The work offers an integrated view on how knowledge is developed in localised systems of specialised firms (industrial districts - IDs), through informal social networks (communities of practice - CoPs), and firms networks, in an osmotic process between the internal to the district knowledge and...

The class of strongly semicontinuous functions is considered. For these functionsthe notion of mollified derivatives, introduced by Ermoliev, Norkin andWets [8], is extended to the second order. By means of a generalized Taylor'sformula, second order necessary and sufficient conditions are...

This paper proposes an index founded on objective expectations, with the aim of measuring the CS of a service such as "a university degree course" (DC) provided by the Italian universities. In fact the "quality of university teaching" has been tested for many years now submitting a questionnaire...

The challenges that our economic and financial system are going to face are tremendous. Some of these are not yet taken with the appropriate extension: SEPA, MiFID and Compliance, for instance, will respectively change the banking activity business model, state that the reputation issue is...

HISTORICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING STATE AND NATION BOUNDARIES: FOREWORD ON ITALY’S BORDERS IN ISTRIA AND DALMATIA. - Boundaries of states are often taken as a given although they seem, in not a few instances, to be quite arbitrary. Their origins and changes through the...

Dall'analisi del profilo di eticità dei fondi socialmente responsabili emerge lapresenza sia di fondi che limitano i criteri di selezione alla esclusione di impreseoperanti in settori non etici e alla inclusione di aziende che adottano politiche ambientali sostenibili, sia di fondi che...

In this comment I will only tackle the growth problem - the big target that (up to now) the EU has missed - fully sharing the view of the Report that, without a more sustained growth, both cohesion and stability are at stake. In particular, I will concentrate on the US-EU comparison, which is...

In this paper second-order optimality conditions for nonsmooth vector optimization problems are given by smooth approximations. We extend to the vector case the approach introduced by Ermoliev,Norkin and Wets to define generalized derivatives for discontinuous functions as limit of the classical...