Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Fabio Campanini		
Author-X-Name-First: Fabio
Author-X-Name-Last: Campanini
Author-Email: fabio.campanini@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Serena Costa
Author-X-Name-First: Serena
Author-X-Name-Last: Costa
Author-Email: serena.costa@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Paolo Rizzi
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Rizzi
Author-Email: paolo.rizzi@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: The Machine Tool Industry in Italy: Industrial Innovations and Performances
Abstract: The machine tool industry has a leading role in the Italian manufacturing system, above all in Northern Italy.
This industrial branch is a strategic intermediate point in many manufacture dies, with an average innovation
intensity higher than that of many other industrial branches. This work investigates if and in which way the
innovation and the R&D processes carried out in the sector firms affect their productivity. We built a significant
sample, which answered a questionnaire based on the CIS (Community Innovation Survey). Also a regional
geographic dimension is used, to test the presence of specific local effects. Results show a positive and strong
contribution from human capital to productivity, while, in the short term, physical capital have a negative
impact, a result probably influenced by the economic crisis.
Length: 26 pages
Creation-Date: 2013-05
Publication-Status: Published in Review of Economics, Month aaaa, pages nn1-nn2
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises1391.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2013
Number: dises1391
Classification-JEL: L1; L64; O3.
Keywords: Innovation; Machine tool industry; Firm productivity; Regions.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1391