The essay focuses on three main topics. The first one concerns the charac-teristics of the model of local development in Italy, based on the industrial districts, and the increasing weight of these districts in the economic sys-tem. Moreover, the evolution and the transformation of the...

The identification of a meaningful correlation between production and infrastructure is not a easy task. This is true for two different reasons: first because data on core infrastructure is very much aggregated both with respect to the spatial distribution and with respect to the various kind of...