Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...

Our hypothesis is proposed to introduce the idea of ​​Leviathan weak, the classical conception of the state is problematized; primarily in regions suffering public violence, lack of legitimacy and sovereignty. This paper is the first part of a project that distinguishes three components that...

During the past decade of declining FDI barriers, small domestic firms disproportionately contracted while large multinational firms experienced a substantial growth in Japan’s manufacturing sector. This paper quantitatively assesses the impact of FDI globalization on intra-industry...

Firms active in knowledge-intensive fields are increasingly organizing their R&D activities on an international scale. This paper investigates whether firms active in biotechnology can improve their technological performance by developing R&D activities in multiple technology clusters. Regions...

The growing importance of internationalisation strategies leads us to investigate the development trend of the research contributions and attempt to bridge the gap in the Italian versus the international literature. The paper conducts a review of the Italian journals and is a significant step...

"Die Wahl eines Standorts ist für Firmen von fundamentaler Bedeutung. Häufig werden Investitionen nötig, die eine Verlagerung mit hohen 'versunkenen Kosten' verbinden. Auch wenn die Anzahl der Verlagerungen seit den 1970er Jahren deutlich zugenommen hat, bleiben sie weiterhin relativ seltene...

The resources channelled into Southern Italy’s industrial plants from outside have remained substantial over the years, accounting for 20 per cent of the employees and 25 per cent of the investments. These flows are reconstructed drawing on the Bank of Italy’s Invind business surveys, and...

The paper decomposes a geographical concentration index between time-invariant and time varying location factors to examine the temporal scope of a spillover. This is the period of time over which one firm's activity directly affects the location of other activities in the same industry. An...