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Financing innovation in Italy: an analysis of venture capital and private equity investments
Vacca, Valerio - Banca d'Italia - 2013
Using a unique data set, this paper describes the main features of the venture capital industry in Italy. Operations by Italian specialised venture capitalists are only in part devoted to small, young firms from advanced industries, have a rather short duration and are weakly focused on a few...
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Innovation and productivity in SMEs. Empirical evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2009
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … Italian SMEs from the �Survey on Manufacturing Firms� conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995 … firm�s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive. …
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