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The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts pp 139–171Cite as

Knowledge creation and codification in Italian Industrial Districts

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The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the various mechanisms of knowledge creation, diffusion, and assimilation which are visible within the Italian local production systems. The term “local production system” adopted in this paper concerns that class of phenomena related to the spatial concentration of specialised industry, often defined in the economic and business literature as: industrial districts, multi-district areas, system-areas, local systems governed by leading networks firms, “clusters”, “milieux innovateurs”, and so on. The paper discusses the evolutionary pattern of tacit and codified knowledge within the institutional complexity of the Italian local systems, where not only firms are active agents in knowledge producing and distributing, but also local institutions contribute to the process of socialisation of information and knowledge.

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Belussi, F., Pilotti, L. (2003). Knowledge creation and codification in Italian Industrial Districts. 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_7

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