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Forewords / Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano -- Introduction / Gilberto Antonelli and Giancarlo Campri -- Conceptualizing the idea of smart development -- Smart specialization -- Issues and challenges for smart specialisation / Riccardo Leoncini -- Smart specialization and models of capitalism / Luca Cattani and Giovanni Guidetti -- Smart specialization and supply side outcomes in an industrial policy perspective / Patrizio Bianchi and Silvano Bertini -- Smart city -- Issues and challenges for smart cities / Nicola De Liso and Luca Zamparini -- Human capital and new geography of jobs / Luca Cattani, Giovanni Guidetti and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart cities, social goods and demand side outcomes in a regional policy perspective / Gilberto Antonelli -- Smart development -- Smart development, local production systems and related variety / Gilberto Antonelli and Riccardo Leoncini -- Smart development as a criss-crossed outcome of smart specialization and smart city strategies / Gilberto Antonelli -- Measuring and applying smart local development -- Smartness indicators in the European urban framework / Dorel Nicolae Manitiu and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart development and smart utilities : an international comparison / Andrea Paliani, Giuseppe Cappiello and Gianluca Di Pasquale -- Smart development in regional economies : the specificities of soutern italy in the european frame / Cosimo Casilli, Valentino Moretto and Giulio Pedrini -- Smart development in regional economies. the emilia-romagna region in the european frame / Silvano Bertini -- Smart development in regional economies : the lombardy region in the european frame / Armando De Crinito, Marco Baccan, Alina Candu, Enza Cristofaro and Giuseppe Cappiello -- Governing smart local development -- Government and governance for smart development in smart communities / Gilberto Antonelli and Nicola De Liso -- Smartness and collective learning processes : the enabling roles of the public utilities / Alessandro Camilleri and Marco Ruffino -- Urban mobility in a smart development perspective / Luca Zamparini -- Conclusion / Stefano Venier -- Appendix -- Author index -- Subject index

The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both from the research and policy angles. To date, the focus in smart specialization has been on what regions as a whole can do to bring about innovation, but it hasn't necessarily addressed the role cities play within the field. This book aims to address that gap, drawing together a team of leading contributors, to illustrate this process with particular focus on cities. Smart Development in Smart Communities discusses the cross-fertilization between smart specialization and cities in fostering smart development and its interactions with the macro-, micro- and meso-economic framework, from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Specific topics covered by the book include: human capital formation and utilization; centralized/decentralized industrial policies; innovation policies; collective learning; and the role of public utilities in sustaining smart development processes. This book tackles some of the most important questions that must be faced when investigating how structural change and innovation processes are shaping local and global economic development. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the area of Development Economics, Urban Studies and Public Management.

Cover -- Occhiello -- Indice -- Prefazione alla quarta edizione -- Introduzione -- 1 Il consumatore e la domanda di mercato -- 2 Impresa e teoria della produzione -- 3 I mercati dei beni e dei fattori produttivi in concorrenza perfetta -- 4 I fallimenti di mercato -- 5 Mercati non concorrenziali -- 6 Economia del benessere -- 7 Le principali variabili macroeconomiche e la contabilità nazionale -- 8 Il mercato dei beni e servizi e la determinazione del PIL di equilibrio -- 9 Il modello IS-LM -- 10 Modello di domanda aggregata e offerta aggregata (AD-AS) -- 11 Salario e occupazione nel modello di concorrenza imperfetta -- 12 I sistemi macroeconomici aperti -- 13 Il commercio internazionale -- Volumi pubblicati nuovo formato.

Basing on a job competition approach, in this paper we provide a labour demand-oriented measure of human capital as defined by the amount of specific skills a firm generates through work-based training (WBT) activities. By merging three rich firm-level datasets, we estimate the impact of a set of variables that are supposed to affect both the propensity to invest in WBT and the intensity of training within the Italian manufacturing industry over the period 2001-2005.The estimates show that the effects of innovation on WBT is higher when the introduction of new technologies is supported by organizational innovations. When looking at the nature of WBT, we investigate the different determinants of the firms' propensity to provide both in-house and outside training. Finally, we estimate training intensity in terms, respectively, of the number of training activities provided, private and total training costs and the share of trainees.

AbstractThe article analyses the role of institutions in the determination of income inequality in a sample of OECD countries. Basing on the seminal approach by Amable, the article discusses the theoretical definition of model of capitalism. The basic idea is that each model of capitalism is defined by the cobweb of complementary relationships established among different institutions. Using a set of statistical indicators of the operation of institutions in two different years, 1995 and 2010, the empirical analysis points out five models of capitalism and exhibits how their composition has changed in this lapse of 15 years. In the following sections of the article, we investigate the role played by the model of capitalism in the determination of income distribution, measured through a standard Gini index. After controlling for a set of variables, the econometric evidence shows that different models of capitalism present significantly different levels of income inequality.

After a synthetic presentation of the state of poverty and inequality in the world and the contradictions incurred by economic theory in this field after decades of globalization and in the midst of a persisting global crisis, in paragraphs 2. and 3. we outline the rational for our theoretical analysis, underlining two main aspects. First of all, in paragraph 2. we recall the reasons which makes inequality a multidimensional phenomenon, while in paragraph 3. we explore the reasons why the models of capitalism theory is relevant for studying multidimensional inequality. These paragraphs emphasise that inequality is a multidimensional and cumulative phenomenon and it should not be conceived only as the result of the processes of personal and functional distribution of income and wealth, which even by themselves are intrinsically multidimensional. The basic idea is that institutions, the cobweb of relations among them and their interaction with the economic structure define the model of capitalism which characterises a specific country and this, in turn, affects the level and the dynamics of inequality. This approach is consistent with the sociological approach by Rehbein and Souza (2014), based on the analytical framework developed by Pierre Bourdieu. In paragraph 4. we outline the rational for our empirical analysis, applying the notion of institutional complementarity and examining the relationship between institutional complementarity, models of capitalism and inequality. Besides, refining Amable's analysis (2003), we provide empirical evidence on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and models of capitalism. Additionally, basing on cluster analysis, we identify six different models of capitalism in a sample of OECD countries, provide preliminary evidence on the different level of inequality which characterises each model and suggest that no evidence supports of the idea that a single model of capitalism is taking shape in this sphere in EU. In paragraph 5. we give some hints about issues in search for a new interpretation capable to fasten together the process of increasing inequality, the notion of symbolic violence and the models of capitalism theory. In the last paragraph we focus on conclusions useful for carrying on our research agenda.