-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

guidelines from the Lisbon Agenda, there has been an upturn in regional legislative activity concerning innovation, leading to a … in the southern regions account for nearly all the resources devoted to fostering innovation. This paper presents a … summary indicator, consisting of three "sub-indicators" approximating, respectively, the input of the innovation process …

The paper surveys the literature on the measurement of innovation activity and evaluates the position of Italy with … respect to the other major European countries. Innovation has been measured from different perspectives: the environment in … which firms operate, firms' commitment, its outcome. Both traditional and new measures of innovation are considered, using …

, development and innovation is crucial. The purpose of this paper is to underline the benefits that can come from cluster … development and outline the impact of clusters on innovation, Knowledge and competitiveness in the wood processing industry and …

intensive margin and extensive margin, but a possible lower impact on innovation than could have been expected. …