Elisa Giuliani

Ivy, diciottenne curiosa e romantica, si è appena trasferita a New York dall’Italia. Alla Denver High School c’è tutto un mondo che deve conoscere. Nuove amicizie, nuovi interessi, nuove abitudini, nonché un’infatuazione nuova di zecca per Tom de Luca, uno dei belli e dannati della scuola, uno di quelli che è abituato a prendersi tutto ciò che vuole, e a non usare la dolcezza con le ragazze. L’attrazione tra i due si fa subito evidente, al di là della loro stessa volontà cosciente. È l’innesco a una serie di vicende che travolgono le vite dei due giovani, portandoli a confrontarsi faccia a faccia con i loro desideri e tutti i dubbi più profondi, alla ricerca di un difficile equilibrio in cui vivere vicini in serenità. Nella famiglia di Tom, infatti, non scorre buon sangue, e si nascondono molti segreti: il potere del denaro può aggiustare ogni cosa e coprire anche i fatti più nefandi. Anche il passato di Ivy, però, ha pagine oscure, storie che sembrerebbero dimenticate e che invece tornano con il loro doloroso carico di incertezza. Tuttavia, con coraggio e determinazione, Ivy si dimostra disposta ad andare a fondo nelle pieghe dei propri sentimenti, lasciandosi scivolare pian piano in quel caos che sembra offuscare i suoi pensieri, per uscirne sicura della verità incontrovertibile che il suo cuore racchiude. Il debutto di una giovanissima autrice è un romance incalzante e ricco di colpi di scena.

Love is color

Alejandro Rodríguez

Carlo Pietrobelli

Alessandro Maffioli

Franco Boneu

David Alfaro Serrano

Gabriel Casaburi

Victoria Castillo

Lucas Figal Garone

David Giuliodori

Andrés Matta

Lucía Pittaluga

Do cluster development programs work? Do they fundamentally encourage the essential inter-firm linkages and coordination? Do they lead to innovation and productivity, enterprise development, larger employment, and export growth, and if so, after how long? Do other firms benefit from these programs? This book offers insight into quantitative methods that help answer these questions. Cluster development is a form of modern industrial policy that is spreading across the world to help exploit the externalities emerging from geographical agglomeration and inter-firm coordination. Therefore, rigorous impact evaluations are necessary because they help policymakers understand better ways to design future programs and provide accountability for public resources. The chapters argue that enterprise clusters and the programs to support them are diverse and multidimensional processes that require a variety of instruments to be fully understood and assessed. The book as a whole gathers various methodological essays and quantitative tests of complementary tools and approaches, emphasizing their usefulness and effectiveness in coordination with one another. Most importantly, it asserts that policy evaluation is crucial, in particular when it comes to cluster development programs, to ensure the best use of public resources, the accountability of beneficiaries, and most of all to feed the necessary learning to improve the design and implementation of public policies for enterprise development.

Methods and Practices

The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs

Andrea Morrison

Roberta Rabellotti

'This book overturns the old paradigm ideas about natural-resource-based activities. It sheds light on the new opportunities for technological dynamism and catching-up by using science to open novel directions in traditional sectors. It should become a classic in what I expect will be a very important academic debate and a new trend in development policy.' - Carlota Perez, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Cambridge University and University of Sussex, UK 'This excellent book provides a deep understanding of why and how emerging countries are able to catch-up and enter international markets in an industry that once was considered as traditional, but which has now become a relatively articulated and sciencebased sectoral system.' - Franco Malerba, KITeS, Bocconi University, Italy 'This excellent book demonstrates better than any other I know the strengths and limits of the concept of a national system of innovation for understanding economic development today. Any careful student of innovation or development will want to read it.' - Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School, US 'In the New World, viticulture and wine production has had to develop with verve and enthusiasm, to be able to survive and to flourish. In countries like Chile and Argentina, the continuing decline of domestic wine consumption has forced technicians and entrepreneurs to conquer the world with innovation and technology, to produce wines of international taste and to attract potential buyers to these markets. This book is a very professional account of these phenomena, which have profoundly changed the marketing of wines in the past 20 years.' - Aurelio Montes, President of Viña Montes, Chile 'This book takes a fresh look at the innovations that have changed the global wine sector, presenting established thinking in a new light. Building on the world's knowledge base in wine production, the book encourages novel thinking for both Old World and New World producers. The content is topical, current and well written. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in wine innovation.' - Sakkie Pretorius, The Australian Wine Research Institute

The Changing Geography of Wine Production

Innovation and Technological Catch-Up

Elisa Giuliani

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