Lucia Cusmano

Unveiling the Texture of a European Research Area: Emergence of Oligarchic Networks under EU Framework Programmes

Stefano Breschi, Lucia Cusmano

The paper provides a contribution to the recent debate about targets and effectivenessof network policies at the EU level, by presenting a detailed analysis of the large R&D network that has emerged...

Globalisation of production and innovation: how outsourcing is reshaping an advanced manufacturing area.

Lucia Cusmano, Maria Luisa Mancusi, Andrea Morrison

Pervasive outsourcing is transforming business models and productive relations in advanced manufacturing areas. In particular, the international dimension of outsourcing, off-shoring, has been...

Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing: An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data

Lucia Cusmano, Maria Luisa Mancasi, Andrea Morrison

The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level...

Governance and co-ordination of distributed innovation processes: patterns of R&D co-operation in the upstream petroleum industry

Virginia Acha, Lucia Cusmano

Increasingly the firm meets limits to its reach over the breadth of technologies and capabilities that are needed to innovate. Empirical study has shown that innovation processes are distributed...

Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing: An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data.

Lucia Cusmano, Maria Luisa Mancusi, Andrea Morrison

The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level...

Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D: the role of relational research capacity

Lucia Cusmano

Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies....

CATCHING-UP TRAJECTORIES IN THE WINE SECTOR: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHILE, ITALY AND SOUTH AFRICA

Cusmano, Lucia, Morrison, Andrea, Rabellotti, Roberta

From a development perspective an investigation of the changes that have occurred in the wine industry is of particular interest because it provides evidence on how emerging economies have been able...

Innovation and the geographical and organisational dimensions of outsourcing: Evidence from Italian firm-level data

Cusmano, Lucia, Mancusi, Maria Luisa, Morrison, Andrea

The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level...