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Il volume affronta il tema dell'innovazione nelle piccole imprese, in particolare nei sistemi locali di PMI, domandandosi se, di fronte alle sfide della globalizzazione e del progresso tecnologico, la capacità di adattamento tipica delle imprese minori sia sufficiente a mantenere la competitività.

The rich literature on industrial districts leaves little space to the theme of innovation. Italian industrial districts are mainly specialised in traditional industries and the firms which compose them are of small size and then less prepared to manage technological change. Nevertheless innovation could prove in coming years a more and more important challenge to sustain the competitiveness of local systems of small firms in a context of globalisation of markets and of rise of new competitors. The paper starts with a revision of the concept of industrial district, analysing the elements that in the definition can have effects on the innovative capacity of firms. The third paragraph departs from the argument of industrial districts, to explore the grounds on which the spatial variable can have effects on the innovative activity of firm, intended both as the creation of new processes and products, and as the behaviour in terms of adoption of innovations. Finally the fourth paragraph comes back to industrial districts, to explain why and how firms belonging to districts may have special features, if compared to small firms acting in other environments, as regards the creation and adoption of innovation. The last section contains an agenda for future empirical research based on the critical points emerging from theoretical literature.

Il settore orafo è estremamente povero di studi e statistiche descrittive. Per riuscire a ricostruire un quadro statistico completo il capitolo unisce dunque fonti diverse, in grado di esplicitarne il ruolo nell'economia italiana e la struttura interna.

Studio su uno dei settori del sistema moda italiano, realizzato su un approccio che integra macro-dati di settore, con microdati primari e dati di bilancio.

Il triangolo della sedia: cultura ed economia di un'area geografica. Aspetti umani e organizzazione produttiva nel Friuli orientale

Un contributo allo studio geografico dei distretti industriali

Elles furent un des atouts de l'economie italienne. Pourront-elles faie face aux mutations de la concurrence internationale ?

This paper will discuss two fundamental concepts of industrial policy devel-oped by Sebastiano Brusco: the role of real services to support district firms and the role of real services needed to transform groups of isolated firms into systems of firms; and the promotion of widespread changes at the level of knowledge, competences, and social relations. These concepts emphasize both that industrial policies centred on real services can treat the industrial district per se as a key policy target and that local development policies should use the concept of the industrial district as a reference model to iden-tify innovative approaches to policy design and intervention more generally. Thus, when policy making used district planning contracts as a form of support for territorial policies in Southern Italy, the industrial districts themselves became actors of policy making on a national scale. This paper explores this conceptual shift and briefly outlines some changes in the paradigm of research and in the policy framework of the last decade.