Anna Maria FERRAGINA | Projects

By means of a knowledge production function we estimate the green tech innovation capabilities of highly inventive multinational enterprises (MNEs). We explore the sensitivity of this relationship to the strength of environmental protection enforcement (EPE) across the MNEs R&D subsidiaries. We argue that MNE environmental innovative performance will be enhanced when the firmâ¿¿s patent and R&D acti

This project explores the hypothesis that KIBS have differential impacts on regional innovation capacity depending on the stage of technology life-cycle, and of the attending know-how. The empirical analysis focuses on Italian regions (NUTS 2) over the period 2000-2017. Using patent data to identify the life-cycle stages (from emergence to maturity) and employment data to compute the location quot

A first target of the analysis would be to evaluate the role of green innovation as a potential driver of green competitiveness in the world trade. While most previous research has focused on exploring separately the drivers of green trade (Can et al., 2021) and those of green innovation (Aboelmaged and Hashem, 2019), we will concentrate on how useful the interaction between the two can be in maki

The idea of this project is to provide a spatial analysis of the impact of different types of agglomeration economies (urbanisation economies, Marshallian economies of specialisation, Hirschman linkages between KIBs and their users both in service and Manufacturing, and Jacobian economies) on the sectoral specialization and variety of KIBS across the Italian NUTS3 regions (provinces) from 2012 to

This study aims to assess the relevance of migrants' job position in fostering Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The aim of our analysis is to see whether a higher share of migrants with management skills in each country of destination promote FDI towards migrant¿s country of origin and whether share of migrants in non-qualified positions has a negative impact on these FDI decisions. Following the