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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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Leadership Cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

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The Political Economy of Oil and the Crisis of the Arab State System

Atzori, Daniel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

positively and complementarily evolve only if the opportunity cost of investing in innovation is sufficiently low. We … innovation outputs. When empirical evidence confirms that this complementarity plays a key role, and consequently strong links … solely to the production of (local) public goods (social capital) or innovation inputs as independent elements of firm …

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R&D in Cleaner Technology and International Trade

Youssef, Slim Ben - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We consider a dynamic three-stage game played by two regulator-firm hierarchies to capture the scale and technological effects of opening markets to international trade. Each firm produces one good sold on the market. Firms can invest in R&D in order to lower their fixed emission/output ratio...

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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis

Otto, Vincent M.; Löschel, Andreas; Dellink, Rob - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...

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