Industrial districts: the contemporary debate

Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi and Lisa De Propris

ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, 2011, vol. 2011/3, issue 3, 53-75

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present the main lines of the wide-ranging and decades-long debate on IDs (industrial districts). We look at what the IDs have represented in the past, their current situation, and the challenges and opportunities these face in a socio-economic context that is spurring greater interaction between global and local forces. The paper first outlines a few basic concepts and some of the key findings to emerge from the more recent debate on industrial districts. Through a critical review of selected empirical and theoretical contributions from a growing body of worldwide literature, we identify themes that seem to coincide with the critical nodes of industrial districts, especially at a time when these face challenges as well as opportunities. The paper is presented as a contemporary reflection on such themes in a critical, albeit probably less than objective, way.

Keywords: Distretti industriali; economie esterne; sfide contemporanee dell?innovazione e dell?internazionalizzazione; forme del capitalismo regionale; politiche di sviluppo locale industriale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B10 D24 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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