Despite the acknowledged positive effect of human capital on firm innovativeness, there have been few attempts to investigate which emotional intelligence competencies promote innovative outcomes. In human intensive industrial clusters specialized in traditional products, firm innovativeness...

This study explores the still under-investigated phenomenon of the development of behavioral competencies in higher education settings. We carried out a study on a sample of graduate students enrolled in different disciplinary academic programs in a public university located in northern Italy....

Research has extensively underlined the positive impact of emotional, social and cognitive competencies on leadership effectiveness. Despite the fact that literature acknowledges that these competencies can be learned from different experiences over a person’s lifetime, research has mainly...