<i> La centralità delle scuole di eccellenza nei network scientifico-tecnologici </i> (di Margherita Balconi, Andrea Laboranti) - ABSTRACT: Previous investigations showed that Italian university professors are the authors of a considerable share of the patents owned by firms in science-based...

This essay discusses the strength and weaknesses of the so-called linear model (LM) of innovation. It is a reaction to the habit of criticising it as over simplistic, mechanistic, or simply blatantly wrong. We argue that, while some criticisms are of course well grounded, many others are instead...

In the last years, a “codification debate” has developed among economists concerning the meaning and the empirical relevance of “tacit knowledge.” As this debate seems to have reached an impasse, we suggest a solution to take it a step further that is based on a more precise definition...