Adriana C. Pinate

Gran Sasso Science Institute | GSSI · Social Sciences

This paper offers a novel take on the relationship between migration and regional innovation by analysing the impact of both international and internal migration flows across Italian provinces, by skill level, and on three types of intellectual property rights (IPRs), namely patents, trademarks and design rights. Allowing us to capture innovation b...

This paper analyses the structure of the Italian cultural and creative economy with a focus on peripheral areas. We highlight the patterns of specialization and spatial dependency through employment and firms' data. We build up a novel and never used dataset by collecting data at the most disaggregated territorial unit (NUTS 4) producing a harmoniz...

Lo scopo di questo capitolo è duplice. In primo luogo, descrivere le vocazioni turistiche prevalenti individuate in Sardegna e fare un confronto con le regioni competitor italiane e con la media nazionale. In secondo luogo, incrociare i dati qualitativi della Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) per capire se le priorità di ciascuna regione si inseri...

Theory posits that situations of existential threat will enhance prosociality in general and particularly toward others perceived as belonging to the same group as the individual (parochial altruism). Yet, the global character of the COVID-19 pandemic may blur boundaries between ingroups and outgroups and engage altruism at a broader level. In an o...

Theory posits that in situations of existential threat, selfish motivations will be outweighed by altruistic ones, and cooperation will be parochial. Yet, the global character of the COVID-19 pandemic makes unclear which level of group inclusiveness individuals will privilege. In an online experiment, participants from the U.S. and Italy chose to a...

Theory posits that in situations of existential threat, selfish motivations will be outweighed by altruistic ones, and cooperation will be parochial. Yet, the global character of the COVID-19 pandemic makes unclear which level of group inclusiveness individuals will privilege. In an online experiment, participants from the U.S. and Italy chose to a...

The present study aims to provide additional evidence for the role and importance of related variety in manufacturing in fostering employment growth among Italian provinces (nuts 3) over the period 2001-2011. The focus is on assessing the sectoral specificities by adopting Pavitt's taxonomy. Concerning potential complementarities between manufactur...

This article presents a mixed-methods research in the field of creativity. By making use of experiments and a questionnaire, it analyses how creativity is affected by three factors: i) motivation, ii) individuals' attitudes towards risk and ambiguity and iii) social context. Each one of these factors has been extensively investigated in the theoret...