In the most recent years, the pattern of economic development of the Italian Mezzogiorno has given signs of a remarkable change in progress. Up to the beginning of the 1990s, the whole area was by and large characterised by a single macroeconomic model of income and employment, whose dynamics...

Within the European arena, the heterogeneity of socio-economic conditions among Italian regions is a clear example of intra-border imbalances. Though, the different degree of development characterising the various areas of Italy is far from being an exception in the Union, where diversity across...

Within the European arena, the heterogeneity of socio-economic conditions among Italian regions is a clear example of intra-border imbalances. Though, the different degree of development characterising the various areas of Italy is far from being an exception in the Union, where diversity across...

In the most recent years, the pattern of economic development of the Italian Mezzogiorno has given signs of a remarkable change in progress. Up to the beginning of the 1990s, the whole area was by and large characterised by a single macroeconomic model of income and employment, whose dynamics...

The current trend towards globalization is posing a substantial challenge to SME clusters to restructure and reach out to distant markets and knowledge sources, while at the same time exploiting the advantages of local factors and agglomeration. This book represents a first attempt to analyze...