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The Industrial District Model

In: External Economies and Cooperation in Industrial Districts

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  • Roberta Rabellotti

    (University of Padua)

Abstract

In the literature, the industrial district model is not presented as an analytical model, but rather as a list of stylized facts useful to organize empirical investigation and to confront it with reality. We propose to define industrial districts in terms of four key elements: (a) a cluster of mainly small and medium enterprises that are spatially concentrated and sectorally specialized (locational and spatial factors); (b) a strong, relatively homogeneous, cultural and social background linking the economic agents and creating a common and widely accepted sometimes explicit but often implicit behavioural code (social and cultural factors); (c) an intense set of backward, forward, horizontal and labour linkages, based both on market and non-market exchanges of goods, services, information and people (organizational and economic factors); (d) a network of public and private local institutions supporting the economic agents in the clusters (institutional and policy factors).

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  • Roberta Rabellotti, 1997. "The Industrial District Model," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: External Economies and Cooperation in Industrial Districts, chapter 3, pages 23-42, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25794-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25794-2_3
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