Smartspec Thematic Workshop
Sala Seminari, I piano, Palazzo Levi Cases, Via del Santo 22, Padova
Dal 13.11.2015 al 14.11.2015
Industrial districts/clusters and smart specialisation policies
Call for papers for new contributions
Organisers – scientific committee: F. Belussi, SR Sedita, R. Grandinetti, E. Hoffmann (visting, Univ of Brasilia)
SMART SPECIALISATION FOR REGIONAL INNOVATION
Programs
Part I District Life cycles: emergence, consolidation, decline?
Friday 13th November
9.30 F. Belussi The international resilience of Italian industrial districts/clusters (ID/C) between knowledge re-shoring and manufacturing off(near)-shoring
9.50 G. Brunello and M. Langella (University of Verona) Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the 2008 recession. Evidence from Italian industrial districts
10.10 G. Cainelli, A. Fracasso (uni Trento) and G. Vittucci Marzetti (Uni Bicocca, Milano) Natural disasters and firm resilience in Italian industrial districts: the case of the earthquake in the Emilia Romagna region
10.30 Jose Luis Hervas Oliver (Valencia University) Spin-offs in Clusters
10.50 A. Furlan and R. Grandinetti An integrative framework of spinoff-based cluster formation and reproduction
11.10 Café break
11.30 S. Sedita, I. De Noni, L. Pilotti (Milan univ) Out of the crisis. Do the constructs of related variety and differentiated knowledge bases help understanding regional resilience?
11.50 V. Galletto (Departament d’Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona) and R. Boix Domènech (Departament d’Estructura Econòmica, Universitat de València) Industrial districts, technological innovation and I-district effect: A question of volume or value?
Part II District internalization: global supply chains, back-shoring, and home-grown multinationals
14.30 C. Boari (University of Bologna) G. Fioretti (University of Bologna) and V. Odorici (University of Bologna) A Model of Innovation and Knowledge Development Among Geographically Clustered Rival Firms
14.50 V. De Marchi G. Gereffi (Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University, US) and R. Grandinetti Evolutionary trajectories of industrial districts in global value chains
15.10 M.F. Savarese F. Belussi A. Caloffi Industrial districts/Cluster life-cycle in mature industry (footwear) between exhaustion and expansion in Italy-and Turkey
15.30 M. Bettiol, E. Di Maria, M. Chiarvesio (University of Udine), and S. Micelli (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) Manufacturing in global value chains and the role of industrial districts competencies
15.50 E. Hoffman (University of Brasilia, BR) Knowledge transfer among the small businesses of a Brazilian cluster
DINNER
Saturday 14th November
Part III Inter-district knowledge flows and local pressures for upgrading knowledge
9.30 F. X. Molina Morales (Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain) Creativity, network positioning and breath of knowledge in cluster context. Interactions, effects and some evidences.
9.50 I. De Noni et al. (University of Milan) Recombinant knowledge, collective innovations, inventors networks, and knowledge flows among EU regions
10.10 S. Sedita, I. De Noni (Milan univ), L. Orsi (Milan univ), R. Apa Measuring the effects of knowledge accumulation and technological space relatedness on innovation performance of European regions
Caffé Break
Part IV Smart spec policies for districts: University knowledge transfer, key enabling actors and institutional knowledge-intensive business services
11.00 A. Caloffi Regional styles in enterprise and innovation policies
11.20 F. Belussi Smart-spec operationalisation: The Basilicata case
11.40 R. Grandinetti Smart-spec operationalisation: The Veneto case
The aim of this workshop is to analyse the most recent theoretical contributions dedicated to the study of the dynamics industrial districts/cluster, using the perspective of districts/clusters globalisation. The issues put at the attention will be both theoretical and empirical:
1. MNEs growth in industrial districts/clusters
2. The re-organization of the global supply chain and the processes of back-shoring
3. Firms birth and spin-off in industrial districts/clusters
4. The technological transfer from university to firms
5. The adoption of regional smart-spec policies
6. Creativity and innovation in industrial districts/clusters
