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Recent theoretical research on the economic and technological development of European regions is widely based on the concept of the ‘industrial district’. Industrial districts are seen, on the one hand, as innovative units per se and, on the other, as relics of a pre-modern economic system, now out of date in a time of ‘footloose industries’ and a globalised world economy.
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Hülsmann, T., Pohl, J., Rehle, N. (2002). How Culture Determines Regional Economic Trajectories: The Changing Landscape of European Costume Jewellery Production. In: Schätzl, L., Diez, J.R. (eds) Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57467-2_22
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