innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … of tertiary-educated immigrants were 16.4% for France, 21.8% for Germany, 15.4% for Italy and 18.5% for Spain. Now … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …

innovation and, in consequence, the development, we propose to determine the existence of cooperation relationships and …, regional or national scale; and if recent trends point out towards innovation. The paper quantifies the sea cluster main …

regional level, making the regional level a relevant field of analysis. Spain and Italy are examples of this progressive change … institutions can devote to this issue. Again, Spain and Italy are clear examples of economic difficulties and diminishing public …

unemployment data for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, we test different forecasting horizons, in order …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

, to stimulate convergence between Italy's South and the more developed North, on municipalities with different histories …, whose legacy is considered, from Putnam (1993) onwards, to be a prime-facie cause of Southern Italy's underdevelopment …

prove a theorem. But we can bring you convincing evidence based on natural experiments of history . Statistics Italy (Istat … of Italy. The remaining municipalities and systems are characterized by weak commuting links and either are located in …