From Industrial Districts to Local Development

The late Giacomo Becattini, formerly Professor of Political Economy, Marco Bellandi, Professor of Applied Economics, Gabi Dei Ottati, Professor of Industrial Economics, University of Florence and Fabio Sforzi, University of Parma, Italy

• Contents: Foreword by Werner Sengenberger Introduction: An Itinerary Part I: The Development of Tuscany: Industrial Districts 1. Industrial Districts in the Development of Tuscany 2. The ‘Tuscan Model’ and Recent Trends 3. The Past in the Present: Prato’s People Part II: Inside the District: Clues for Theoreticians 4. The Governance of Transactions in the Industrial District: The ‘Commodity Market’ 5. The Incentives to Decentralised Creativity in Local Systems of Small Firms 6. Trust, Interlinking Transactions and Credit in the Industrial District 7. On Entrepreneurship, Region and the Constitution of Scale and Scope Economies Part III: Towards Local Development 8. Local Development in the Experience of Italian Industrial Districts 9. Local Governance and Industrial Districts’ Competitive Advantage 10. The Multiple Paths of Local Development 11. Towards a Geographical Redefinition of the Form of the State Index