Knowledge, Market Structure, and Economic Coordination: Dynamics of Industrial Districts

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Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian Wine Cluster (2009, background): “Some recent studies on industrial districts (Belussi et al., 2003; Boschma & Lambooy, 2002) have shown the emergence of a similar scenario characterized by a few leading firms, sometimes playing the role of knowledge gatekeepers, through which new ideas enter and reinvigorate the local production…”
Applying social network analysis in economic geography: framing some key analytic issues (2009, background): “…were geographically localized because knowledge networks were assumed to be confined to the boundaries of the cluster: all cluster firms were connected with each other and engaged in interactive learning, and no significant extra-cluster linkages were likely to exist (Boschma and Lambooy 2002).”
Are regional systems greening the economy? Local spillovers, green innovations and firms’ economic performances (2016, background): “…as Italy, where industry is historically structured as a ‘web’ of SMEs, which are often ‘organised’ into districts and that exploit networking and cooperation activities as firm’s resources, enhancing competitiveness through knowledge transfer (Boschma and Lambooy 2002; Beaudry and Breschi 2003).”