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The Industrial District : From Marshall to Becattini
Sforzi, Fabio - 2012
This paper examines how the concept of industrial district, widely recognised as an Italian construct, took shape. It assesses to what extent the concept was tailored to fit the peculiar trait of the Italian economic development, as is claimed by some international authors, and to what extent it...
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Gleaning Becattini’s Thought
Angeli, Liano - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 2
The four volumes of Scritti sulla Toscana (Writings on Tuscany) by Giacomo Becattini span a period of over 50 years. Just as the gleaner gathers the ears of wheat left in the field after reaping, the author has gleaned in the 910 pages of the work some themes representative of the contents: 1....
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Un crocevia di distretti: la realtà economica della provincia di Lucca
Bianchi, Giulia - In: ECONOMIA PUBBLICA XL (2010) 1-6, pp. 157-188
Interest in the «district» form arose, in Italy, in the context of the debate on the role of small businesses in the Italian and international economy, and intensified during the decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when the increasing efficiency of new types of industrialization began...
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What explains India's poor performance in garments exports : evidence from five clusters?
Ray, Saon - 2019
achieved through a cluster. Studies on clusters have shown that some clusters have been able to deepen their inter … clusters. The development of the cluster in India has followed the "top down" approach and the natural process through which …
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La investigación sobre aglomeraciones territoriales de empresas en las publicaciones españolas de Geografía y Economía
Capó-Vicedo, Josep; Martínez-Fernández, Mª Teresa; … - In: EKONOMIAZ 78 (2011) 03, pp. 308-339
In recent decades, regional production patterns are the subject of scientific debate and study by researchers worldwide. However, despite its growing importance, there is a lack of previous literature review work. This gap advises us to perform a content analysis of the academic research done so...
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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra-provincial income inequality have been increasing and their respective contribution to the total income inequality remains relatively stable. Based on a new set of prefectural database...
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Spinoffs and M&A as drivers of spatial clustering : the evolution of the Dutch banking sector in the Amsterdam region in the period 1850-1993
Boschma, Ron; Wenting, Rik - 2010
explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the Amsterdam region. This analysis is based on an unique database of all … for why Amsterdam is the leading banking cluster of the Netherlands. Our analyses demonstrate, among other things, that …
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The influence of academic institutions on regional clusters using the ICT cluster of Waterloo, Ontario as an example
Bechtloff, Katharina - 2012
The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo … universities does not automatically result in the development of an ICT cluster. In the region of Waterloo three academic … Learning - shape and stimulate the regional ICT cluster, which now includes up to 700 stakeholders from global market leaders …
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Desemprego tecnológico: Ricardo, Marx e o caso da indústria de transformação brasileira (1990-2007)
Couto, Joaquim Miguel; Cezar Silvestre, Rodolfo; de … - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 42 (2011) 8, pp. 29-29
Technological unemployment: Ricardo, Marx, and the case of the manufacturing industry in Brazil (1990-2007) The issue of technological unemployment was a cause for concern for two of the greatest thinkers in the field of economic science: David Ricardo and Karl Marx. Both believed that the...
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Society, firm, individual : the striking topicality of Taylor’s “vision of the world”
Solé, Andreu; Maggi, Bruno - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2007
This study highlights the need, in both teaching and research, to come back to the original texts of great authors and to situate each “ vision of the world” in a long term historical perspective.
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