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Technological Innovations in Agricultural Tractors: Adopters’ behaviour towards new technological trajectories and future directions
Ferrari, Ester; Bollani, Luigi; Coccia, Mario; Cavallo, … - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2013
Latest advancements in tractors engineering have allowed farmers to increase productivity, and simultaneously to reduce operator’s hazards. However, little attention has been given to farmers’ behaviour and attitude toward the adoption of technological innovations concerning agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927853
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SCALE OF TECHNOLOGY MAGNITUDE FOR MEASURING THE SPATIAL ATTRACT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
Analogous to the Richter Scale for earthquakes, you introduce the Scale of Technological Magnitude (SMAT in Italian), an event scale to quantify the size and impact of technology transfer in geo-economic environment and adopters. It is based on number of technological contacts and computed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386270
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Research trends in nanotechnology studies across geo-economic areas
Coccia, Mario; Finardi, Ugo; Margon, Diego - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2010
performance in nanotechnology research production by South Korea in comparison with Japan and other geo-economic areas. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200946
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Evolutionary dynamics and scientific flows of nanotechnology research across geo-economic areas
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2011
new research fields and different industries. In addition, South Korea and China show higher performance than other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200955
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Metrics for driving political economy of energy and growth
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2009
Energy metrics is the development of a whole new theoretical framework for the conception and measurement of energy and economic performances, energy efficiency and productivity improvements with important political economy implications consistent with the best use of all natural and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543169
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Gli approcci biologici nell’economia dell’innovazione
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2005
The innovation is a main variable of the economic growth, but the origin and diffusion of innovations are functions of several variables. For this reason, the contributions of other disciplines have been used to understand in depth its behaviour and spatial-temporal dynamic. The aim of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005459384
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La burocrazia nella ricerca pubblica. PARTE I, Una rassegna dei principali studi
Coccia, Mario; Gobbino, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to present the main studies carried out on the Bureaucracy in public research institutions. The first part of the paper describes the classical theory concerning the Bureaucracy developed by Weber, Merton et al. The second part of the research focuses the studies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585424
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La burocrazia nella ricerca pubblica. PARTE III, Organizzazione e project management negli enti pubblici di ricerca: l’analisi del CNR
Coccia, Mario; Gobbino, Alessandro; Rolfo, Secondo - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
The organization of public research labs plays a fundamental role to increase their efficiency and the production of scientific research necessary to economic system. The paper presents the main organizational studies carried out on public research bodies in U.S.A. and Europe. After that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178622
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La burocrazia nella ricerca pubblica. PARTE II, Analisi della burocrazia negli Enti Pubblici di Ricerca
Coccia, Mario; Gobbino, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
Research institutes have two organizational behaviour: high bureaucracy – low performance and low bureaucracy – high … performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087061
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MODELS FOR MEASURING THE RESEARCH PERFORMANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC LABS
Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
). Thus, the measure and evaluation of research performance (metrics) of its units (public research institute) is needed …. General models to assess the R&D performance of a public research lab are presented here. The methodology uses the … indications about the performance of research bodies. The functions are successfully applied to 200 public research institutes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386266