Elita, Schillaci Carmela; Marco, Romano; Melita, Nicotra - In: Entrepreneurship Research Journal 3 (2013) 1, pp. 109-126
In the paper, the concept of absorptive capacity, already successfully applied to firms, is extended to territories. Territory’s Absorptive Capacity is here defined as the ability of a Region to identify, assimilate, and exploit external knowledge.