The paper mainly aims at defining strategic industries, establishing selection criteria and pointing out opportunities for the implementation of policies specific to market economies for promoting these industries.

Romanian Abstract: Cea de a patra revoluție industrială, caracterizată prin proliferareaenergiilor verzi, prin impactul deosebit al Internetului, extinderea robotizării,biotehnologiilor, nanotehnologiei, microeletronicii, materialelor avansate, prin apariția șiextinderea rapidă a...

Sustainable excellence is a modern field of research, a problem for both managers and scientists. The paper offers a method in order to guide the steps toward sustainable development of the industrial companies.With the help of 21 criteria it is measured the increasing accumulated synergy of the...

This research proposes an investigation into the creation and the later development, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, of a private company called CRIT Srl, constituted by a group of large and medium-sized mechanical firms. The purpose of CRIT is not only to act as a technology broker,...

Globalization is the rapid increase in cross-border economic, social, technological exchange under the conditions of capitalism. International trade and investment have been the engines of world growth over the past 50 years. The tons of goods traded around the world have grown by 16 times since...

This paper proposes a new methodology for training in the field of organization development, named development-training. The approach on the base of the methodology come from a research project of Ceris-CNR and the Association Motiva; it is inspired by complexity, constructivism, personalism,...

This paper discusses the results of a research project on new technology-based firms. The aim of the project is to analyze the innovation activity of new technology-based firms. The focus is on the process of knowledge creation that fuels innovation. The analysis is based on an empirical...

The European market is rapidly enlarging towards the Eastern part of the continent. This phenomenon is stimulating the enterprises localized in the North-Eastern part of Italy to innovate their productivity processes and their products in order to preserve their competitiveness in the national...

This paper aims at examining the university spin-off firms context at present in place in Italy, with particular attention to the relationship with the academic institutions and the problems of financing. In the latest years, more and more attention is devoted to investigate the emergence of the...

This paper examines the results of a survey carried out in 2007 by the Bank of Italy concerning different characteristics of the organization of lending activities. Between 2003 and 2006 the physical distance between the headquarters and the branches increased, the limits to the decision-making...