The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts collects a wide
array of theoretical and empirical contributions on the issue of
industrial districts and gives insights into the complexity of
industrial clustering, which has received growing international
attention in the last decade. The industrial district model has
been acknowledged as a tool of local growth. Using this background,
the contributors deal with the dynamics of economic and social
processes that generate the various possible patterns of evolution
at a local level. The authors analyze districts not just as spatial
concentrations of specific industries but also as organizational
forms that are created throughout an historical process rooted in
the economic and social dimension of a specific place. This is the
basis, they argue, on which activities, skills, knowledge,
innovation, and institutions are settled, and continuously changed,
in reaction to endogenous drifts and exogenous shocks. IDs are
viewed here as densely populated industry-specific organizations
composed of complementary enterprises, territorial identity,
embedded institutions, trust, and social capital. In other words,
the ID "formula" goes back to the idea of an existing "dominant"
industry (or product) specialization in the territory and a close
"community" of people and firms co-located in a small area that is
typically smaller than a province. Starting from the Marshallian
concept of clustering, the book incorporates the more recent
literature on clusters, proposing a distinction among these terms
often used as synonymous.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I provides a
background discussion of the theory of industrial districts,
bringing into the traditional Italian approach the Nordic studies
based on the theory of knowledge-based organizations and the
institutional perspective of the French regulation school. Part II,
the book's core, develops a cognitive approach to the theory of
industrial districts. Part III presents some empirical evidence on
the new evolutionary design of traditional and high-tech industrial
districts localized in Italy and in France.
This volume will be particularly useful as a reference work for
policy makers and as a supplemental text for courses in applied
economics and business, industrial organization, industrial
districts/clusters management, and network economics.
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