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"Patent portfolios and firms’ technological choices"

In many industrial sectors, firms amass large patent portfolios to reinforce their bargaining position with competitors.In a context where patents have a pure strategic nature, Stefano Comino from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine and Fabio M. Manenti from the

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"Patent portfolios and firms’ technological choices"

In many industrial sectors, firms amass large patent portfolios to reinforce their bargaining position with competitors.In a context where patents have a pure strategic nature, Stefano Comino from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine and Fabio M. Manenti from the

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"The technological acquisitions paradox in the beauty industry"

In this paper, Silvia Rita Sedita, Fiorenza Belussi and Ivan De Noni from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Roberta Apa from the University of Milan, offer an original perspective of analysis on how technological acquisitions and knowledge recombination shape

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"Virtual water and the inequality in water content of consumption"

Countries exporting agricultural goods are relatively abundant in the combined availability of water and arable land but, in absolute terms, scarce in capital and not richer in water in comparison to more developed ones. In this paper, published in Environment and Development Economics, Mohamad

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"Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy"

In their recent publication, Roberto Antonietti (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova), Luca Cattani (GSSI, University of Bologna), Francesca Gambarotto (FISPPA, University of Padova) and Giulio Pedrini (Kore University of Enna), analyse the relationship between the endowment

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