Abstract Since the Lisbon Agenda (2000), the European Union policies are increasingly
oriented towards innovation as attested to by the deep change of the new Regional Policy …

The empirical evidence concerning the impact of R&D subsidies on both sides of the
innovation process (input and output) and the overall performance of the firm is mixed …

The present Thesis, in the form of a collection of three essays, provides a contribution to the
literature on the effects of the public support to innovation activities. The first paper aims at …

Governments' financial constraints, on one side, and the need of support by private firmsin
facing the globalised competition and the actual economic crisis, on the other one, ask forthe …

This paper examines the evolution of regional innovation policy in Emilia-Romagna and
Valencia, two regions with similar economic features that implemented close innovation …

The tendency towards regional convergence that characterised most of the member states of
the European Union from the 1950s onwards came to an end around 1980. To the extent …

The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by
promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called …

This paper investigates empirically determinants of regional growth. The scant literature that
exists indicates that a region's economic growth depends to a large extent on several …

The article discusses the article by Lucchese, Nascia and Pianta (this volume). It does so
from the standpoint of innovation policy mixes. We highlight four main points. First most …

Abstract The South of Italy (hereafter Italian Mezzogiorno or simply Mezzogiorno) is an
outstanding example of conditional convergence in productivity. In the last forty years the …