This paper discusses an increasingly important, yet challenging development, the international coordination of nationally rooted policies or funding schemes to support international collaboration in science and technology (S&T). It conceptualizes ways in which government ministries or agencies...

Interaction between private and public organisations is a fundamental source of innovation and a crucial framing condition for reaping the benefits of new technologies through their diffusion in regulated domains. With a focus on the health sector, in this essay we investigate the emergence of...

In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon thevertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources ofcompetitive advantage has resulted in changes in the size distribution of firms and also in thedegree of concentration of...

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

This paper investigates whether ICTs hardware and services play a complementary role inboosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICTs fixed capital are anecessary but not sufficient condition leading to productivity gains, above all in late adoptercountries. Their...

This paper adopts the point of view that a crisis will face a person, organisation, region orcountry at some point in their life span or history. The question is how to prepare for thecrises and recover from them afterwards? Some of us recover better than others and in ashorter time. The concept...