During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district
(ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the
reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a
territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of
clusters and IDs has often been limited, considering only the local
dimension of the created business networks. The external links of
these systems have been systematically under-evaluated.
This book offers a deep insight into the evolution of these
systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge
circulation and learning. This means that the access to external
knowledge (information or R&D cooperative research) or to
productive networks (global supply chains) is studied in order to
describe how external knowledge is absorbed and how local clusters
or districts become global systems. It provides a unified approach;
showing that existing capabilities expand when locally embedded
knowledge is combined with accessible external knowledge. In this
view, external knowledge linkages reduce the danger of cognitive
lock-in and over-embeddedness, which may become important obstacles
to local learning and innovation when technological trajectories
and global economic conditions change. A selection of international
experts
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