The concepts of industrial district and cluster have entered our economic daily life language, however they are still characterised by a strong semantic ambiguity. In the last decades also new terminologies have come up to define the episode of local development, characterised by a strong specialisation, like the term of local production system or the industrial milieu. This paper develops a sy...

Dispersion modeling approach was applied for the determination of SO2 and NO2 pollution in the ambient air. The model performance has been evaluated by comparing the measured and predicted concentrations of SO2 and NO2. This has been tested to measure the air quality and predicted incremental value of pollutant’s concentrations by using the data avail...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

Promoting synergy creation of technology in industrial cluster is the key of advancing innovation ability and technology level. The technology innovation of industrial cluster is synergy innovation process, according to the analysis for activities of innovation. And the paper explains the synergy process of cluster innovation activities. The process includes: technological decision and concept ...

This paper studies how firm performance is influenced by the strength of the industrial cluster (or industrial district) in which it is located. The paper presents estimates of firm-level growth models for a range of two-digit industries in the UK. In these models, employment in the firm’s own sector and employment in other sectors is taken as a measure the strength of the cluster. Strong posit...