Innovation is considered a key variable for determining regional economic resistance. However, a very few studies aiming to determine the existence of a relationship between innovation and regional resilience – in its various dimensions – have been carried out until now. Our paper aims at narrowing the gap in this regard by looking at the ability of ‘resistance’ showed by the Italian provinces (NUTS3 level) in the 2008-2014 recessionary period. Our statistical analysis reveals that innovation, proxied by employment variation rate in high tech sectors, is not clearly associated with ‘resistance’ at the regional level. Other variables such as diversity of regional economic activities, GDP variation rate, population density and geographical location are actually associated with a higher degree of resistance, while related variety shows an inverse and statistically significant correlation.

L’innovazione è considerata una variabile chiave nel determinare la resistenza economica regionale. Tuttavia, sono stati condotti finora pochissimi studi sulla relazione tra innovazione e resilienza regionale nelle sue varie dimensioni. Il nostro paper mira a colmare questa lacuna indagando la capacità di ‘resistere’ alla crisi economico-finanziaria mostrata delle province italiane (NUTS3) nel periodo di recessione economica che va dal 2008 al 2014. La nostra analisi statistica rivela come l’innovazione, misurata in termini di tasso di variazione di individui impiegati nei settori ad alta tecnologia, sia chiaramente non associata alla ‘resistenza’ a livello regionale. Altre variabili come un’elevata diversità di attività economiche a livello regionale, il tasso di variazione del Prodotto Interno Lordo, la densità della popolazione e la posizione geografica sono effettivamente associate ad un più alto grado di resistenza, mentre la related variety mostra una correlazione inversa e statisticamente significativa.

Calignano G, De Siena L (2020). Does innovation drive resilience? The case study of the Italian provinces. RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, 127(3), 31-49 [10.3280/RGI2020-003002].

Does innovation drive resilience? The case study of the Italian provinces

Calignano G
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2020

Abstract

Innovation is considered a key variable for determining regional economic resistance. However, a very few studies aiming to determine the existence of a relationship between innovation and regional resilience – in its various dimensions – have been carried out until now. Our paper aims at narrowing the gap in this regard by looking at the ability of ‘resistance’ showed by the Italian provinces (NUTS3 level) in the 2008-2014 recessionary period. Our statistical analysis reveals that innovation, proxied by employment variation rate in high tech sectors, is not clearly associated with ‘resistance’ at the regional level. Other variables such as diversity of regional economic activities, GDP variation rate, population density and geographical location are actually associated with a higher degree of resistance, while related variety shows an inverse and statistically significant correlation.
2020
Calignano G, De Siena L (2020). Does innovation drive resilience? The case study of the Italian provinces. RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, 127(3), 31-49 [10.3280/RGI2020-003002].
Calignano G; De Siena L
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