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Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy

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  • Patrizio Bianchi
  • Raffaele Giardino
  • Sandrine Labory
  • Alberto Rinaldi
  • Giovanni Solinas

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Although regional resilience has been widely discussed in recent years, scholars recognise that there is little understanding of the determinants of the long-term adaptive capacity of regions. Policies for regional resilience have not been discussed at great length. This paper analyses industry evolution and industrial policies in a historical perspective, focussing on the case of the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, that in the 1980s drew wide attention as a successful case of flexible specialisation based on industrial districts and has experienced important transformations. It has also consistently implemented industrial policies since the 1980s, and we suggest they had a role in favouring the region’s resilience, especially in terms of the long-term vision of industrial development that this policy provides and promotes through various instruments.

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  • Patrizio Bianchi & Raffaele Giardino & Sandrine Labory & Alberto Rinaldi & Giovanni Solinas, 2024. "Regional resilience: Lessons from a historical analysis of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(8), pages 1983-2007, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:66:y:2024:i:8:p:1983-2007
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1945034
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