The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … scattered. In many ways, the jury is still out. First of all, there is still little agreement about what ‘performance’ means …. The range of indicators adopted in the literature varies widely: financial performance, market shares, new products …

specialization, two key factors of the Italian economic performance. But this model presents some limits too, one being related to … the weak performance of the Italian economy in the high-tech sectors may depend upon ownership structure in Italy …