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The industrial district is one of the theoretical concepts by which Italian economic geography has redefined a large part of its scientific and methodological status. The industrial district has asserted itself in Italian economic geography following rediscovery ofMarshallian external economiesand revaluation of theterritoryas territorial society, and ofplaceas the unit of analysis, and classification, of the economy and society. This has come about through recovery of a tradition of geographical analysis long neglected by geographers themselves since the time when economic geography was recast as spatial economics.
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Sforzi, F. (2003). The industrial district and the “new” Italian economic geography. In: Belussi, F., Gottardi, G., Rullani, E. (eds) The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts. Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0393-4_11
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