Small-medium firms represent more than 90% of Italian firms, 50% of Italian production and 2/3 of employment and they need support in innovation process especially in known technology. The small-medium firm, in fact, operates chiefly in medium to low technology sectors, but cannot for this...

Fra le svariate variabili economiche la produttività emerge per l'importanza che essa riveste sopratutto in termini di sviluppo economico. L'obiettivo di questo lavoro è stato pertanto quello di fare una breve rassegna sulle possibili misurazioni della produttività globale ossia dei...

Net impact evaluation in a non-experimental context is discussed, addressing the case of vocational training policies provided by Piedmont Region, in the North-West Italy. Impact evaluation plays a major role in determining the effectiveness of public policies, being the net effect a crucial...

The starting point of this paper is a comparison between science and economy, considering how ethical approach could be a same key to understand some reasons of their recent crisis. We propose a theoretical framework based on the idea that families and firms are not only “private goods”, but...

Lung cancer is one of main cause of death worldwide and traditional chemotherapy agents have reached the maturity phase in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolutionary growth of knowledge patterns of vital radical innovations to...

[Analysis of the feelings and expectations of the middle management in hospital firms concerning the characteristics and aspects of Total Quality which are considered peculiar to the top management and Health Department. A study of the strategie factors that are necessary to form the element of...

Il presente scritto ha un duplice scopo: presentare le nuove basedati di impresa costruite presso il CERIS e predisporre un manuale d'uso per future ricerche. L'obiettivo ambizioso che ha spinto l'Istituto a investire ancora una volta risorse nell'arduo (e poco remunerativo) compito di...

This paper analyzes the effect of the forms of ownership on the substitutability between internal and external sources of fmance. In particular, we test whether fmancial constraints are more severe for independent firms and whether there are differences between members of large national business...

This work aims at investigating the changes in technical efficiency following the privatization of 39 Italian medium-sized firms operating in competitive sectors. Using Data Envelopment Analysis over a period of 10 years we highlight that, apart from acquisitions by foreign groups, there have...

According to our pricing framework block transaction premia depend on voting power being transferred through a block relative to voting power enjoyed by the market. Block transaction premia are shown to be correlated with both the block seller's and the block buyer's Shapley- Shubik power...