The empirical target of this article is two-fold: exploring the variety of regional innovative patterns in Italy; and assessing whether innovation systems can be found, and how they operate, at a sub-national scale. The empirical analysis is based on an in-depth analysis of the data provided by...

CANTWELL J. and IAMMARINO S. (2000) Multinational corporations and the location of technological innovation in the UK regions, Reg. Studies 34, 317-332. In a rapidly globalizing economy, and particularly in the face of a process of economic integration such as that occurring in the European...

I<sc>ammarino</sc> S., P<sc>iva</sc> M., V<sc>ivarelli</sc> M. and <sc>von</sc> T<sc>unzelmann</sc> N. Technological capabilities and patterns of innovative cooperation of firms in the UK regions, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for...

Guerrieri P. and Iammarino S. (2007) Dynamics of export specialization in the regions of the Italian Mezzogiorno: persistence and change, Regional Studies 41, 933-947. During the 1980s and 1990s the Italian southern economy displayed signs of transformation in production and export structures,...

That industrial specialization is inversely correlated with regional size is an established empirical finding. However in establishing this relationship, authors have used several different measures of regional industrial specialization or diversification. This review paper investigates whether...