Firms' perceptions of barriers to innovation and resilience: the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia during the crisis

Iammarino, Simona ORCID: 0000-0001-9450-1700, Sodano, Tiziana and Vittorino, Giovanni (2020) Firms' perceptions of barriers to innovation and resilience: the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia during the crisis. Scienze Regionali: Italian Journal of Regional Science. pp. 25-54. ISSN 1720-3929

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Abstract

This paper connects the literature on obstacles to innovation to the concept of regional economic resilience by empirically assessing the relationship between the intensity of firms’ engagement in innovative activities and self-reported obstacles to innovation during the unfolding of the latest economic and financial downturn. The analysis is grounded on a unique dataset on firm-level accounting data (CAD) and information from two waves (2008-10 and 2010-12) of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for a representative sample of firms in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The main results support the existence of severe deterring barriers in the region, and suggest that during the economic and financial crisis after 2008 firms’ uncertainty about the market demand became dominant.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1720-3929
Additional Information:	© 2020 Società editrice il Mulino
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DG Italy H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2020 12:12
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2024 20:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103281

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