Industry is still a key-sector for the economical development of our country but it must challenge new environmental requirements. It is the main purpose of the public innovation policies. The regional and local actors are very often short of methodological frames to comprehend those evolutions...

Having collected some "from the field" data in the Italian region of Veneto, we can put the light on the main factors of efficiency of the italian industrial districts, but also on the main factors of their fragility. Those elements give us some indications about the limits of the notion of...

<italic>L’industrie reste un secteur-clé du développement économique de notre pays, à condition pour elle de relever les défis des nouvelles exigences environnementales. C’est le principal objectif des politiques publiques d’innovation. Les acteurs régionaux et locaux manquent souvent d’un...</italic>