Economic Performance, Inter-Firm Relations and Local Institutional Engineering in a Computational Prototype of Industrial Districts
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2002
Citazione:
Economic Performance, Inter-Firm Relations and Local Institutional Engineering in a Computational Prototype of Industrial Districts / F. Squazzoni, R. Boero. - In: JASSS. - ISSN 1460-7425. - 5:1(2002), pp. 1-25.
Abstract:
Industrial districts can be conceived as complex systems characterised by a network of interactions amongst heterogeneous, localised, functionally, integrated and complementary firms. In a previous paper, we have introduced an industrial district computational prototype, showing that the economic performance of an industrial district proceeds to the form through which firms interact and co-ordinate each others. In this paper, we use such computational framework to experiment different options of local institutional engineering', trying to understand how specific supporting institutions' could perform macro-collective activities, such as, i.e., technology research, transfer and information, improving the technological adaptation of firms. Is a district more than a simple aggregation of localised firms? What can explain the economic performance of firms localised into the same space? Could some options of 'local institutional engineering, improve the performance of a district? Could such options set aside the problem of how firms dynamically interact? These are questions explored in this paper.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
agent-based computational model; industrial districts; local institutional engineering; technological change
Elenco autori:
F. Squazzoni, R. Boero
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