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Toxic pollution and labour markets : uncovering Europe's left-behind places

Bez, Charlotte; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022

This paper looks at the nexus between toxic industrial pollution and the spillovers from the plant's production activities, leading to regional lock-ins. Geolocalised facility-level data from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) are used to calculate annual...

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Evolutionary growth theory

Dosi, Giovanni; Roventini, Andrea - 2024

This work presents the evolutionary growth theory, which studies the drivers and patterns of technological change and production together with the (imperfect) mechanisms of coordination among a multitude of firms. This requires to studies economies as complex evolving systems, i.e. as ecologies...

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Innovation strategies and firm growth

Bianchini, Stefano; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Tamagni, Federico - 2016

on high-growth performance. Finally, we find evidence of super-modularity of the growth function, revealing …

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Good times, bad times : innovation and survival over the business cycle

Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - 2018 - This version: December 2017

High-potential new ventures are a source of economic growth, which policy makers call upon in times of crisis when entrepreneurship is seen as a remedy to economic downturn. Yet at these times new ventures face intensified selection, and survival hinges on heterogeneous capabilities. We examine...

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Links between multinational firms and domestic firms : a comparison of the software industry in India, Ireland and Israel

Giarratana, Marco (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper aims to analyze the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of the software industry in these countries. The study is centred on software production and IT-related services - software development, chip design and electronic devices design, computer and Internet...

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Skills, division of labor and performance in collective inventions : evidence from the open source software

Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - 2006

project performance. Skill heterogeneity across participants is in line with two fundamental organizational features of the … modularization of project activities is an important predictor of performance. Our econometric estimations show that both skill level … non linear. Design modularity is also positively associated with the performance of the project. …

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...

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Pseudo-NK : an enhanced model of complexity

Valente, Marco - 2008

This paper is based on the acknowledgment that NK models are an extremely useful tool in order to represent and study the complexity stemming from interactions among components of a system. For this reason NK models have been applied in many domains, such as Organizational Sciences and...

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The impact of M&A on technology sourcing strategies

Cefis, Elena - 2008

acquisition are most often related to firms’ innovative performance. Following involvement in a M&A, firms tend primarily to focus …

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The market for patents in Europe

Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor); Giuri, Paola (contributor) - 2006

By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent breadth, value, protection, and other factors suggested by the literature also have an impact, but not as important. In addition, most of these factors affect the willingness to...

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