Our paper analyzes the characteristics of micro firms managed by immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy. We process ISTAT data on individual businesses at province level, in order to understand if the foreign entrepreneurial rate is determined by local factors or by the ethnic characteristic of the...

Il processo di ristrutturazione e di riorganizzazione in atto nel sistema bancario italiano in questo contributo viene analizzato con riferimento alle operazioni di crescita esterna, attuate nel periodo 1987-1994 e raccolte in un data-base costruito presso il Ceris-Cnr. Nell'analisi empirica,...

<em>Effetti economici dell'innovazione tecnologica: un'analisi panel</em> - Economic impact of technological innovation: a panel data assessment by Chiara Franzoni e Giampaolo Vitali The hypotheses that innovation is beneficial to firm performance is tested on a new and original sample of micro-level...

This paper compares the capacity of two local innovation systems and territories, Canavese located in Piedmont (Italy) and Provence coalmining region (France), to renew in continuity or by breaking up local knowledge and know-how that had settled their productive success and social cohesion. It...