@article {580, title = {Is Smart Specialisation Strategy coherent with regional innovative capabilities?}, journal = {Regional Studies}, volume = {53}, year = {2019}, pages = {1004-1016}, publisher = {Routledge}, abstract = {

The implementation of the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) has required European regions to identify the technological domains in which they show superior innovative capabilities. This choice should promote specialization and facilitate diversification into new sectors. Given that regional specialization shows path dependence, successful diversification can be achieved in domains closely related to the existing knowledge base. The paper provides a first empirical assessment of the coherence between the technological domains chosen by Italian regions and those in which they show actual innovative capabilities, as measured by their patenting activity. {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} 2018 Regional Studies Association.

}, keywords = {empirical analysis, Europe, Innovation, regional development, regional policy, specialization}, issn = {00343404}, doi = {10.1080/00343404.2018.1523542}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056099350\&doi=10.1080\%2f00343404.2018.1523542\&partnerID=40\&md5=8bda85ac3cf98fb76919176089a75488}, author = {D{\textquoteright}Adda, D. and Guzzini, E. and Iacobucci, D. and Palloni, R.} } @article {582, title = {Collaboration for innovation and project failure. A dynamic analysis}, journal = {Economics of Innovation and New Technology}, volume = {27}, year = {2018}, pages = {717-730}, publisher = {Routledge}, abstract = {

The aim of this paper is to investigate the hypothesis that there is a complex and bidirectional relation between collaboration and failure in innovation projects. On the one hand, collaboration in innovative activities may increase the likelihood of project failure. At the same time, the failure in innovation projects may induce the firm to collaborate in order to overcome the problems that determined the failure of innovation projects (induced collaboration). Up to now, we are not aware about the existence of any empirical paper analysing the interaction between these two mechanisms. This paper aims at filling this gap by providing a motivation for the induced collaboration and testing its empirical relevance in a dynamic framework. The empirical analysis is carried out by using two consecutive German Community Innovation Surveys referring to the period 2006{\textendash}2010. The empirical results support the hypothesis of a bidirectional causal relationship between collaboration and failure. {\textcopyright} 2017, {\textcopyright} 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group.

}, issn = {10438599}, doi = {10.1080/10438599.2017.1389125}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032196901\&doi=10.1080\%2f10438599.2017.1389125\&partnerID=40\&md5=adb72ca49b57eeca1cd8d06c5fbe7ed1}, author = {Guzzini, E. and Iacobucci, D. and Palestrini, A.} } @article {Giannini2018105, title = {To centralize or not to centralize: R\&D organization in diversified firms}, journal = {Industria}, volume = {39}, number = {1}, year = {2018}, note = {cited By 0}, pages = {105-123}, doi = {10.1430/90440}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050100012\&doi=10.1430\%2f90440\&partnerID=40\&md5=df68323f57ad50f4a7a414ef1837890d}, author = {Giannini, V. and Guzzini, E.} } @article {585, title = {The dark side of collaborations for innovation: Are collaborations with universities darker than those with other partners?}, journal = {Industria}, volume = {37}, year = {2016}, pages = {613-636}, publisher = {Societa Editrice il Mulino}, abstract = {

In addition to its advantages, collaboration for innovation might increase the cost of innovation because of leakages of strategic information, appropriability problems and coordination difficulties. When collaborating with public research institutions (pris) the latter problem is expected to be more severe, thus raising the probability of project failure. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether and to what extent collaboration for innovation raises the probability of failure, i.e. delay or abandonment of innovative projects. It also aims to verify whether and to what extent collaboration with PRIs increases the likelihood of failure. We use data from the fourth Italian Community Innovation Survey (cis 4), which collected data for the three-year period 2002-2004. The empirical results support the hypothesis that collaboration significantly affects the probability of delay or abandonment of innovative projects. However, collaboration with PRIs does not increase the likelihood of failure compared to collaboration with other partners. Moreover, we find that delays are influenced by cost factors (such as lack of financial resources) or knowledge factors (such as lack of qualified personnel) while abandonment is significantly associated with market factors (such as uncertain demand).

}, issn = {00197416}, doi = {10.1430/86053}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85017646412\&doi=10.1430\%2f86053\&partnerID=40\&md5=ace67a6a95eb6aa6e09536d2212b7e95}, author = {Guzzini, E. and Iacobucci, D.} }