This publication represents a first step in positioning the Inter-American Development Bank as a focal point of information on knowledge-related activities in its borrowing member countries. It presents in a consolidated way a set of available and internationally comparable indicators that map...

This publication represents a first step in positioning the Inter-American Development Bank as a focal point of information on knowledge-related activities in its borrowing member countries. It presents in a consolidated way a set of available and internationally comparable indicators that map...

There is widespread consensus that no individual policy instrument but rather a “policy mix” is needed to effectively drive the development and diffusion of environmental technologies. However, what exactly constitutes such a policy mix remains largely undefined. This paper takes this...

This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related literature on the relationship between environmental policy and competitiveness....

In order to assess the relationship between internal and external innovative inputs and innovative output at firm level, a knowledge production function is estimated for a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 1998-2003. To account for endogeneity of R&D effort in...

This paper aims to understand some of the mechanisms which dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge spreads in a network in which agents have ‘face-to-face’ learning interactions. We...

This article aims at understanding the determinants of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) turnover growth having in mind the fact that the Italian economic system relies substantially on small firms which have traditionally managed to stay competitive by adopting strategies such...

I recenti anni sono stati definiti come l'era della conoscenza; essa viene vista nell'interpretazione teorica come una delle determinanti principali dell'accumulazione, nel tempo, di un potenziale di sviluppo. Vi e' pertanto un sostanziale accordo sull'idea che la conoscenza sia un elemento...

This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of education is no longer an individual exercise of present...