Although the implementation of innovative organizational concepts is considered to be highly important for a company’s competitiveness, so far there has been little research on possible approaches to measure and monitor organizational innovations in largescale surveys. Based on an item-oriented typology of organizational innovations which serves as the precondition for a common understanding, w...

In the last decade ‘sectoral systems of innovation’ have emerged as a new approach in innovation studies. This article makes four contributions to the approach by addressing some open issues. The first contribution is to explicitly incorporate the user side in the analysis. Hence, the unit of analysis is widened from sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems. The second contribu...

The aim of the paper is two-fold. Firstly, it analyses the Italian aid programmes for innovation and technology and, in particular, the role of the regions according to the more recent theoretical framework. The second aim is to match the Italian SMEs needs for technological innovation and the state and regional aid programmes. Two empirical research programmes carried out at Ceris-Cnr (Institu...