http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/42695 www.iermb.uab.es/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:06:25 GMT 2012-02-11T22:06:25Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/bitstream/id/34961/ http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/42695 http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/152050 Giacomo Becattini and the Marshall's method. A Schumpeterian approach Joan Trullén The studies of Giacomo Becattini concerning the notion of the "Marshallian industrial district" have led a revolution in the field of economic development around the world. The paper offers an interpretation of the methodology adopted by Becattini. The roots are clearly Marshallian. Becattini proposes a return to the economy as a complex social science that operates in historical time. We adopt a Schumpeterian approach to the method in economic analysis in order to highlight the similarities between the Marshall and Becattini's approach. Finally the paper uses the distinction between logical time, real time and historical time which enable us to study the "localized" economic process in a Becattinian way. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/152050 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87969 Industrial district effects and innovation in the Tuscan shipbuilding industry Luciana Lazzeretti; Francesco Capone The aim of the present work is to investigate innovative processes within a geographical cluster, and thus contribute to the debate on the effects of industrial clusters on innovation capacity. In particular, we would like to ascertain whether the advantages of industrial districts in promoting innovation, as already revealed by literature (diffusion of knowledge, social capital and trust, efficient networking), are also keys to success in the Tuscan shipbuilding industry of pleasure and sporting boats. First, we verify the existence of clusters of shipbuilding in Tuscany, using a specific methodology. Next, in the identified clusters, we analyse three innovative networks financed in a policy to support innovation, and examine whether the typical features of a cluster for promoting innovation are at work, using a questionnaire administered to 71 actors. Finally, we develop a performance analysis of the cluster firms and ascertain whether their different behaviours also lead to different performances. The analysis results show that our case records effects of industrial clustering on innovation capacity, such as the important role given to trust and social capital, the significant worth put in interfirm relations and in each partner’s specific competencies, or even the distinctive performance of firms belonging to a cluster. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87969 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87968 Technological innovation in creative clusters. The case of laser in conservation of artworks in Florence Luciana Lazzeretti; Francesco Capone; Tommaso Cinti The field of laser application to the restoration and cleaning of cultural assets is amongst the most thriving developments of recent times. Ablative laser technological systems are able to clean and protect inestimable works of art subject to atmospheric agents and degradation over time. This new technology, which has been developing for the last forty year, is now available to restorers and has received a significant success all over Europe. An important contribution in the process of laser innovation has been carried out in Florence by local actors belonging to a creative cluster. The objects of the analysis are the genesis of this innovation in this local Florentine context, and the relationships among the main actors who have contributed in it. The study investigates how culture can play a part in the generation of ideas and innovations, and which are the creative environments that can favour it. In this context, the issue of laser technologies for the restoration of cultural heritage has been analysed as a case study in the various paths taken by the Creative Capacity of the Culture (CCC). Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87968 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87967 Why do creative industries cluster? An analysis of the determinants of clustering of creative industries Luciana Lazzeretti; Rafael Boix; Francesco Capone Creative industries tend to concentrate mainly around large- and medium-sized cities, forming creative local production systems. The text analyses the forces behind clustering of creative industries to provide the first empirical explanation of the determinants of creative employment clustering following a multidisciplinary approach based on cultural and creative economics, evolutionary geography and urban economics. A comparative analysis has been performed for Italy and Spain. The results show different patterns of creative employment clustering in both countries. The small role of historical and cultural endowments, the size of the place, the average size of creative industries, the productive diversity and the concentration of human capital and creative class have been found as common factors of clustering in both countries. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87967 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87966 La relevancia empírica de los distritos industriales marshallianos y los sistemas productivos locales manufactureros de gran empresa en España Rafael Boix; Joan Trullén El presente trabajo presenta la revisión de los mapas de distritos industriales y sistemas productivos locales manufactureros de gran empresa de España siguiendo la nueva metodología ISTAT 2006. El artículo presenta la metodología de identificación de sistemas locales de trabajo, distritos industriales, sistemas productivos locales manufactureros de gran empresa y los resultados completos de su aplicación para España. Incluye además los anexos con las asignaciones de los municipios españoles por mercado local de trabajo para el año 2001, los 205 distritos industriales identificados así como sus especializaciones principales, y su equivalente para los 66 sistemas productivos locales manufactureros de gran empresa. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87966 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87965 Metropolitan Areas in Spain and Italy Rafael Boix; Paolo Veneri Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies. However, one of the main problems that occur when adopting metropolitan areas as units of analysis and policy in European countries is the absence of widely accepted standards for identifying them. This severe problem appeared when we tried to perform comparative research between Spain and Italy using metropolitan areas as units of analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify metropolitan areas in Spain and Italy using similar methodologies. The results allow comparing the metropolitan realities of both countries as well as providing the metropolitan units that can be used in subsequent comparative researches. Two methodologies are proposed: the Cheshire-GEMACA methodology (FUR) and an iterative version of the USA-MSA algorithm, particularly adapted to deal with polycentric metropolitan areas (DMA). Both methods show a good approximation to the metropolitan reality and produce very similar results: 75 FUR and 67 DMA in Spain (75% of total population and employment), and 81 FUR and 86 DMA in Italy (70% of total population and employment). Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.recercat.cat:80/handle/2072/87965 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z