This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can foster industrial upgrading. Special emphasis is given...

In this paper, we concentrate on how evolutionary economics contributes to a better understanding of the spatial evolution of newly emerging industries. Inspired by evolutionary thinking, four types of explanations are discussed and tested in an empirical analysis of the spatial pattern of the...

In many emergent markets, cross-industry alliances are necessary to develop and market new products and services. The resource-based view suggests that firms form alliances to access or acquire valuable, rare, non-imitable and non-substitutable resources, and that such access determines the...

Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the...

Due to the increasingly concerns of customers related to food safety and quality, the producers, processors and distributors have started to cooperate to build and implement information systems that share data and information in order to fulfill customers’ requirements. Those systems, called...

The food safety and quality represents one of the main concerns of governments, producers and consumers therefore were developed and implemented a set of national and international standards and regulation. One of the key concepts of those standards and regulation is about food traceability....

Introduzione – 1. Il Declino Competitivo del Calcio Italiano – 2. Il Rapporto di Lavoro Dipendente per un Calciatore Professionista – 3. IRPEF: Nozioni Generali e Risvolti nel Mondo Sportivo – 4. La Tassazione nelle Principali Leghe Europee – Conclusioni

The rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the increased use of ICT motivate the vision of an evolving digital economy. During the last decade this evolving digital economy has been the pre-eminent driver of structural change and economic growth at both the...

We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...

This paper investigates the impact of determination of an original initiator of transmission on demand as well as profits of the providers. For that purpose we present a new model, called differentiated traffic-based interconnection agreement (DTIA) that differentiates traffic into two types,...