At the origin of the industrial district: Alfred Marshall and the Cambridge school
追溯了产业集群概念的起源与演变，区分了马歇尔和剑桥学派提出的原始含义与后来被混用的集聚、本地化等概念，有助于理解产业集群的本质。
This paper investigates the origin and evolution of the concept of the industrial district. The idea of industrial district is quite widespread in modern industrial economics and in business studies, with a variety of meanings and typologies. Indeed the real original conceptualisation dates back to Alfred Marshall and the economists of the so-called Cambridge school. Quite often the concept of industrial district is considered as synonymous with agglomeration, localisation and clustering. But, according to the meaning given originally by Marshall, these processes of industry ‘territorialisation’ are quite different from the more ‘compound localisation’ that is the Marshallian industrial district. Therefore, the aim of our contribution is focused on disentangling its original meaning from other subsequent interpretations, referring particularly to the debate on this subject that arose among the economists of the Cambridge School.