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Does innovation drive economic resistance? Not in Italy, at least!
Titolo Rivista: RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA 
Autori/Curatori: Giuseppe Calignano, Luca De Siena 
Anno di pubblicazione:  2020 Fascicolo: 3  Lingua: Inglese 
Numero pagine:  19 P. 31-49 Dimensione file:  163 KB
DOI:  10.3280/RGI2020-003002
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Innovation is considered a key variable for determining regional economic resistance. However, a very few studies aiming to determine the existence of a relationship between innovation and regional resilience - in its various dimensions - have been carried out until now. Our paper aims at narrowing the gap in this regard by looking at the ability of ‘resistance’ showed by the Italian provinces (NUTS3 level) in the 2008-2014 recessionary period. Our statistical analysis reveals that innovation, proxied by employment variation rate in high tech sectors, is not clearly associated with ‘resistance’ at the regional level. Other variables such as diversity of regional economic activities, GDP variation rate, population density and geographical location are actually associated with a higher degree of resistance, while related variety shows an inverse and statistically significant correlation.

L’innovazione e considerata una variabile chiave nel determinare la resistenza economica regionale. Tuttavia, sono stati condotti finora pochissimi studi sulla relazione tra innovazione e resilienza regionale nelle sue varie dimensioni. Il nostro paper mira a colmare questa lacuna indagando la capacita di ‘resistere’ alla crisi economico-finanziaria mostrata delle province italiane (NUTS3) nel periodo di recessione economica che va dal 2008 al 2014. La nostra analisi statistica rivela come l’innovazione, misurata in termini di tasso di variazione di individui impiegati nei settori ad alta tecnologia, sia chiaramente non asso ciata alla ‘resistenza’ a livello regionale. Altre variabili come un’elevata diversita di attivita economiche a livello regionale, il tasso di variazione del Prodotto Interno Lordo, la densita della popolazione e la posizione geografica sono effettivamente associate ad un piu alto grado di resistenza, mentre la related variety mostra una correlazione inversa e statisticamente significativa.
Keywords: Innovazione, resilienza, Related Variety, Unrelated Variety, crisi economica, Italia.

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Giuseppe Calignano, Luca De Siena, L’ innovazione porta alla resistenza economica? Non in Italia, perlomeno! in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 3/2020, pp. 31-49, DOI:10.3280/RGI2020-003002

   

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