Agenda

Facing Global Competition: The case of Mechatronics District in the Veneto Region

Seminar held by Monica Plechero

Abstract - The paper investigates the mechatronics industrial district of the Veneto region, key for Industry 4.0 and for pursuing development opportunities related to smart specialization strategies. It shows how firms of a local system can gain competitiveness from different modalities of participation to globalization of innovation processes. Size matters when strategies are related to exploit own innovation in the international markets, but it is not essential for linking to specific external knowledge sources which can sustain the injection of new knowledge into the system and help firms increase their innovation performances.
 

Keywords - Industrial district, innovation, internationalization, global innovation network, mechatronics, Veneto region