Hybrid Innovation. The Italian Machine Tool Industry Case

University-Industry Collaboration in Biopharmaceutical Industry: The Italian Case

Abstract We investigate the determinants of University-Industry interactions in the biopharmaceutical in Italy, over the period 2004-2010. Because of the specificities of biopharmaceutical industry, we choose co-publishing as a proxy of University-Industry relations. By integrating different statistical sources, we construct a novel dataset of co-published articles containing measures of proxim...

FS IV 98 - 9 Patenting and Industrial Performance : The Case of the Machine Tool Industry

Patenting and Industrial Performance: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry by Manfred Fleischer Using the case of an important capital goods industry the paper examines the impact of the national patent system on the performance of firms. Many theories attempt to explain the firms’ innovative behavior using the concepts of national and sectorial systems of innovation. The patent law plays a pa...

Upstream Volatility in the Supply Chain: The Machine Tool Industry as a Case Study

Cyclicality is a well-known and accepted fact of life in market-driven economies. Less well known or understood, however, is the phenomenon of amplification as one looks “upstream” in the industrial supply chain. We examine the amplification phenomenon and its implications through the lens of one “upstream” industry that is notorious for the intensity of the business cycles it faces: the machin...

The Italian Dental Industry

Services innovation patterns: the case of Italian B2B distribution firms

Companies are facing some hard questions about the unavoidable need to find sustainable means of competition that enable them to face the challenges posed by new market players and dynamics. These challenges are made all the more difficult by the tendency of companies operating in a wide variety of sectors to follow and reproduce old patterns and approaches. The evolution path, however, is towa...