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This website has been created as a deliverable of the project financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento (APT). This project is a post–doctoral level project in the field of economics of innovation and new technologies and it will be carried out by Francesco Rentocchini , as leading researcher, and in collaboration with the Department of Economics of the University of Trento. Project's main title is “The Transfer of Knowledge and Human Capital from Public Research Organisations to the Private Sector” (TRACKs) and it will last for 3 years, untill July 2010. The main aim of this website is, not only, to provide the results of the project, in the form of working papers, for circulation into the academic and public administration domain, but also to share all valuable information pertaining the field of economics of innovation and new technologies across an increasing audience. All practical news, web links, news feeds, events, databases and literature will be organised in the dedicated sections. Moreover, it has the ambition to become a place where to share ideas and stay in contact with a series of networks interested in similar issues. The general outline of the website is now briefly sketched with a description for every single section: Project | In this section it can be found a general description of the project, containing relevant information on the scientific content: main research questions, methodological approach and expected results. | | Researcher | Here it is contained a presentation of the leading researcher carrying out the research. Moreover, future collaborators will be added once they take part to the research. | News & Blog
| Important news and highlights pertaining to the themes of the research project will be found in this section. Moreover, here it is contained the personal blog of the researcher with thoughts, impressions, reflections ranging from issues close to the research area to a set of widely different topics (nowadays life, recent events, books, articles, conferences and so on).
| | Links | Links to other websites are contained in this area. Among the others, supporting institutions and other networks dealing with similar topics are diffusely linked. | | Calendar | Here it is presented a calendar reporting a high number of events close to the topic of economics of innovation. Among the others, academic conferences, workshops, seminars, summer schools and specialised methodological courses are presented with all relevant information and links to the organising institution. | | Downloads | A place to find a copy of the whole project, documents, working papers, datasets and all files on the TRACKs project itself. |
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