian economy has suffered from structural problems for the last fifteen years, which have weakened its competitiveness. The innovation gap, by international standards, is one of those problems. Business incubators are one of the solutions proposed in the economic literature and put into...

AbstractThe following sections are included:SummaryIntroductionTheoretical Background and HypothesesTechnological contextOrganizational contextEnvironmental contextResearch MethodologyData collectionMeasuresFindingsCase studyDescriptive statisticsRegression resultsConclusion, Managerial...