Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?

The public and scientific debate regarding the Italian Industry 4.0 policy has so far been captured by incentive-based measures, overshadowing measures to support the dissemination and transfer of knowledge. The "Impresa 4.0 Network", from 2017, aims to create network infrastructures based...

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Main Authors: Gianluca Scarano, Lorenzo Bazzano, Marco Di Gregorio, Gianmaria Luigi Pessina
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Published: Firenze University Press 2025-07-01
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author Gianluca Scarano
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Marco Di Gregorio
Gianmaria Luigi Pessina
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description The public and scientific debate regarding the Italian Industry 4.0 policy has so far been captured by incentive-based measures, overshadowing measures to support the dissemination and transfer of knowledge. The "Impresa 4.0 Network", from 2017, aims to create network infrastructures based on (semi-)public organizations to foster information dissemination and collaboration. In the context of a highly regionalized development model such as the Italian one, it seems reasonable to ask to what extent the composition and structure of formal networks attributable to this policy have entailed a substantial continuity or discontinuity with respect to the peculiarities of a given regional innovation system and may, as a result, vary in relation to the characteristics of a specific local institutional structure. The objective of this contribution is to map the networks formed from the intermediaries identified by the Impresa 4.0 Network project in the regions of Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. Where the choice of these two regions comes from the tradition that identifies limited firm size as a characteristic of north-central regions.  Thanks to the techniques of social network analysis, it was possible to derive some useful evidence for interpreting the territorial configuration of networks, further supported by the documentary analysis regarding the most recent regional policies on the subject. Each region seems to have selected a particular level of intermediaries envisaged by the policy to elaborate a new institutional layer, on which to invest in order to preserve the distinctive features of its regional governance. 
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spelling doaj-art-2083ef282a0d4053a8d9825bf64c67772025-08-20T03:28:21ZengFirenze University PressCambio2239-11182025-07-0110.36253/cambio-16111Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?Gianluca Scarano0Lorenzo BazzanoMarco Di GregorioGianmaria Luigi PessinaUniversity of TurinThe public and scientific debate regarding the Italian Industry 4.0 policy has so far been captured by incentive-based measures, overshadowing measures to support the dissemination and transfer of knowledge. The "Impresa 4.0 Network", from 2017, aims to create network infrastructures based on (semi-)public organizations to foster information dissemination and collaboration. In the context of a highly regionalized development model such as the Italian one, it seems reasonable to ask to what extent the composition and structure of formal networks attributable to this policy have entailed a substantial continuity or discontinuity with respect to the peculiarities of a given regional innovation system and may, as a result, vary in relation to the characteristics of a specific local institutional structure. The objective of this contribution is to map the networks formed from the intermediaries identified by the Impresa 4.0 Network project in the regions of Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. Where the choice of these two regions comes from the tradition that identifies limited firm size as a characteristic of north-central regions.  Thanks to the techniques of social network analysis, it was possible to derive some useful evidence for interpreting the territorial configuration of networks, further supported by the documentary analysis regarding the most recent regional policies on the subject. Each region seems to have selected a particular level of intermediaries envisaged by the policy to elaborate a new institutional layer, on which to invest in order to preserve the distinctive features of its regional governance.  https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16111Industry 4.0SMElocal developmentItalian Regions
spellingShingle Gianluca Scarano
Lorenzo Bazzano
Marco Di Gregorio
Gianmaria Luigi Pessina
Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
Cambio
Industry 4.0
SME
local development
Italian Regions
title Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
title_full Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
title_fullStr Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
title_full_unstemmed Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
title_short Network Impresa 4.0: continuità o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell’innovazione?
title_sort network impresa 4 0 continuita o riconfigurazione dei sistemi regionali dell innovazione
topic Industry 4.0
SME
local development
Italian Regions
url https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16111
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