The economic literature suggests several approaches to explain the differences of technological performances among nations, such as the varieties of capitalism's theory of innovation. However, the relation between typologies of executive and technological performances of countries is generally...

The theorem of not independence of any technological innovation states that in the long run, the behavior and evolution of any technological innovation is not independent from the behavior and evolution of the other technological innovations. The philosophical foundations of this theory are...

Science plays a fundamental role in society. Social studies of science have analyzed the nature of scientific research and the fruitful effects for innovation, employment and economic growth of nations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins, nature, evolution and structure of...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rivalry between basic and applied research within public research labs. Study design considers the international publications a proxy of basic research, whereas the self-financing deriving from technology transfer activities is an indicator of...

The crisis of international markets following recent events such as terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East, high public debts, growing financial globalisation and integration have raised an interest in the analysis of country risk among industrialised countries as well as emerging nations....

John Rae has recently been rediscovered as a precursor of the endogenous growth theory. This study argues that Rae needs to be rediscovered a second time for his original contribution to clarify the role of the innovation and technical change within the economic systems. The aim of this paper is...

The aim of this study is twofold – on the one hand, to report a flow analysis based on historical trends of steel, from 1997 to 2008, across some leading geo-economic players; on the other, the analysis of long-term relationship between steel consumption and economic growth by the sensitivity...

The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how countries achieve and sustain technological and economic advantage. This study confronts the problem here by developing a theoretical framework based on the concept of purposeful system having a purpose of global...

This paper explores the scientific interaction of public research institutions across Italy and USA over 2000-2010 based on co-authored publications. Data are from Scopus (2012) and National Science Foundation (2012). The results show the trends of US-Italy scientific collaborations per...

The main aim of this study is to analyze the evolution of public debts and general government deficits/surplus across European countries within and outside the monetary unification. In particular, this study compares the dynamics of public debts and general government deficits between European...