Donato Iacobucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donato Iacobucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donato |
| FAMILY NAME | Iacobucci |
| SIGNATURE | IACOBUCCI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marche Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8463-1106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Regional integration or investment attractiveness? FDI dynamics in the Eusair macro-region
The EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR) aims to foster economic integration and regional cooperation among its member countries. Within this framework, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) represents a key channel through which integration processes materialize. However, the extent to which EUSAIR has effectively reshaped FDI dynamics remains underexplored, particularly in terms of the balance between regional integration and external …
Industrial doctorates for regional development: The case of Le Marche Region
Regional technological profiles and collaborations: An empirical analysis of joint patents and EU-funded projects
The aim of this paper is to determine the factors affecting technological collaborations among EU regions, focusing on the role of their technological profiles. We consider the population of EU NUTS2 regions and analyse the inter-regional collaborations in EPO patent applications and in EU projects in the Seventh Framework Programme in the period 2007–2013. We overcome the limitations related to the mono-dimensionality of technological proximity …
Innovation performance in traditional industries: Does proximity to universities matter
Firms operating in traditional industries are characterized by low investment in R&D and little capabilities for autonomous innovation. This situation is changing given the increasing relevance of general purpose technologies, such as ICT. As a result, the innovative performance of firms in these sectors should be more dependent on the interaction with firms and institutions outside their production chain. The aim of this paper is to analyze to w…
Spatial networking and firms’ organization. The case of Italy
The literature on business groups played a significant role in the debate over the evolution of Italian industrial districts. The diffusion of business groups in industrial districts resulted in a hierarchization of productive relationships and increased output concentration. This paper focusses on the presence and the characteristics of business groups in industrial districts. We assume that there are particular features of business groups that …
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: Have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds
This paper evaluates to what extent the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) has changed the allocation of Structural Funds of Italian regions in the programming period 2014–20. Given the novelties introduced by this policy, we expect an increase in the sectoral and technological concentration of funds, a higher share assigned to research and technological development, and a stronger involvement of universities and research centre…
Small firms and bank financing in bad times
Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: A first empirical assessment
Agglomeration, networking and the Great Recession
This paper analyzes how and to what extent firms’ external relations, such as belonging to a local cluster or a business group, affect the probability of firm survival and economic performance after the 2008 Great Recession. Using a large data set of Italian manufacturing companies for the period 2005–12, it was found that belonging to a business group or a local cluster mitigates the selection effect determined by the real and financial shocks, …
Local variety and firm diversification: An evolutionary economic geography perspective
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and how local agglomeration forces-related and unrelated variety-influence firm diversification. Using a large dataset of 5112 Italian manufacturing business groups for the year 2001, and estimating Tobit models, we show the 'consistency' between the patterns of firm diversification and that of the local system in which the firm is located. Specifically, firms located in local systems dominated by…
Ownership as R&D incentive in business groups
Agglomeration, Related Variety, and Vertical Integration
Several recent studies have investigated the relationship between the geographic concentration of production and vertical integration, based on the hypothesis that the spatial agglomeration of firms in the same industry facilitates input procurement, thereby reducing the degree of vertical integration. This article contributes to this debate in two ways: first, we focus on interindustry vertical integration, and second, we consider the effects on…
Spatial agglomeration and business groups: New evidence from Italian industrial districts
Cainelli G., Iacobucci D. and Morganti E. (2006) Spatial agglomeration and business groups: new evidence from Italian industrial districts, Regional Studies 40, 507–518. This paper is a first attempt to analyse the relationship between spatial agglomeration and firms' organizational structures. It takes advantage of a new and large data set at firm and business group level that allows one to analyse the differences in the presence and characteris…
Small Firm Investment and Financing Decisions: An Option Value Approach
Agglomeration, Related Variety, and Vertical Integration
Several recent studies have investigated the relationship between the geographic concentration of production and vertical integration, based on the hypothesis that the spatial agglomeration of firms in the same industry facilitates input procurement, thereby reducing the degree of vertical integration. This article contributes to this debate in two ways: first, we focus on interindustry vertical integration, and second, we consider the effects on…
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: Have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds
This paper evaluates to what extent the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) has changed the allocation of Structural Funds of Italian regions in the programming period 2014–20. Given the novelties introduced by this policy, we expect an increase in the sectoral and technological concentration of funds, a higher share assigned to research and technological development, and a stronger involvement of universities and research centre…
Spatial agglomeration and business groups: New evidence from Italian industrial districts
Cainelli G., Iacobucci D. and Morganti E. (2006) Spatial agglomeration and business groups: new evidence from Italian industrial districts, Regional Studies 40, 507–518. This paper is a first attempt to analyse the relationship between spatial agglomeration and firms' organizational structures. It takes advantage of a new and large data set at firm and business group level that allows one to analyse the differences in the presence and characteris…
Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: A first empirical assessment
Regional technological profiles and collaborations: An empirical analysis of joint patents and EU-funded projects
The aim of this paper is to determine the factors affecting technological collaborations among EU regions, focusing on the role of their technological profiles. We consider the population of EU NUTS2 regions and analyse the inter-regional collaborations in EPO patent applications and in EU projects in the Seventh Framework Programme in the period 2007–2013. We overcome the limitations related to the mono-dimensionality of technological proximity …
Local variety and firm diversification: An evolutionary economic geography perspective
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and how local agglomeration forces-related and unrelated variety-influence firm diversification. Using a large dataset of 5112 Italian manufacturing business groups for the year 2001, and estimating Tobit models, we show the 'consistency' between the patterns of firm diversification and that of the local system in which the firm is located. Specifically, firms located in local systems dominated by…
Small Firm Investment and Financing Decisions: An Option Value Approach
Spatial agglomeration and business groups: New evidence from Italian industrial districts
Cainelli G., Iacobucci D. and Morganti E. (2006) Spatial agglomeration and business groups: new evidence from Italian industrial districts, Regional Studies 40, 507–518. This paper is a first attempt to analyse the relationship between spatial agglomeration and firms' organizational structures. It takes advantage of a new and large data set at firm and business group level that allows one to analyse the differences in the presence and characteris…
Agglomeration, Related Variety, and Vertical Integration
Several recent studies have investigated the relationship between the geographic concentration of production and vertical integration, based on the hypothesis that the spatial agglomeration of firms in the same industry facilitates input procurement, thereby reducing the degree of vertical integration. This article contributes to this debate in two ways: first, we focus on interindustry vertical integration, and second, we consider the effects on…
Ownership as R&D incentive in business groups
Local variety and firm diversification: An evolutionary economic geography perspective
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and how local agglomeration forces-related and unrelated variety-influence firm diversification. Using a large dataset of 5112 Italian manufacturing business groups for the year 2001, and estimating Tobit models, we show the 'consistency' between the patterns of firm diversification and that of the local system in which the firm is located. Specifically, firms located in local systems dominated by…
Agglomeration, networking and the Great Recession
This paper analyzes how and to what extent firms’ external relations, such as belonging to a local cluster or a business group, affect the probability of firm survival and economic performance after the 2008 Great Recession. Using a large data set of Italian manufacturing companies for the period 2005–12, it was found that belonging to a business group or a local cluster mitigates the selection effect determined by the real and financial shocks, …
Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: A first empirical assessment
Small firms and bank financing in bad times
Spatial networking and firms’ organization. The case of Italy
The literature on business groups played a significant role in the debate over the evolution of Italian industrial districts. The diffusion of business groups in industrial districts resulted in a hierarchization of productive relationships and increased output concentration. This paper focusses on the presence and the characteristics of business groups in industrial districts. We assume that there are particular features of business groups that …
Smart Specialisation Strategy in practice: Have regions changed the allocation of Structural Funds
This paper evaluates to what extent the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) has changed the allocation of Structural Funds of Italian regions in the programming period 2014–20. Given the novelties introduced by this policy, we expect an increase in the sectoral and technological concentration of funds, a higher share assigned to research and technological development, and a stronger involvement of universities and research centre…
Innovation performance in traditional industries: Does proximity to universities matter
Firms operating in traditional industries are characterized by low investment in R&D and little capabilities for autonomous innovation. This situation is changing given the increasing relevance of general purpose technologies, such as ICT. As a result, the innovative performance of firms in these sectors should be more dependent on the interaction with firms and institutions outside their production chain. The aim of this paper is to analyze to w…
Regional technological profiles and collaborations: An empirical analysis of joint patents and EU-funded projects
The aim of this paper is to determine the factors affecting technological collaborations among EU regions, focusing on the role of their technological profiles. We consider the population of EU NUTS2 regions and analyse the inter-regional collaborations in EPO patent applications and in EU projects in the Seventh Framework Programme in the period 2007–2013. We overcome the limitations related to the mono-dimensionality of technological proximity …
Industrial doctorates for regional development: The case of Le Marche Region
Regional integration or investment attractiveness? FDI dynamics in the Eusair macro-region
The EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR) aims to foster economic integration and regional cooperation among its member countries. Within this framework, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) represents a key channel through which integration processes materialize. However, the extent to which EUSAIR has effectively reshaped FDI dynamics remains underexplored, particularly in terms of the balance between regional integration and external …
Business (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Industrial organization (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Regional science (5 works) · Economies of agglomeration (4 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works)