The complexity of innovation processes led to a tremendous growth in the use of external
networks by small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a survey to 137 …

This paper investigates the forces correlated with environmental innovations (EIs)
introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of inter-firm network …

In this paper, we investigate whether firms' engagements in collaboration agreements with
different types of external stakeholders produce complementary effects on the likelihood of …

The achievement of positive Environmental Performance (EP) at national level could
strongly depend on differences in regional features, namely productive specialization …

Although building information modeling (BIM) holds the promise of significantly advancing
the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) market worldwide, its widespread …

This paper contributes to a better understanding of the sources of networking variety in
knowledge-intensive sectors, focusing on molecular biotechnology and software for …

The adoption and diffusion of environmental innovations (EIs) is crucial to greening the
economy and achieving win–win environmental/economic gains. A large and increasing …

This paper exploits a dataset of 555 industrial firms, located in the Emilia Romagna region in
2006–2008, to analyse complementarity in ecoinnovation (EI) and to test the role of firm …

In this paper we test an adapted EKC hypothesis to verify the relationship between
'environmental efficiency'(namely emissions per unit of value added) and labour productivity …

Many case studies highlight a positive relationship between regions' innovation
performance and the intensity of collaboration among regional organizations. However, few …