OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Piedmont, Italy 2009


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The Piedmont area of Italy is one of the top ten manufacturing regions in Europe and enjoys the highest levels of business investment in R&D in Italy. This report reviews how Piedmont’s new regional strategy supports innovation and how its efforts can be improved.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation, Piedmont, Italy 2009


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Piedmont is one of the top ten manufacturing regions in Europe and enjoys the highest levels of business investment in R & D in Italy. Birthplace of the most famous Italian automotive company - Fiat - and home to many heavy engineering and manufacturing firms, the region has long been a central part of the national industrial core. Yet since the early 1970s, the fragility of Piedmont's production system has slowly became evident. This report reviews how Piedmont's new regional strategy supports innovation and how its efforts can be improved.







OECD Regional Development Studies Regional Innovation in Piedmont, Italy From Innovation Environment to Innovation Ecosystem


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To make the most of its longstanding tradition of manufacturing and innovation, Piedmont, Italy, is undertaking a process of industrial transition, the success of which may be linked to an updated approach to its regional innovation policy. This should include promoting technology and non-technology driven innovation, building the innovation competences of micro- and small enterprises in addition to medium and large ones, better connecting regional innovation actors, and ensuring that innovation contributes to the region’s broader development goals such as sustainable regional development.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: 15 Mexican States 2009


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This report reviews how both national and state policies in Mexico can better support regional innovation systems and includes profiles of 15 states.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation Regions and Innovation Policy


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Regions and Innovation Policy addresses the needs of national and regional governments for greater clarity on how to strengthen the innovation capacity of regions.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Catalonia, Spain 2010


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This review of regional innovation assesses how to improve Catalonia's current strategy and actions in order to boost its innovation system through both its own programmes and those of Spain and the European Union.







OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010


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This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision.




Piedmont, Italy


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