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Resilience and the role of arts and culture-based activities in mature industrial districts
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In this article, the authors build on the results of previous research on how industrial districts well-endowed with innovation capabilities fall into decline, and sometimes react against it, and propose a method to reverse the trend.Abstract:
In this paper, we build on the results of previous research on how industrial districts (IDs) well-endowed with innovation capabilities fall into decline, and sometimes react against it. Major chal...read more
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Lock-in or lock-out? How structural properties of knowledge networks affect regional resilience?
TL;DR: It is shown that policies for regional resilience should focus on ex-ante regional diagnosis and targeted interventions on particular missing links, rather than ex-postmyopic applications of policies based on an unconditional increase of network relational density.
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Exploring cultural heritage tourism in rural Newfoundland through the lens of the evolutionary economic geographer
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine rural heritage tourism through the lens of the evolutionary economic geographer, arguing that cultural heritage tourism is a branching-innovating trajectory, and, as such, its evolution may be understood by analyzing the mechanisms (recombination, layering, and conversion) that drive path development.
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Territorial servitization and new local productive configurations: the case of the textile industrial district of Prato
Marco Bellandi,Erica Santini +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a framework for the interpretation of changes in local productive configurability is introduced for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to address territorial servitization in manufacturing systems of SMEs.
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Family Firms as Institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi-centenary shinise in Kyoto:
TL;DR: The authors investigated how multi-centenary family firms in the area of Kyoto collectively known as shinise maintain a high social status in the community and revealed a dark side of high status, by showing how their commitments lock shinise in a position of "benign entrapment" that may impose sacrifices on family members and severe limitations to their personal freedom.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the economic development of cities from the "cultural economy" and "creative industry" perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies, arguing that although they are normally conflated, the first is largely subsidized while the second is highly entrepreneurial hence they actually make very different kinds of contribution to a city's character, attractiveness and competitiveness.
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