This short extract is part of a wider study into the use of the web for research into the presence and structure of industrial clusters and is concerned here with the discernment of networks of firms and the presence of commonalities of competence amongst firms within the identified networks. The research shows that the information that can be extracted using web based methods is sufficiently i...

In consideration of the fact that production technologies are resources that can be exploited across various industrial sectors, their current and prospective technological properties are likely to face requirements from different target industries. Because these requirements can diverge extremely between industries, a methodology will be proposed that enables to assess the compatibility of div...

The objective of this paper was to verify if the specialization in a given industrial sector generated positive externalities in the Brazilian microregions. Analysis explored whether specialization had a greater impact on employment and wage variation in the microregions than industrial diversity, during the 1990s, when the focus upon specialized agglomerations was reinforced as the way to prom...

We present the concept of sociometabolic regimes and use it to analyze patterns of change in global social metabolism. Sociometabolic regimes represent dynamic equilibria of society– nature interactions and are characterized by typical patterns of material and energy flows (metabolic profiles). From this perspective, industrialization appears as a process of transition from the agrarian to the ...

The purpose this article is to analyze how the firms that are organized in industrial clusters should co-operate for the sustainable practices and operations in the Ecological Economics view. The Ecological Economics theory state that the sustainable development depends on a new paradigm in the form in how the firms organize the system production-consumption. This new paradigm, called by some a...