@article {647, title = {State of the art on the Nexus between sustainability, fashion industry and sustainable business model}, journal = {Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy}, volume = {32}, year = {2023}, pages = {100968}, abstract = {The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally impactful. It is estimated that about 9\% of greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to this industry. It also turns out to be a highly resource-consuming industry with a rather low recycling rate. With this in mind, the authors wanted to further research the issue of sustainability in fashion. This was done with two main purposes: to update the literature to investigate the latest scientific contributions, to foster their application in sustainable business models; and to help define the state of the art on the topic by investigating the application of sustainable best practices in the market. The study is intended as a basis for future work that will focus on the topic of fashion sustainability and to support the adoption of sustainable business models by companies. This study analyses the fashion industry, particularly the textile, footwear, and leather industries, by searching the scientific literature and business cases for the current state of the art on recent best practices in process, product, and business strategies that have a positive impact on industry sustainability. A systematic literature review and business case research was conducted to identify best practices and gaps on areas of the fashion industry that can be catalysts for change toward a circular economy system based on sustainable business models. Policies and possible solutions to environmental problems related to the fashion industry were also considered. The study showed that there are many technologies, best practices and innovations that aim to make the fashion industry less impactful and, most importantly, circular. Therefore, some representative results for each of the three areas investigated are explored in depth, keeping in mind that there are the companies and sectors involved have sometimes unique peculiarities and characteristics, so it is not possible to have results equally applicable to each business model.}, keywords = {Best practice, Circular economy, Fashion, Sustainable business model}, issn = {2352-5541}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2023.100968}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352554123000025}, author = {Caterina DePonte and Marco Ciro Liscio and Paolo Sospiro} } @article {598, title = {Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: a first empirical assessment}, journal = {Papers in Regional Science}, volume = {99}, year = {2020}, pages = {405-425}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd}, abstract = {Smart Specialisation Strategy required regional authorities to identify technological domains where to concentrate investment in R\&D and innovation. Their choices should originate from an analysis of regional strengths, aiming to identify those domains with the greatest potential for innovation and diversification. This paper aim to assess the degree of relatedness between chosen technological domains. We use patent data to categorize technological domains and the revealed associations methodology to measure their degree of relatedness. We find that the choices made by Italian regions show a significant higher relatedness as compared to a random choice, though with notable exceptions. {\textcopyright} 2019 The Author(s). Papers in Regional Science {\textcopyright} 2019 RSAI}, keywords = {assessment method, development strategy, Innovation, policy implementation, regional development, specialization, technology policy}, issn = {10568190}, doi = {10.1111/pirs.12492}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85076927157\&doi=10.1111\%2fpirs.12492\&partnerID=40\&md5=0915eca9a188b2df44da9945d6c2c4bd}, author = {D{\textquoteright}Adda, D. and Iacobucci, D. and Palloni, R.} } @article {596, title = {Bank foundations, social capital and the growth of Italian provinces}, journal = {Regional Studies}, volume = {53}, year = {2019}, pages = {231-244}, publisher = {Routledge}, abstract = {

The funding role of bank foundations in the Italian economy, especially to the non-profit sector, significantly increased over the last 25 years. This paper constructs a novel measure of social capital at the provincial level that explicitly takes into account the bank foundations{\textquoteright} sectors of intervention (such as education, public health, and art and culture), together with other traditional aspects of social capital, and then tests the impact of bank foundations on the economic growth of Italian provinces. The findings suggest that the contribution of bank foundations to social capital positively affects the economic growth of provinces. {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} 2018 Regional Studies Association.

}, keywords = {banking, economic growth, economic impact, Italy, regional development, social capital}, issn = {00343404}, doi = {10.1080/00343404.2018.1455971}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044974106\&doi=10.1080\%2f00343404.2018.1455971\&partnerID=40\&md5=a2480a72d8e44fd106375170775215e3}, author = {Calcagnini, G. and Giombini, G. and Perugini, F.} } @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 {595, title = {A Well-Being Indicator for the Italian Provinces}, journal = {Social Indicators Research}, volume = {142}, year = {2019}, pages = {149-177}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, abstract = {

In recent years, a significant number of papers has been published providing alternative measures of progress and well-being to Gross Domestic Product. Most of these papers differs in terms of their theoretical approach as well as their purpose and statistical methodology used to define what well-being is and how to measure it. In this paper, we construct a well-being indicator for the Italian provinces that shows a high degree of heterogeneity not only between the Northern and Southern Italian provinces, but also among adjacent provinces. {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.

}, keywords = {civil society, Gross Domestic Product, Italy, quality of life, socioeconomic indicator, territory}, issn = {03038300}, doi = {10.1007/s11205-018-1888-1}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044543892\&doi=10.1007\%2fs11205-018-1888-1\&partnerID=40\&md5=12e20f4b00963d996888aa47c308a449}, author = {Calcagnini, G. and Perugini, F.} } @article {588, title = {Academic spin-offs{\textquoteright} entrepreneurial teams and performance: a subgroups approach}, journal = {Journal of Technology Transfer}, volume = {43}, year = {2018}, pages = {714-733}, publisher = {Springer New York LLC}, abstract = {

Academic spin-offs{\textquoteright} entrepreneurial teams generally concentrate high levels of research and development experience while they are often found lacking in commercial skills. This prompts the integration of surrogate entrepreneurs (practitioners) but the literature questions the effectiveness of these artificially created teams. We argue that faultline theory applied to this context of different identity-based subgroups in a team can provide important insight, and complement the traditional approaches to top team diversity such as upper echelons theory. Our research compares the impact of the three main possible academic spin-off entrepreneurial team configurations on the two principal success-related tasks, innovation and sales, and considers the role important stakeholders, such as public research institutions and industrial partners, can have. In a sample of 164 academic spin-offs, we show that certain configurations are more suited to certain objectives and that faultline theory does indeed contribute to better our understanding of the entrepreneurial teams{\textquoteright} outcomes. Furthermore, the expectations one might have with regard to the extended entrepreneurial team as a possible remedy for weak core team configurations are not supported by our data. Implications for theory and practice are provided. {\textcopyright} 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

}, keywords = {Academic spin-offs, Commercial performance, Diversity, Entrepreneurial teams, Faultline theory, Industrial research, Innovation, Societies and institutions}, issn = {08929912}, doi = {10.1007/s10961-017-9623-7}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029506376\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10961-017-9623-7\&partnerID=40\&md5=6c0b418a9a68daaec50147776448fdfa}, author = {Ben-Hafa{\"\i}edh, C. and Micozzi, A. and Pattitoni, P.} } @article {565, title = {Self-selection of entrepreneurial firms in thin venture capital markets: Theory and empirical evidence}, journal = {Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal}, year = {2018}, keywords = {Entrepreneurial firms, High-tech entrepreneurship, market thinness, Selection, Venture capital}, issn = {1932-443X}, doi = {10.1002/sej.1280}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sej.1280/abstract}, author = {Bertoni, Fabio and D{\textquoteright}Adda, Diego and Grilli, Luca} } @article {589, title = {What are the trade-offs of academic entrepreneurship? An investigation on the Italian case}, journal = {Journal of Technology Transfer}, volume = {43}, year = {2018}, pages = {198-221}, publisher = {Springer New York LLC}, abstract = {

This study addresses the following research questions: what happens to the propensity to collaborate with other firms, once the researcher creates her own venture? Do her collaborations decrease or do they grow? These questions have been overlooked by the current literature, even though they carry important policy implications. Our key suggestion is that the effectiveness of a technology transfer tool can be better assessed by taking into account the possible crowding-out effects with other channels of knowledge transfer. We do so for Italy, by comparing the behavior of single researchers, before and after the establishment of their own firm, with the behavior of a control group. We assess whether those academics that founded their own firm significantly change their attitude to perform research collaborations with other firms by means of co-publication and co-patenting. We also verify whether creating a firm has an impact on the overall patenting and publication performance. Our results suggest that there is a negative effect on the overall publishing performance, while the patenting activity does not change significantly. Regarding co-publications, our results confirm the existence of a substitution effect between spin-offs and co-publication with firms, while we observe an increase in the case of co-patenting. A closer look at the data, however, suggests that the latter is mainly triggered by the patenting activity that the researcher performs with his or her own company. {\textcopyright} 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

}, keywords = {Academic entrepreneurship, Behavioral research, Economic and social effects, Knowledge management, Patenting activities, Patents and inventions, Policy evaluation, Policy implications, Propensity score matching, Public policy, Publishing, Research collaborations, Spin off, Substitution effect, Technology Transfer}, issn = {08929912}, doi = {10.1007/s10961-016-9482-7}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84968547880\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10961-016-9482-7\&partnerID=40\&md5=2133632f90803ed24d87019494bbaefb}, author = {Barbieri, E. and Rubini, L. and Pollio, C. and Micozzi, A.} } @article {Iacobucci2014107, title = {Designing and implementing a smart specialisation strategy at regional level: Some open questions [Progettazione e implementazione della strategia regionale di specializzazione intelligente: Alcune questioni aperte]}, journal = {Scienze Regionali}, volume = {13}, number = {1}, year = {2014}, note = {cited By 7}, pages = {107-126}, keywords = {Smart Specialization Strategy}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84909958928\&partnerID=40\&md5=f5a3b10789882f7cf3932e230ff68bda}, author = {D. Iacobucci} } @inbook { 11566_83972, title = {Distretti e cluster: agglomerazione, spec{\`\i}alizzazione e variet{\`a}}, booktitle = {Innovazione e trasformazione industriale: la prospettiva dei sistemi di produzione locale italiani}, year = {2012}, pages = {137{\textendash}142}, publisher = {Il Mulino.}, organization = {Il Mulino.}, address = {Bologna}, keywords = {Smart Specialization Strategy, Technology Transfer}, author = {D. Iacobucci} } @inbook { 11566_39408, title = {Diffusione e caratteristiche dei gruppi di piccole e medie imprese nelle aree distrettuali delle Marche}, booktitle = {Diffusione e caratteristiche dei gruppi di piccole e medie imprese nelle aree distrettuali}, year = {2001}, pages = {174{\textendash}237}, publisher = {GIUFFRE{\textquoteright} EDITORE}, organization = {GIUFFRE{\textquoteright} EDITORE}, address = {MILANO}, keywords = {Business Groups , Smart Specialization Strategy}, author = {D. Iacobucci and V. Balloni} } @inbook { 11566_38267, title = {L{\textquoteright}industria italiana dell{\textquoteright}elettrodomestico nel contesto internazionale}, year = {1999}, pages = {1{\textendash}146}, publisher = {G. Giappichelli Editore}, organization = {G. Giappichelli Editore}, address = {Torino}, abstract = {

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