The evolution of an innovation policy in a local system of production. The case of the Regional Programme for Industrial Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer
Aim of this thesis is to analyse the evolution of a policy within a
local system of production. We consider policy as standardised
social technologies devoted to the coordination of the physical
technologies of production. In this sense we can compare them to
institutions: arising spontaneously as organic entities for the
development of networks of production and then becoming
pragmatic as formally embedded in laws and norms. To
investigate this process we will employ as case study some
industrial policies developed by Regione Emilia Romagna from
the 1970s to the Regional Programme for Industrial Research,
Innovation and Technology Transfer (PRRIITT) in 2003