"Hitting the Target: Analyzing Technology Commercialization Factors" abstract Local and national governments are putting universities under constant pressure to promote economic growth. Commercialization of technology has been identified as the main mechanism by which universities can do this. The literature on technology transfer by universities focuses on internal and external factors that can positively affect…

"Sustaining Industrial Competitiveness after the Crisis: Lessons from the Automotive Industry" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")

"Why are Some Countries Better at Science and Technology than Others?" abstract In order to be effective, must a nation’s political-economic institutions “fit” the cultural values of the society in which they are situated? Many countries, especially in the developing world, adopt foreign institutions with mixed levels of success. Often these institutions are chosen based…

"Technology Standards and IPR Policy and Practice in China: An Early Investigation" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")

"Do Financial Constraints explain Innovation Shortfalls? New Evidence from Chile" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"External collaborations, on-the-job autonomy and the propensity to use patents to create new firms" abstract We analyze patent spinoffs by looking at the organizational characteristics of the parent organization, i.e. the firm where the patented invention has occurred. Understanding the origin of new technology ventures is important because they are the engine of creative destruction…

"Persistence of innovation and knowledge structure: Evidence from a sample of Italian firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"Pragmatism, practice, and the boundaries of organization" Abstract The article uses a longitudinal qualitative analysis of key transitions in the relationship between Fiat Auto and a major supplier to challenge conventional approaches to the study of activities at the boundary between organizations. It shows, in particular, that scholars focused on the importance of "modular" product…

"Technology policy and climate change"

"A stock-flow analysis of a Schumpeterian innovation economy" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"Attractiveness for innovation: The case of Brazil" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"Networks,  innovation and new economic sociology: A unified perspective" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"Understanding innovation in the public sector: Survey results from Europe"

"The role of trade costs in global production networks: Evidence from China's processing trade regime"

"Evaluating the impacts of R&D subsidies: The effectiveness of a local intervention" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"To patent or not to patent: an experiment on incentives to copyright in a sequential innovation setting" (at Dipartimento di Economia S. Cognetti de Martiis, Sala Seminari)

"German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention" abstract After Hitler took power in 1933, scientists who had at least one Jewish grandparent were dismissed from German universities.  Many of them moved to the United States; their patents make it possible to trace research fields in which U.S. invention benefited from the arrival of German-Jewish émigrés.  Difference-in-differences analyses compare changes…

"Innovation and market dynamics: A two-mode network approach to user-producer relations" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis)

"Knowledge types and organizational architecture: Configuring space to compete in symbolic and synthetic knowledge-based services" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")

"Spatial clustering and nonlinearities in the location of multinational firms" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")