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 study contributes to the debate about the role of industrial policies for innovation and
internationalization on local economic performance. A panel data analysis on Italian regions …

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 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 …

Innovation and internationalisation: challenges for policy design Page 1 9 Regional
InsightsVolume 3, Issue 1 pp 9-11 ISSN 2042-9843 Introduction The stimulus for this study comes …

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 …

This article provides new evidence on the relevance and impact of public support to
innovation activities in the case of two European countries: Italy and The Netherlands, given …

In my view, the new Lisbon Strategy to prepare Europe for globalization must recognize, in
much greater depth than suggested in the chapter by Maria João Rodrigues, that Europe is …

By considering a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, this paper aims at comparing the
R&D performance of foreign (multinational) enterprises with that of home companies. Its …