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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018

The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has …

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Digital technologies, employment and skills

Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019

The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...

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The dynamics of skills : technology and business cycles

Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015

except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …

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The agenda for evolutionary economics : results, dead ends, and challenges ahead

Dosi, Giovanni - 2022

forthcoming Manual, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies. Part One: Innovation, Organization and Industrial Dynamics … returns. As summarized in this essays Part One of the Manual addresses in the foregoing perspective, (i) Innovation and … reader is warned against multiple risks of ''normalization'' by which 'evolution' is reduced to sheer 'innovation', and the …

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What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander : cock-eyed counterfactuals and the performance effects of R&D

Coad, Alexander; Mathew, Nanditha; Pugliese, Emanuele - 2017

We investigate the effects of R&D investment on performance outcomes (sales growth and relative profitability) for Indian manufacturing firms. Previous research shows contradictory results - while some studies find a positive effect of R&D on firm performance, some find that firms investing in...

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Innovation strategies and firm growth

Bianchini, Stefano; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Tamagni, Federico - 2016

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

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Good times, bad times : innovation and survival over the business cycle

Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - 2018 - This version: December 2017

piecewise exponential model linking survival times, observed in the time period from 2001 to 2015, to longitudinal innovation … contingent to the form of innovation: technological innovations entail a more effective and enduring premium, as compared to …

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...

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Innovation pattern heterogeneity: a data-driven retrieval of the firms' approaches to innovation

Capasso, Marco; Rybalka, Marina - 2021

Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and … to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our study explores the diversity of innovation patterns among Norwegian … firms included in the 2018 Community innovation survey (CIS2018). By applying factor analysis on a wide array of survey …

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Technical progress and structural change : a long-term view

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Russo, Emanuele - 2019

of growth. Second, we provide an overview of the literature on sectoral innovation patterns as well as of recent evidence … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of … different groups of activities characterized by heterogeneous innovation patterns. Our results suggest that structural change …

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