There is no need to read Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter to know that innovation has always been one of the major sources of productivity increase and one of the major engines of growth. Italy needs to find new paths of growths and innovation can play a key role in this. At the condition that we debunk two myths: 1) that being creative is alone sufficient to be innovative; 2) that the ability to innovate of a country depends from the number of its start-up, specifically of those in hi-tech sectors

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Article of Marco Magnani, Aspenia 03.08.2015