of Practice” (CoP) for understanding the dynamics of knowledge creation and sharing in Industrial Districts (IDs). The … repository” of knowledge. The source of the concept of agglomeration of firms in ID is completely different. Anyway, many …, it explains the three main concepts useful for understanding further argumentations: knowledge, ID, CoP. Next, it offers …

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …