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Rereading industrial districts through the lens of entrepreneurship

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  • Roberto Grandinetti

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This paper analyzes the link between industrial districts and entrepreneurship, building a bridge between the literature on entrepreneurship and the literature on industrial districts. Drawing a distinction between generic entrepreneurship and selective entrepreneurship leads us to acknowledge that a close association between industrial districts as a whole and entrepreneurship is only well-founded if we are speaking of the generic definition of the latter. Burt's theory of structural holes and its application to industrial districts enables us to identify two different types of industrial district, one featuring a high degree of density or closure (P-clusters), the other a high degree of brokerage or (selective) entrepreneurship (SV-clusters). The framework proposed here also suggests a novel interpretation of the transformations that industrial districts of the first type have undergone under the pressure of globalization.

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  • Roberto Grandinetti, 2019. "Rereading industrial districts through the lens of entrepreneurship," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(10), pages 1959-1977, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:27:y:2019:i:10:p:1959-1977
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1614151
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    1. Simone, Cristina & Barile, Sergio & Grandinetti, Roberto, 2021. "The emergence of new market spaces: Brokerage and firm cognitive endowment," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 457-466.
    2. Roberto Ganau & Roberto Grandinetti, 2022. "La capacit? innovativa delle regioni: riflessioni sul nuovo "triangolo industriale"," ECONOMIA E SOCIET? REGIONALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 0(1), pages 105-125.

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