Italian manufacturing steadily ranks seventh in the world for value added, fourth for production diversification and second for export competitiveness, and has a higher investment rate than its main European competitors, including Germany. However, it is also characterized by a long-lasting weak...

The scope of this paper is to propose a novel approach to the categorization of manufacturing development, aimed at accounting for the major global transformations that have occurred in the organisation of industrial activity in the last decades. It first addresses the way manufacturing...

The paper discusses the relationship between industrial development and structural change in the Age of globalization. It sets within the same theoretical framework the fact that both the sectoral concentration of manufacturing activities and the internal structure of the whole economy do change...