The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...

Since the late Nineties, the Italian economic growth progressively decelerates. The slowdown affects, in particular, labour productivity, whose rates of growth are considerably lower than that recorded in the past. After 2000, Italy seems to be in for a phase of economic decline. Several studies...