The paper describes the innovation strategies of a representative sample of Italian firms participating to the Bank of … able to influence the firms� decision of undertaking the innovation process. Even though R&D expenditure and innovation … extent with the firms� ability to introduce an innovation. Moreover, exporting firms have a higher propensity both to …

sectorial innovation in the host Italian provinces. We combine several sources of data to estimate panel count models …

innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …

The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …

The lag in innovation in Italy vis-�-vis the other main industrial countries is one of the effects of the … suitable than debt for financing innovation, is less common than in other countries. Public incentives for firms have had … modest results. To enhance the capacity for innovation some actions should be taken to help firms grow, adopt a more …

. Equity is a preferable source of external finance for innovation than debt. It does not require collateral, does not …

low by international standards and Italian firms take out only a small number of patents. External sources of innovation … different innovation sources increases the probability of collaboration; and that proximity is more important for small- and …