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Open Conference Systems, 50th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society

Knowledge Flows and Innovative Performance: Evidence from Italian firms

Martina Aronica, Giuseppe De Luca, Giorgio Fazio, Davide Piacentino

Last modified: 2018-05-31

Abstract

This paper looks at the relationship between innovative inputs and outputs (i.e the Knowledge Production Function) using data from the 2012 Italian Community Innovation Survey. We focus on interrelated economic and econometric issues and, in particular, we mainly consider (i) the choice of innovative inputs and (ii) the barriers to innovation, while accounting for (iii) sample selection issues on the inputs-side and (iv) the endogeneity in the inputs-outputs relationship.

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