Breaking free from the regional carbon trap: analysing the persistence of CO2 emissions in EU regions

Grid resolution requirements for DNS of shock/boundary-layer interactions

Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of shock-boundary-layer interactions (SBLI) is critical for accurate prediction of turbulence, heat transfer, and separation in high-speed flows. One of the main challenges is selecting a grid resolution that properly resolves both pre- and post-interaction states while maintaining computational efficiency. This study systematically examines the impact of grid resolution on DNS accuracy, with particular focus on the post-interaction region, where turbulence l...

Firms’ perceptions of barriers to innovation and resilience: the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia during the crisis

This paper connects the literature on obstacles to innovation to the concept of regional economic resilience by empirically assessing the relationship between the intensity of firms’ engagement in innovative activities and self-reported obstacles to innovation during the unfolding of the latest economic and financial downturn. The analysis is grounded on a unique dataset on firm-level accounting data (CAD) and on information from two waves (2008-10 and 2010-12) of the Community Innovation Sur...

FDI and regional development policy

The transformations in the worldwide division of labour brought about by globalisation and technological change have shown an unintended negative effect, particularly evident in advanced economic systems: uneven spatial distribution of wealth and rising within-country inequality. Although the latter has featured prominently in recent academic and policy debates, in this paper we argue that the relevance of connectivity (here proxied by foreign capital investments, FDI) for regional economic d...