Regional policies for innovation: the case of technology districts in Italy
研究了意大利技术区这一地方创新政策工具，发现南方技术区多但规模小、产业单一，加入技术区的企业原本就更大、更创新、更盈利，但加入后绩效并无显著提升。
Regional policies for innovation: the case of technology districts in Italy. Regional Studies. This paper studies a policy tool implemented in Italy in the last decade to foster local innovation activity called technology districts. First, it examines the characteristics of technology districts and those of the firms within them. Next, it assesses the performance of district firms. The South of Italy has more technology districts, but they are small, poorly sectorially diversified and far from the economic structure of the area. Firms that did join a district had previously been, on average, larger, more innovative and profitable, and show also higher leverage than the others. After the institution of a district the performance of the firms that joined it did not differ significantly from that of similar firms that did not.