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"Going beyond Relatedness: Regional Diversification Trajectories and Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in Italian Regions"

 *** In this paper, published in Economic Geography, Roberto Antonietti from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Sandro Montresor from the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), propose a new approach to regional diversification that, going beyond relatedness,

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"Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions"

Europe has witnessed a considerable labour productivity slowdown in recent decades. Many potential explanations have been proposed to address this productivity ‘puzzle’. However, how the quality of local institutions influences labour productivity has been overlooked by the literature.In this paper,

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"Customer participation in new product development: an Industry 4.0 perspective"

*** The use of modern technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, commonly known as “Industry 4.0” (I4.0), is believed to have considerable potential for product customisation. In this paper, published in the European Journal of Innovation Management, Hafiz Muhammad Naeem and Eleonora Di Maria

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"Plotting the Words of Econophysics"

In this paper, published in Entropy, Gianfranco Tusset from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova, applies text mining to 510 articles on econophysics to reconstruct the lexical evolution of the discipline from 1999 to 2020. The traditional areas of research,

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"Carbon emission and firms’ value: Evidence from Europe"

Authors:Salvatore Perdichizzi (dSEA Unipd)Bruno Buchetti (dSEA Unipd)Antonella Francesca Cicchiello (Catholic University of Sacred Heart)Lorenzo Dal Maso (University of Bologna) Growing climate change concerns have intensified focus on corporate CO2 emissions. This study, published in Energy

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