The role of venture capital funds in financing innovation in Italy. Constraints and challenges for innovative small firms

In the last few years there have been new concepts about innovation and the introduction of a new concept known as the open innovation model. This model is characterised by a variety of actors and new interactions between them. From this perspective, innovation involves research systems, production systems, and governmental/institutional systems. In the innovation process and in the process of transferring technology to businesses, an important...