The paper analyzes some generic features of industrial dynamics whereby innovative change is carried, stochastically, by new entrants. Relying on the formal representation suggested in Winter, S.G., Kaniovski, Y.M., Dosi, G., 1997. A Baseline Model of Industry Evolution. [Interim Report IR-97-013/March, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria], it studies both t...

Evolution of Knowledge Bases (KBs) consists of incorporating new information in an existing KB. Previous studies assume that the new information should be fully trusted and thus completely incorporated in the old knowledge. We suggest a setting where the new knowledge can be partially trusted and develop model-based approaches (MBAs) to KB evolution that rely on this assumption. Under MBAs the ...

The role of management consulting in Italy has progressively changed during the last two decades, as did the requirements from the clients. Until the eighties Italian firms did not have in-house capabilities to define a full fledged corporate strategy. Entrepreneurs needed to be supported and guided by experts. Those experts were mainly consultants. Nowadays, with markets changing at breathtaki...

Character of knowledge management conducted in industrial clusters is different from entity of enterpresis and socail public deparment because of distinction in management objection. Many scholars was attracted to reseach knowledge management for enterprises, knowledge management in industrial clusters lack durable study in depth. This paper seeks to lay out an organizational foundation to a th...

During a software project’s lifetime, the software goes through many changes, as components are added, removed and modified to fix bugs and add new features. This paper is intended as a lightweight introduction to some of the issues arising from an ‘archaeological’ investigation of software evolution. We use our own work to look at some of the challenges faced, techniques used, findings obtaine...

This paper is to be presented at the Symposium The Economics of Regional Monetary Integration, organized by the Fraser Institute an the Kiel Institute of the World Economy, to be held at the Kiel Institute, September 24-26, 2006. The paper draws heavily on the analysis found in my study: “The Economics of Monetary Unions: Traditional and New”, Chapter 4 in Regional Economic Integration, a book ...

(2013). The importance of risk tolerance and knowledge when considering the evolution of inequity responses across the primates.

Requirements Evolution represents one of the major problems in developing computer-based systems. Current practice in Requirement Engineering relies on process-oriented methodologies, which lack of product features. The resulting scenario then is a collection of general methodologies, which do not take into account product features that may enhance our ability in monitoring and controlling Requ...

Fast growth by a firm often can lead to conflict with its competitors over market shares. This conflict impacts on the growth rate of the firm as well as on industry structure. The nature of these impacts depends on the competitive strategies adopted by the firm and its competitors. Alternative patterns of strategies are identified and analyzed, including patterns associated with Schumpeter’s t...