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Social capital as a measure of innovation for rural clusters : the case of France and US
Ceapraz, Ion Lucian - 2012 - Draft version
The paper emphasizes the role of social capital in some particular rural clusters like the French "Poles d'Excellence Rurale" (PER) and the U.S. Rural Knowledge Clusters (RKC). The recent revival of the literature on social capital considers this resource as highly valuable when considering the...
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How cluster membership places the mediatior effect of internal resources on the association between KIBS and the growth of NIFs
Belso-Martínez, José; Molina-Morales, Xavier; … - 2011
Recently, network literature has considered the crucial importance of the resources which firm obtains through its network of external relationships. Specifically, this paper analyzes if the mediator effect of the internal resources on the association between Knowledge-Intensive Business...
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Social relationship network within publishing industrial cluster
Liu, Shouxian; Gu, Xinyi - In: IEIS 2021 : Proceedings of 8th International Conference …, (pp. 101-106). 2022
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Advantages of formation of innovative clusters in modern economy
Nikulina, O. V. - 2013
In article the features of the cluster approach application at formation of national and regional innovative system are considered. On the basis of the historical development analysis the analogy between territorial and production complexes and modern clusters was created by the authors, their...
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The role of firms' location on persistency of various types of innovation : to be presented in Uddevalla Symposium 2016 : Theme: VIII: Knowledge, firms and locations in the era of...
Tavassoli, Sam; Karlsson, Charlie - 2016
This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 and 2012. On the one hand, we distinguish...
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Civic capital and the vertical integration of service provision : evidence from Italy
Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2013
This paper studies whether civic capital acts an effective restraint against opportunistic behavior in transactions, looking at the degree of outsourcing to external suppliers of service provision in Italian firms. Our results show that, on average, firms tend to outsource more services where...
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Cooperation and innovation performance in rural, low-technology regions
Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Wassmann, Pia - 2014 - This version: June 11, 2014
This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions characterized by a solid economic performance despite a low-technology industrial structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the spatial and functional dimension of cooperation. Generic...
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Multi-channel information dissemination for disaster evacuees : the case of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan for the 29th ITS European Conference, Trento, Italy, 1st – 4th Aug...
Cheng, John W.; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2018
This study examines factors that affect disaster evacuees' usage of different media in a multi-channel media environment, which means that people can receive similar content from multiple media channels. Using the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan as the case study, we find that that...
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Social capital, institutions and growth : further lessons from the Italian regional divide
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2011 - This draft: March 16, 2011
to recognize that the current large regional gap in Italy is significantly linked to two policy decisions taken by the … constraint for the growth of southern Italy's mainly as a consequence of the deep process of governmental decentralization that … control for the impact of labor market reforms, a second and almost simultaneous institutional shock that took place in Italy …
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Historical legacy and policy effectiveness : the long-term influence of pre-unification borders in Italy
D'Adda, Giovanna; De Blasio, Guido - 2014 - Very preliminary: February 2014
, 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 …
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