Regions, innovation systems, and the North-South divide in Italy

Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 19
Published: Apr 14, 2019
Abstract
Innovation systems are not bound by administrative or political boundaries. Using information theory, we measure innovation-systemness as synergy among size-classes, postal addresses, and technological classes (NACE-codes) of firm-level data collected by Statistics Italy at different scales. Italy is organized in twenty regions, but there is also a traditional divide between the North and the South of the country. At which levels is how much...
Paper Details
Title
Regions, innovation systems, and the North-South divide in Italy
Published Date
Apr 14, 2019
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
19
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