Alessia Paccagnini

1 Introduction Innovation, like almost any other firm activity, includes a social dimension: This concept is grounded in the idea that economic relations co-exist with social attributes (Polanyi and MacIver, 1944; Granovetter, 1985; Allen and Katz, 1992; Moehrle et al., 2005).

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