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Claudio Fassio

2013

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The Heterogeneity Of Knowledge And The Academic Mode Of Knowledge Governance: Italian Evidence In The First Part Of The 20th Century, Claudio Fassio, Cristiano Antonelli Jan 2013

The Heterogeneity Of Knowledge And The Academic Mode Of Knowledge Governance: Italian Evidence In The First Part Of The 20th Century, Claudio Fassio, Cristiano Antonelli

Claudio Fassio

The academic system is an effective mechanism of knowledge governance that remedies to markets failure in the generation and dissemination of knowledge. The heterogeneity of academic knowledge with respect to economic growth however calls attention of the composition of knowledge generated by the academic system. This paper contributes the large literature on the university industry relations with the identification of the heterogeneity of academic knowledge with respect to economic growth and the analysis of its implication for the working of the academic mode of knowledge governance. It provides unique historic evidence on the differentiated effects of academic spillovers as proxied …


The Cliometrics Of Academic Chairs. Scientific Knowledge And Economic Growth: The Evidence Across The Italian Regions 1900-1959, Claudio Fassio, Cristiano Antonelli Jan 2013

The Cliometrics Of Academic Chairs. Scientific Knowledge And Economic Growth: The Evidence Across The Italian Regions 1900-1959, Claudio Fassio, Cristiano Antonelli

Claudio Fassio

The paper elaborates and tests two hypotheses. First, that knowledge is not a homogeneous activity, but rather a bundle of highly differentiated disciplines that have different characteristics, both in terms of generation and exploitation, that bear a differentiated impact on economic growth. Advances in scientific knowledge that can be converted into technological knowledge with high levels of fungibility, appropriability, cumulability and complementarity have a higher chance to affect economic growth. Second, that academic chairs are a reliable indicator of the amount and types of knowledge being generated by the academic system. Hence the analysis of the evolution of the academic …


Innovation And Human Capital: Age, Skills And Ethnicity. A Study On France, Germany And Uk, Claudio Fassio, Fabio Montobbio, Alessandra Venturini Jan 2013

Innovation And Human Capital: Age, Skills And Ethnicity. A Study On France, Germany And Uk, Claudio Fassio, Fabio Montobbio, Alessandra Venturini

Claudio Fassio

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