This paper provides empirical evidence on the innovation performance in the European
countries in the years of recovery from the global economic and financial crisis by using the …

This article focuses on the Italian and Spanish models of growth and analyses labour
market, human capital and innovation policy reforms since the mid 1990s. The comparison …

This paper analyses the relationship between increased competition and cluster resources–
that is, horizontal cooperation, supporting organizations, and knowledge transfer–during the …

This article intends to provide significant contributions towards the debate concerning the
role of technological development, its impact on developing countries and its contribution …

This article deals with the strategies that Italian innovative manufacturing companies have
deployed in recent years. Italy has, in fact, been hit particularly severely by the international …

Within both the «Varieties of Capitalism»(Hall and Soskice 2001; Crouch 2005; Morgan and
Whitley 2012; Thelen 2012) and the «European Social Model»(Sapir 2005; Dølvik and …

This article examines the role of entrepreneurial behaviour, property rights and state
effectiveness as determinants of national innovation. Entrepreneurial behaviour reflects not …

Over the past few decades, the world economy has undergone radical transformations, in
part connected to the expansion of the 'digital economy', in part to the growing …

1 Productivity can be measured by using different methods, indicators and statistical
techniques (Del Gatto, Di Liberto and Petraglia, 2011; Balk, 2018; Tsvetkova et al., 2020). As …

This article seeks to shed light on the profound changes taking place in the Italian innovation
system. While the system ensured sustained growth until the Eighties, the country's …