The paper studies the evolution in the support to firms in China. Using a tailored imitativelearning approach, Chinese policy makers have supported national champions (similarlyto the Japanese experience), while also favouring the emergence of sectoral agglomerations ofsmes (as in the case of...

In recent years the contraposition between basic and applied research or between science and technology has become rather vague. The new innovation path is less linear, socially dispersed and trans-disciplinary. For this reason, in some fields also basic research has proved to be fundamental for...

In recent years, many so-called developed countries had to change their competitive strategies, due to the emergence on the international scenario of countries based on low labour costs. A growing number of studies signals the need for the advance countries to increase the technological content...