Camuffo, Arnaldo; Grandinetti, Roberto - In: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 23 (2011) 9-10, pp. 815-852
Adopting a knowledge-based perspective, this study develops a framework of how Italian industrial districts (IDs) operate and evolve as cognitive systems. First, we analyse the mechanisms that facilitate knowledge diffusion across firms within IDs, the enabler of cross-firm knowledge transfer...