In recent years, the increase in competitiveness, as a result of the economic globalization and crisis, has caused the bankruptcy of many Italian small family businesses working in traditional industries. Meanwhile, family firms that have been working in a perspective of process and product innovation have been able to maintain a durable competitive advantage. In particular, enterprises that ha...

The problem that this chapter tries to solve, is to find the relation between entrepreneurship, university research, and economic growth. The contribution of the present analysis is that, we aim to underline a) the role of university entrepreneurship in economic growth, b) to identify the reasons why this role is underdeveloped in the European South compared to the European North and c) to sugg...

D. Mitsouras, R. V. Mulkern, C. D. Owens, T. Cai, A. G. Whitmore, H. Ersoy, M. S. Conte, M. A. Creager, and F. J. Rybicki Radiology, Harvard Medical School & Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Vascular Surgery, Harvard Medical School & Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Radcliffe Institute, Ha...

A universal model for D=4 spinning particle is constructed with the configuration space chosen as R 3,1 ×S 2 , where the sphere corresponds to the spinning degrees of freedom. The Lagrangian includes all the possible world–line first order invariants of the manifold. Each combination of the four constant parameters entering the La-grangian gives the model, which describes the proper irreducible...

By using the particle probability density we analyze the spin echo attenuation of particles, diffusing in a bounded region. It provides a means to expand a nonuniform spin phase distribution into a series of waves that characterize the geometry and boundary conditions of confinement. Random motion disrupts the initial phase structure created by applied gradients and consequently discords its st...

This paper aims to better understand the development of entrepreneurial competencies to create new ventures within the non-commercial academic environment. We build upon the evolutionary perspective considering where resources come from to help define these competencies and explain their paths of development. The study follows the creation and early growth of four university spin-offs within th...