<em>Entrepreneurship and the birth of new innovative firms in Europe: an analysis of its determinants in some high-tech sectors</em> - This paper evaluates the importance of some key elements in the process leading to the birth and start-up of a new firm. We focus on a sample of recently founded and...

The study explores the impact of the local endowment of both human and infrastructural capital on the creation of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in the 103 Italian provinces in the 1996-2005 period. Our empirical results indicate that both human and infrastructural capital have a significant...

<i> Apprendimento collettivo, ICTs e performance delle PMI </i> (di Roberta Capello e Alessia Spairani) - ABSTRACT: In the last twenty years great attention has been devoted to the role played by ICTs on the performance of economic systems, at both national and regional level. Some basic facts are well...