Cooperazione tra imprese e performance innovativa. Uno studio sulle imprese manifatturiere italiane

Abstract

The aim of this PhD dissertation is the theoretical and empirical study of the relationship between cooperation and innovation. In particular, it is divided into three chapters. The first presents a literature review and highlights the importance of cooperation and the different forms in which it is expressed, focusing on its impact in terms of innovation and eco-innovation and dwelling on a specific form of cooperation, the Italian network contract. The second and third chapters contain two empirical analyses using an unbalanced panel of 245,059 Italian manufacturing firms over the 2010-2020 period. This dataset is the result of combining three different data sources: Bureau Van Dijk's Orbis Intellectual Property, which contains data on patents registered with the European Patent Office (EPO); Bureau Van Dijk's AIDA, which contains detailed financial information on firms' balance sheets; InfoCamere, which contains data on network contracts entered into by firms.