Publications
"Social Networks: the new innovation protagonists", a guidebook for Italian companies
The publication on Social Innovation “Social Networks: the new innovation protagonists, a guidebook for Italian companies” aims at describing the evolution of Social Networks and their impact in the Society and in the business world.
The book presents this on-going change in 4 main chapters, providing a description of the evolution of the Social Networks and their impact on Society and the business world. It also includes a presentation of 12 original and recent case studies of international small and medium–size companies having developed an innovative approach to transform their business through the valorization of Social Networks.
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"Promoting the benefits of greater knowledge and effective management of IP in European SMEs & Intermediaries"
The paper presents the results of a major European initiative co-funded by the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) of the European Commission: "IPeuropAware-IP Awareness and Enforcement: Modular Actions for SMEs, carried out by near to 30 national Intellectual Property (IP) offices and international organizations whose aim is to improve the protection, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) in European SMEs. The project, funded by DG ENTR of the European Commission and managed by the Executive Agency for the Executive Agency for the Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI), is coordinated by the University of Alicante (Spain).
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"Plan and manage a science park in the Mediterranean", a guidebook for decision makers
Support policies increasingly depend on the capacity of technology parks to contribute to the development of entrepreneurship, to participate in cluster initiatives, to generate spillover effects, and more generally to enhance the regional culture of innovation. For policy makers, parks and technopoles are not to be developed for their own sake but must contribute to the building of learning regions and knowledge-based territorial economies. According to many authors, cross-fertilization is at the heart of technopole projects, bringing together, within the same location, of high-technology activities, research centers, companies, universities, and financial institutions.
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"TrendChart Annual Country Reports for Italy"
The INNO-Policy TrendChart provides independent analyses of major innovation policy trends at national and regional levels across the EU-27 and other countries in the Mediterranean region, North America and Asia. The chart improves the basis for decision making in innovation policy by identifying examples of good practice.
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“Transfer East”, Government to Business. Good Practice Handbook
The handbook is the main outcome of the engineering exercise within the “Transfer East” European funded project on the 9 Government to Business good practices, which have been transferred to 10 public administrations in five different New Member States: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.
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"Complementarities between Regional, National and EU Support Instruments"
The need to enhance complementarities in innovation policy across Community, national and regional levels stems from an increasing segmentation and integration of markets, value networks and technologies. These processes call for better coordination of innovation policy not only between countries but also across vertical linkages, i.e. between community, countries and regions. This study explores the potential for vertical cooperation and outlines methods of vertical coordination in innovation policy and attempts to answer on questions of both where and how of vertical cooperation.
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"Exploratory Team report on High-Growth Innovative SMEs"
Small and Medium Sized enterprises are the backbone of all economies and are the key source of economic growth, dynamism and flexibility in advanced industrialized countries, as well as in emerging and developing economies. Within the SME universe, there is a group that has received the greatest attention over the past years, the high-growth SMEs or “gazelles”.
Despite the attention devoted to growth and performance, there is little literature on high-growth SMEs, gazelles, and research is not developed and the is a lack of policy initiatives designed for them.
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"Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres' Effective Marketing Practices" (1st Edition)
Benchmarking, the act of systematically defining a business' best procedures, systems and practices, has become a useful tool for organisations whishing to continuously improve their products or services. By developing a tailor-made methodology and through the use of real case studies, "Benchmarking the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices" shows how the Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs) are using benchmarking to drive performance improvements in the Network.
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"Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres' Effective Marketing Practices" (2nd Edition)
After the success of the first edition, the second edition of “Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices” has been released. The second edition of the book contains new cases (totalling 13 benchmarks), updated information and the illustration of the implementation, aimed at transferring benchmarked practices to eight IRCs.
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Russian Edition of "Benchmarking: the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices"© European Communities, 2004
Benchmarking, the act of systematically defining a business' best procedures, systems and practices, has become a useful tool for organisations whishing to continuously improve their products or services. By developing a tailor-made methodology and through the use of real case studies, "Benchmarking the Search for Innovation Relay Centres’ Effective Marketing Practices" shows how the Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs) are using benchmarking to drive performance improvements in the Network.
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Reinventing the IRC Network through Benchmarking
Creating intermediates as sources of innovation is the best way to pool resources, to help create and share externalities, to generate economies of scope and agglomeration effects. To be attractive enough to companies, many intermediates must however learn how to build a quasi-corporate culture. In this spirit, this book attempts to draw the good business practices from successful Innovation Relay Centres (ICRs). Benchmarking IRC organisational effectiveness is a good resource for building strong technology partnerships.
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"Regional RTD & Innovation Policies and Practices"
Moving from industrial to knowledge society entails creating new development models based on innovation and integration of research, education and industry, which represent he edges of the “knowledge triangle”. Particularly, the integration of regional governments, industries and academic or research institutions is increasingly gaining ground, thus favouring the development of innovation processes.
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"Best Practices, a benchmarking exercise to improve the National Contact Point services"
The integration of the scientific communities of the New Member States and Candidate Countries into the European Research Area is real a challenge. One approach has been to analyse how to improve the National Contact Points (NCPs) services provided to the scientific communities in our respective countries through a benchmarking exercise.
