Publications

The Rethinking Clusters community grows every year, bringing new topics and approaches to discuss clusters and industrial districts. These are some of the outputs and publications developed from the Rethinking Clusters conferences:

Special issue (forthcoming) in Regional Studies on Rethinking regional development under the imperative of environmental and socio-economic sustainability. Guest Editors: Silvia Rita Sedita, Dieter Kogler, Lars Coenen.

Lazzeretti L., Tamane O., Sedita S., Capone F. (2024) (Eds.) Clusters in Times of Uncertainty: Japanese and European Perspectives. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Lazzeretti L., Oliva S., Innocenti N., Capone F. (2023) (Eds.) Rethinking Culture and Creativity in the Digital Transformation. Routledge, London, UK.

Special issue in European Planning Studies on Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and industry 4.0 in firms and Clusters. 2023, Vol. 31, Issue 7. Guest editors: Luciana Lazzeretti, Jose Luis Hervas, Rafael Boix and Niccolò Innocenti.

Special issue in Competitiveness Review on Industrial Districts: towards the future. 2022, Vol. 32, Issue 5. Guest Editors: Jose Luis Hervas and Rafael Boix.

Special Issue in European Planning Studies on Rethinking culture and creativity in the digital trasformation. 2022, Vol. 30, Issue 9. Guest editors: Luciana Lazzeretti, Stefania Oliva, Niccolò Innocenti and Francesco Capone.

Special Issue in Industry and Innovation on Rethinking the role of local knowledge networks in territorial innovation models. 2021, Vol. 28, Issue 7. Guest Editors: Luciana Lazzeretti, Francesco Capone, Tom Broekel and Robert Hassink.

Sedita S. R. and Blasi S. (2021) (Eds.) Rethinking Clusters: Place-based value creation in sustainability transitions, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.

Special Issue in Competitiveness Review on The Effect of Clusters on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Global Value Chains. 2020, Vol. 30, Issue 4. Guest Editors: Roberto Antonietti and Enrico Carlet.


Special Issue in Competitiveness Review on Industry 4.0 in firms, clusters and regions: the new digital imperative. 2021, Vol. 31, Issue 1. Guest Editors: Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Eleonora di Maria and Marco Bettiol.


Lazzeretti L. Capone F., Caloffi A., Sedita S., (2020) (Eds.), Rethinking clusters. Critical issues and new trajectories of cluster research, Routledge.

Special Issue in European Planning Studies on Rethinking clusters. Critical Issues and new trajectories of cluster research. 2019, Vol. 27, Issue 10. Guest editors: Luciana Lazzeretti, Francesco Capone, Annalisa Caloffi and Silvia Rita Sedita.