Cluster Policies and Local Development

Titolo

autore

Francesco Timpano

curatore

Mariacristina Piva

Argomenti

Economia e statistica Economia

Collana

Ricerche. Economia

Formato

Libro

Pagine

224

Pubblicazione

2008

ISBN

9788834314432

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Local policies are becoming more and more important in policy makers’ strategy because they handle specific needs of territories and guarantee a sustainable socio-economic development. With this awareness, the Faculty of Economics of the Università Cattolica of Piacenza has organized the «Cluster Policies and Local Development» seminar (held in Cremona on the 2nd-3rd July 2004). This volume contains revised versions of papers presented at the workshop. The aim is to contribute to the debate related to the role of cluster policies in supporting and enhancing local development. With this focus in mind researchers from all over Europe deal with hot topics such as cluster policies and the ‘inter-sectoral’ dimension of clusters, the relation between clusters and other economic and local networks, the role of cluster policies focused on the adoption of new technologies and concept of cluster-based technology policy. The book is divided into two parts: the first one collects the main research contributions (Cluster theory at work) and, for each one of them, the comments made by the discussants; the second part offers shorter contributions of speakers invited to present their ‘on-the field experiences’ (Cluster policies in practice: some Italian experiences). Overall, this volume might be considered a collection of theoretical and practical cases all related to clusters and cluster policies in more and less advanced and developed areas.

Biografia dell'autore

Francesco Timpano is Professor of Political Economy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Piacenza and he is also the director (since 2003) of the Master program in «Marketing territoriale» (MUMAT). He has written on this topic and he has also been involved in territorial development European projects on industrial clusters’ cooperation. With Vita e Pensiero he has already published: M. Baussola - F. Timpano - E. Ciciotti (eds.), Local Development and Economic Policy: a European Forum (Milano 2005).

Mariacristina Piva is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Piacenza. Her main research topics are in the Economics of innovation field. She has published in various refereed journals.

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