<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> Il Digital Divide: un modello di analisi dei percorsi di diffusione delle tecnologie digitali </i> (di Nicoletta Corrocher° e Andrea Ordanini°°) - ABSTRACT: This article proposes a new model to measure the digital divide within a set of countries or geographical areas. Starting from a series of...