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...