WORKING PAPER SERIES CLUSTER DYNAMICS AND INNOVATION IN SMEs: THE ROLE OF CULTURE
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___________________________________________________________________________ 3 1. Clusters: a review of existing literature ____________________________________________ 3 1.1 Marshall and the Italian districts ______________________________________________________ 3 1.2 Porter, the GREMI approach and further contributions_____________________________________ 4 2. A Case Study: the Textile District of Aleppo ________________________________________ 6 2.1 Aleppo: an “embryonic” textile cluster _________________________________________________ 6 2.2 IPI proposal for an intervention on the Syrian textile and garment sector_______________________ 6 3. Conclusions and lessons learned _________________________________________________ 9 Acknowledgements________________________________________________________________________ 11 References_______________________________________________________________________________ 11
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