Innovative start-ups play a crucial role in fostering innovation and driving economic growth while enhancing technological competitiveness. In Italy, the emergence of these start-ups has significantly influenced the landscape of economic development and technological advancement, acting as a key engine for generating and integrating knowledge into new products and services. This introduction sets the stage […]
Knowledge of the Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors is the subject of increasing interest in national and international institutions. Within the banking sector, there is a growing awareness of the need to integrate the non-financial information arising to ESG factors knowledge, into strategies, processes, and financial instruments to generate long-term value. ESG are increasingly […]
This paper investigates heterogeneity in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of a sample of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) firms actively operating in Italy over the period 2012-2018. Business service industries can be defined as KIBS if they are private sector organizations that offer specialist professional, consultancy, and outsourcing services to other organization relying heavily on professional […]
Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are private enterprises or organizations mainly concerned with providing knowledge-intensive inputs to the business processes of other organizations, including private and public sector clients, that rely heavily on professional knowledge and which involve economic activities intended to result in the creation, accumulation or dissemination of knowledge. KIBS firms, such as […]
The purpose of this paper is to shed a fresh light on cognitive landscapes in which humans and their organizations learn, decide, operate and improve their creative circles. According to Berthoz, human brain manages the complexity of an environment, by creating “virtual worlds” and making “complex simplifications” (defined as simplexity). Essential parts of this process […]