Regional policies for innovation: the case of technology districts in Italy. Regional Studies.
This paper studies a policy tool implemented in Italy in the last decade to foster local …

In this paper we study a policy tool called technology districts, implemented in Italy over the
last decade to foster local innovation activity. First, we examine the characteristics of …

Research has proved how the industrial district model can deliver sustained economic
growth and sustains firms' competitiveness. Studies have also shown how spatial proximity …

In the last decade regions have increasingly been considered one of the possible and most
effective levels at which defining and implementing innovation policies. In line with this …

The theoretical concepts of industrial district and regional innovation system though closely
related, capture different aspects of regional economic development. Given the “nestedness” …

The Italian manufacturing industry is characterised by a widely known positive 'anomaly':
namely, a system made up of a large number of small-sized firms, many of which are …

A new approach of the innovation policies at the local level is concerning the creation of
regional innovation systems. In Italy however the district level seems to be more adequate …

The literature on regional innovation systems (RIS) has focused so far just on a few
exemplary cases of regions where innovation resulted from systemic interactions between …

Purpose This paper aims to test the existence of the so-called industrial district effect on
innovation (iMID effect) in Spain and Italy and to compare the intensity of this effect between …

The empirical target of this article is two-fold: exploring the variety of regional innovative
patterns in Italy; and assessing whether innovation systems can be found, and how they …