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Papers by Paolo Landoni
The annals of regional science, Apr 24, 2024
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2010
Industry and Innovation, Jan 2, 2016
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Sep 26, 2017
ABSTRACT Innovation is often the result of collaborative efforts, but many firms lack skills and ... more ABSTRACT Innovation is often the result of collaborative efforts, but many firms lack skills and resources to engage in collaborations. Therefore, policy-makers have developed a variety of measures and programmes to increase interaction and favour partnerships between organisations. They range from innovation vouchers, meant to provide SMEs with external knowledge and opportunities for business partnerships (mostly dyadic), to consortia for R&D, marketing or production (small group of participants), to cluster initiatives involving many geographically concentrated organisations. For each of these main forms, we carried out a multiple-case study research. This paper is a meta-study (specifically a meta-synthesis) of previous pieces of research conducted by mostly the same authors. Here, we identify the commonalities of the forms of collaboration that are conducive to innovation, how to govern them and discuss the policy instruments that foster collaboration while reducing opportunistic behaviours.
Research Policy, Oct 1, 2014
Journal of Knowledge Management, Apr 28, 2023
Research for development, Nov 16, 2019
How can social innovation projects evolve into organizations with long-term economic sustainabili... more How can social innovation projects evolve into organizations with long-term economic sustainability? How can organizations aiming for a triple bottom line become economically sustainable in the long run? Can these organizations use the tools and methods used by for-profit organizations to describe their business model? This chapter starts off with an in-depth analysis of the existing literature on business models of for-profit organizations to understand if there is a need for a sustainability model for the triple bottom line and nonprofit organizations. The most widespread tool to represent the business models for for-profit organizations is described and illustrated in this chapter. The literature review shows that the current tools that aim to describe business models for for-profit organizations focus only on financial and economic objectives, whereas triple bottom line organizations and social innovation projects additionally pursue social and environmental objectives, which need to be considered when designing and defining the activities, resources, and stakeholders of the organization
International journal of competitiveness, 2018
International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2007
ABSTRACT Regional foresight is receiving a fast growing attention and interest from public policy... more ABSTRACT Regional foresight is receiving a fast growing attention and interest from public policy makers and other regional stakeholders. Until recently, regional foresight has been implemented in most cases as a scaling down of national studies, by applying approaches and methods of national foresight to specific regional themes. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the new regional foresight methodology that the authors have developed when carrying out the RISE (Research, Innovation, Economical Development) project under the sponsorship of the government of Lombardy Region. This methodology basically aggregates and integrates a set of indicators (qualitative and quantitative) defined in order to evaluate the attractiveness of a technology for the long term competitiveness of the main sectors of the regional manufactoring industry and the feasibility for the regional technical and scientific system to develop this technology. In this way, it was possible to provide a sound basis for S&T policy making.
Research for development, Nov 16, 2019
The process to develop a Sustainability Model Canvas described in the previous chapter was applie... more The process to develop a Sustainability Model Canvas described in the previous chapter was applied to three different social innovation projects of the CampUs program: Plug Social TV, Shared Garden, and Adaptable Self-Managed Itinerant Pavilion (PAAI in Italian). In this chapter, we illustrate the canvases developed for these social innovation projects and the processes followed to obtain these results. Moreover, we describe the main issues which emerged from the first attempts to identify value propositions, customer segments, and revenue streams leading up to the final Sustainability Model Canvas defined for each project. The workshops and the processes described in this chapter have helped the three social innovation projects to define their economic sustainability path.
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 2006
ABSTRACT The research and innovation system is undergoing a rapid and fundamental change alternat... more ABSTRACT The research and innovation system is undergoing a rapid and fundamental change alternately described by many authors. In particular, universities and public research centres are required to play a new role in socio‐economic development. In this renewing context, regions must re‐think and innovate their policies. One of these new policies may be the development and the use of evaluation systems of research and technology transfer activities of universities and public research organisations. This work argues that a central role of such systems is the diffusion of information about the capabilities, performances and activities of regional research and technology transfer centres, in order to favour the development of a local market for research with improved quality of supply and a more informed demand. The peculiar requirements of these instruments are discussed on the basis of the evaluation system developed by the Lombardy region (Italy).
R & D Management, Dec 22, 2015
International Journal of Technology Management, 2011
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, May 1, 2013
ABSTRACT Although many authors have analysed the role and the efficiency of science parks, only a... more ABSTRACT Although many authors have analysed the role and the efficiency of science parks, only a few contributions have analysed national science park systems (SPSs) as a whole. Because of the lack of data, evidence regarding the performance of science parks in a nation is very limited and there is a lack of comparisons between different systems. This paper aims to introduce a simple framework to analyse SPSs and to show its use for comparing the state of development and the main differences of two or more SPSs. Its application to the Italian and Spanish systems shows that science parks play a more important role in Spain than in Italy. The main causes of these differences are argued to be (i) the presence of a set of coherent and particular policies which favour science parks in Spain and (ii) the internal factors of the Spanish science park system, including business models of the science parks and the role of the national association.
Journal of Urban Technology, Apr 6, 2022
Guerini e associati eBooks, 2007
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2011
The annals of regional science, Apr 24, 2024
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2010
Industry and Innovation, Jan 2, 2016
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Sep 26, 2017
ABSTRACT Innovation is often the result of collaborative efforts, but many firms lack skills and ... more ABSTRACT Innovation is often the result of collaborative efforts, but many firms lack skills and resources to engage in collaborations. Therefore, policy-makers have developed a variety of measures and programmes to increase interaction and favour partnerships between organisations. They range from innovation vouchers, meant to provide SMEs with external knowledge and opportunities for business partnerships (mostly dyadic), to consortia for R&D, marketing or production (small group of participants), to cluster initiatives involving many geographically concentrated organisations. For each of these main forms, we carried out a multiple-case study research. This paper is a meta-study (specifically a meta-synthesis) of previous pieces of research conducted by mostly the same authors. Here, we identify the commonalities of the forms of collaboration that are conducive to innovation, how to govern them and discuss the policy instruments that foster collaboration while reducing opportunistic behaviours.
Research Policy, Oct 1, 2014
Journal of Knowledge Management, Apr 28, 2023
Research for development, Nov 16, 2019
How can social innovation projects evolve into organizations with long-term economic sustainabili... more How can social innovation projects evolve into organizations with long-term economic sustainability? How can organizations aiming for a triple bottom line become economically sustainable in the long run? Can these organizations use the tools and methods used by for-profit organizations to describe their business model? This chapter starts off with an in-depth analysis of the existing literature on business models of for-profit organizations to understand if there is a need for a sustainability model for the triple bottom line and nonprofit organizations. The most widespread tool to represent the business models for for-profit organizations is described and illustrated in this chapter. The literature review shows that the current tools that aim to describe business models for for-profit organizations focus only on financial and economic objectives, whereas triple bottom line organizations and social innovation projects additionally pursue social and environmental objectives, which need to be considered when designing and defining the activities, resources, and stakeholders of the organization
International journal of competitiveness, 2018
International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2007
ABSTRACT Regional foresight is receiving a fast growing attention and interest from public policy... more ABSTRACT Regional foresight is receiving a fast growing attention and interest from public policy makers and other regional stakeholders. Until recently, regional foresight has been implemented in most cases as a scaling down of national studies, by applying approaches and methods of national foresight to specific regional themes. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the new regional foresight methodology that the authors have developed when carrying out the RISE (Research, Innovation, Economical Development) project under the sponsorship of the government of Lombardy Region. This methodology basically aggregates and integrates a set of indicators (qualitative and quantitative) defined in order to evaluate the attractiveness of a technology for the long term competitiveness of the main sectors of the regional manufactoring industry and the feasibility for the regional technical and scientific system to develop this technology. In this way, it was possible to provide a sound basis for S&T policy making.
Research for development, Nov 16, 2019
The process to develop a Sustainability Model Canvas described in the previous chapter was applie... more The process to develop a Sustainability Model Canvas described in the previous chapter was applied to three different social innovation projects of the CampUs program: Plug Social TV, Shared Garden, and Adaptable Self-Managed Itinerant Pavilion (PAAI in Italian). In this chapter, we illustrate the canvases developed for these social innovation projects and the processes followed to obtain these results. Moreover, we describe the main issues which emerged from the first attempts to identify value propositions, customer segments, and revenue streams leading up to the final Sustainability Model Canvas defined for each project. The workshops and the processes described in this chapter have helped the three social innovation projects to define their economic sustainability path.
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 2006
ABSTRACT The research and innovation system is undergoing a rapid and fundamental change alternat... more ABSTRACT The research and innovation system is undergoing a rapid and fundamental change alternately described by many authors. In particular, universities and public research centres are required to play a new role in socio‐economic development. In this renewing context, regions must re‐think and innovate their policies. One of these new policies may be the development and the use of evaluation systems of research and technology transfer activities of universities and public research organisations. This work argues that a central role of such systems is the diffusion of information about the capabilities, performances and activities of regional research and technology transfer centres, in order to favour the development of a local market for research with improved quality of supply and a more informed demand. The peculiar requirements of these instruments are discussed on the basis of the evaluation system developed by the Lombardy region (Italy).
R & D Management, Dec 22, 2015
International Journal of Technology Management, 2011
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, May 1, 2013
ABSTRACT Although many authors have analysed the role and the efficiency of science parks, only a... more ABSTRACT Although many authors have analysed the role and the efficiency of science parks, only a few contributions have analysed national science park systems (SPSs) as a whole. Because of the lack of data, evidence regarding the performance of science parks in a nation is very limited and there is a lack of comparisons between different systems. This paper aims to introduce a simple framework to analyse SPSs and to show its use for comparing the state of development and the main differences of two or more SPSs. Its application to the Italian and Spanish systems shows that science parks play a more important role in Spain than in Italy. The main causes of these differences are argued to be (i) the presence of a set of coherent and particular policies which favour science parks in Spain and (ii) the internal factors of the Spanish science park system, including business models of the science parks and the role of the national association.
Journal of Urban Technology, Apr 6, 2022
Guerini e associati eBooks, 2007
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2011