The Competitive Advantage of Industrial Districts

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Industrial Districts: Crucial Competitive Factors, Research Activity and Productivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Competitiveness and its Socio-Economic Foundations: Empirical Evidence on the Italian Industrial Districts

      • Carlo Pietrobelli

      Pages 3-19

   3. Geographical Agglomeration in R&D Games: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence

      • Michele Bagella, Leonardo Becchetti

      Pages 21-44

   4. Efficiency and Localisation: the Case of Italian Districts

      • S. Fabiani, G. Pellegrini, E. Romagnano, L. F. Signorini

      Pages 45-69

   5. Do State Subsidies Have a Stronger Impact when Provided to District Firms? An Empirical Analysis on Italian Data

      • Leonardo Becchetti, Stefania P. S. Rossi

      Pages 71-91

3. Industrial Districts and Foreign Competitiveness: Export and Internationalisation Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. The Positive Link Between Geographical Agglomeration and Export Intensity: The Engine of Italian Endogenous Growth?

      • Michele Bagella, Leonardo Becchetti, Simona Sacchi

      Pages 95-126

   3. EU and Non EU Export Performance of Italian Firms. Is There an Industrial District Effect?

      • Leonardo Becchetti, Stefania P. S. Rossi

      Pages 127-148

   4. Industrial Districts, Horizontal and Vertical Integration and Export Performance

      • Simona Sacchi

      Pages 149-163

   5. The District Advantage in Small-Medium Firm Internationalisation

      • Michele Bagella

      Pages 165-174

   6. From SMEs to Industrial Districts in the Process of Internationalisation: Theory and Evidence

      • Michele Bagella, Carlo Pietrobelli

      Pages 175-194

4. Back Matter

   Pages 195-232

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Several interesting results on the economics of industrial districts are collected in this book. The first part investigates over internal determinants of industrial district competitiveness looking at internal productivity, at patterns of innovation and at those factors which create a favorable industrial atmosphere. The second part of the book investigates over foreign competitiveness of industrial districts focusing on the performance of export and of other forms of internationalisation.

• Export
• Industril district
• Räumliche Agglomeration
• firm performance
• geographical agglomeration
• kleine und mittlere Unternehmen
• productivity
• small and medium firms
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Faculty of Economics Department of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

  Michele Bagella, Leonardo Becchetti

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