competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they represent a model of success or rather a weak system of production. Thus … that comes out of this investigation is that industrial districts are strongly influenced by institutions, territory, and … also by the social and cultural environment. The second argument regards the competitiveness of this Italian industrial …

When firms enjoy increasing returns in presence of a high rate of innovation, competition may obtain due to the …

Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public policies have been shaped … learned from these examples are rarely transferable elsewhere. The regional innovation systems in peripheral regions, and the … likelihood of their acting as instruments for territorial competitiveness, have rarely been the subjects of discussion. The main …

hypothesis of a winning configuration for the 3rd millenium, that is one based on innovation, organizations and territory. Our …) and aimed at identifying the effects of proximity on innovation and local development; the method was based on interviews … space of innovation at the metropolitan scale. Classification JEL : O18, R30, O30, R12.<np pagenum="836"/> …