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The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts

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  1. Fiorenza Belussi
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  2. Giorgio Gottardi
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  3. Enzo Rullani
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Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 29)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  3. The generation and acquisition of knowledge: the cognitive approach to the industrial district mode

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Industrial District (ID) as a cognitive system

      • Enzo Rullani
      Pages 63-87

    3. Why do Ict technologies and the Internet find it hard to spread into industrial districts and favour knowledge exchange?

      • Giorgio Gottardi
      Pages 89-108

    4. Cognitive models, efficiency, and discontinuities in the evolution of Industrial Districts and Local Production Systems

      • Mauro Lombardi
      Pages 109-137

    5. Knowledge creation and codification in Italian Industrial Districts

      • Fiorenza Belussi, Luciano Pilotti
      Pages 139-171

    6. Cognitive economies and the “nature of the district”

      • Margherita Turvani
      Pages 173-194

    7. Paths of local learning and change in vital industrial districts

      • Marco Bellandi
      Pages 195-204

    8. Social identity and identification processes: enriching the theoretical tools to study Industrial Districts

      • Lucio Biggiero, Alessia Sammarra
      Pages 205-231

    9. The industrial district and the “new” Italian economic geography

      • Fabio Sforzi
      Pages 233-244

    10. Behavioural rules in industrial districts: loyalty, trust, and reputation

      • Maurizio Mistri, Stefano Solari
      Pages 245-267

  4. The new design of evolutionary industrial districts: some case studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
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    2. Italian industrial districts: performance and evolution

      • Ivana Paniccia
      Pages 271-312

    3. Is a district possible in the car industry? The case of the Turin area

      • Ronny Bianchi, Aldo Enrietti
      Pages 313-340

    4. The generation of contextual knowledge through communication processes. The case of the packaging machinery industry in the Bologna district

      • Fiorenza Belussi
      Pages 341-365

    5. The Biomedical Valley: structural, relational and cognitive aspects

      • Lucio Biggiero, Alessia Sammarra
      Pages 367-388
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About this book

Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi, and Enzo Rullani This volume collects some papers presented at the Vicenza conference "The Future of Districts", held in June 1999, organised by the Department of Technology and Management of Industrial Systems of the Faculty of Engineering of Padua University, with the collaboration of several engineers, industrial economists, and experts in the issue of technology management. This was the starting point of a long-lasting and painful colIective discussion, the results of which are documented here, during many meetings of this "itinerant" group, including the workshop in Padua, organised by Professor Luciano Pilotti and held in May 2001, "Systems, governance & knowledge within firm networks" at the Department of Economics of the University of Padua, and the recent international research seminar, held in May 2002, in Rome at the Tagliacarne Institute, within the EU sponsored project "Industrial districts' re­ location processes: identifying policies of EU enlargement West-East ID". The reason we decided to organise this book was not only to underline the importance of the industrial district (ID) model as a tool of propulsive local growth in a country like Italy. On the contrary, the idea that moved us was the theoretical dissatisfaction with the way in which the phenomenon of local development and industrial clustering of specific industries was treated in the international approach of the various disciplines.

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From the reviews:

"This edited volume[...]represents a painstaking and intellectually challenging effort to set the record straight on the theoretical treatment of IDs and to stimulate new knowledge-centered theoretical venues for further study of the concept and model. However important this book's overall contribution is, I think that Lucio Biggiero and Alessia Sammarra's Chapter 10 contributes its most important argument and stimulus for new research. It provides the skeleton of a new theoretical perspective, which borrows from social psychology's Social Identity Theory to introduce the concepts of district identity and identification. In sum, this volume represents the latest information and most comprehensive collection of works on the subject of IDs. [...]the book has the potential to become a classic and foundational work required for study and research on IDs and on local and regional development especially in the context of the new economy and the knowledge-based industries." (Aspasia Rigopoulou-Melcher, St. Cloud (Minnesota) State University)

"Industrial Districts (IDs) are evolutionary networks of heterogeneous, functionally integrated, specialized and complementary firms, which are clustered into the same territory and within the same industry. … the book includes a good balance between theoretical contributions and empirical-case studies … . this book is a good example of the fruitfulness of knowledge based theories in understanding the evolution of IDs." (Flaminio Squazzoni, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 15 (4), 2005)

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