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Author stresses the importance of innovation forthe economic system of third industrialization. This paper shows that the … introductionof innovation - a competitive factor nowadays more and more essentialin times of market globalization and tough price …
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By introducing the Code of Industrial Property and the related reform on patents and research projects Italy has complied with the guidelines issued by TRIPs Agreement and GATT negotiations. This paper aims at verifying empirically the relation between the patent activity index and exports in...
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Different are the patterns adopted by the firms to sustain innovation and growth, by considering at the same time the …
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World's population has become lately a predominantly urban population: out of the 6.5 billion world's population, 3.3 billion live in cities. In a global context, cities have become the places where new services are developed, serving as hubs for networks that are ever wider and ever more...
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In the last decades the growth of singles and couples without children has brought about deep change in the structure of the italian households, in particular in the Northern regions. The paper first examines the effects of this change on the consumer behaviour and the purchase decisions; a...
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The influence of socio-economic factors in ICT and Internet use is at the core of how the knowledge society will develop. Socio-economic status reinforces some practices for younger age groups, mirroring different needs for peer-to-peer communication and knowledge development. Differences by...
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«Soft» innovations are strongly emerging in modern competitive arenas in the form of dematerialization of the offering system. Thanks to the use of services, de-materialization aims to make mass production processes evolve, in order to make them suitable to face competitive environment...
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Based on a survey which includes over 5.000 European firms, this article investigates the innovation investment … strategies of firms in response to the crisis in the service and manufacturing sectors. Overall innovation investment shows a … the firm level, firms devoted to service innovation are more inclined to invest in innovation as a response of the crisis …
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innovation; these data are often inadequate to analyse the structure and the dynamics of these two key factors of economic growth …
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have failed to find a statistically robust relationship between product innovation and firm growth. Additionally, the … empirical evidence also shows that the relationship between product innovation and firm growth is more pronounced when the …
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