Rethinking Clusters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Linking Sustainability, Innovation and Regional Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Unravelling the Sustainable Resilient Region: Exploring Regional Resilience in Sustainable Transition

      • Stefania Oliva, Luciana Lazzeretti

      Pages 3-16

   3. Green Invention as Leverage for Economic Growth in Locally Collaborative European Regions

      • Ivan De Noni, Andrea Ganzaroli, Luigi Orsi

      Pages 17-31

   4. Regional Differences in the Generation of Green Technologies: The Role of Local Recombinant Capabilities and Academic Inventors

      • Gianluca Orsatti, Francesco Quatraro, Alessandra Scandura

      Pages 33-52

   5. Spin-offs, Environmental KIBS and the Role of Universities for Sustainability

      • Eleonora Di Maria, Valentina De Marchi, Elena Bonel

      Pages 53-64

   6. The Role of the DSOs in the Energy Transition Towards Sustainability. A Case Study from Italy

      • Marina Bertolini, Silvia Blasi

      Pages 65-77

3. The Sustainability Turn in Clusters and Industrial Districts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Bioclusters and Sustainable Regional Development

      • Frans L. P. Hermans

      Pages 81-91

   3. Industry Clusters, Intermediary Activities and Sustainable Transitions: A Call for Integration of Multiple Conceptual Frameworks?

      • Rowena Vnuk, Allan O’Connor

      Pages 93-100

   4. Rethinking Clusters in the Sense of Innovation, Inclusion, and Green Growth

      • Iván G. Peyré Tartaruga, Fernanda Queiroz Sperotto

      Pages 101-110

   5. Factors of Environmental Sustainability in Italian Industrial Districts: A Composite Environmental Sustainability Index

      • Marco Bellandi, Maria J. Ruiz-Fuensanta, Erica Santini

      Pages 111-124

   6. The Circular Economy in the Tuscan Fashion Industry: A Value Chain Approach

      • Natalia Faraoni, Tommaso Ferraresi, Sara Turchetti

      Pages 125-139

4. The Sustainability Orientation on Entrepreneurial Actions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. How to Successfully Translate Shared Value Agendas into Action? Evidences from the Case of 21 Invest

      • Fernando G. Alberti, Federica Belfanti

      Pages 143-158

   3. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Between Global North and Global South: The Ashoka Case

      • Edoardo Bega, Luca Mongelli, Francesco Rullani, Silvia Rita Sedita

      Pages 159-173

   4. Social Entrepreneurship: Determinants of Action in Italy

      • Silvia Rita Sedita, Alan Trovò

      Pages 175-193

   5. Environmental Innovations and Green Skills in the Nordic Countries

      • Christian Richter Østergaard, Jacob Rubæk Holm, Eric Iversen, Torben Schubert, Asgeir Skålholt, Markku Sotarauta

      Pages 195-211

   6. The Impact of End-User Aggregation on the Electricity Business Ecosystem: Evidence from Europe

      • Alessandro Barbiero, Silvia Blasi, Jan Marc Schwidtal

      Pages 213-226

5. Back Matter

   Pages 227-237

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This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development. In order to provide the most comprehensive picture of new sources of value creation for sustainable transitions, the book collects contributions that tackle this issue from a variety of perspectives, and adopts a systemic approach where macro, meso and micro-levels of analysis are intertwined in three sections. This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach comes from scholars operating in the fields of planning, economic geography, social entrepreneurship and organizational management. The first section of the book adopts a macro-level approach linking sustainability to the regional development theme, and addresses how organizations work between different social interests to produce outcomes not previously realized. The second section of the book focuses on the spatial dimensions of sustainable development, with particular clusters, industrial districts and regions considered as relevant units of analysis (meso-level analysis). The third section of the book is dedicated to a micro-level approach, illustrating how to drive social entrepreneurship activities, which are based upon sustainable business models centered in the creation of a shared value. The book is geared towards scholars working on sustainable development issues intersecting the disciplines of regional studies, economic geography and management, and will appeal to geographers and researchers in economic development, business innovation, and sustainability transitions.

• Regional development
• Sustainable economics
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Entrepreneurship
• Sustainability transitions
• Green growth
• urban geography and urbanism

• Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  Silvia Rita Sedita, Silvia Blasi

Dr. Silvia Rita Sedita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova, Italy. 

Dr. Silvia Blasi is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padova, Italy. 

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